“As I was a-walking down Paradise Street, T’me!
A handsome young damsol I happened to meet,
Give me some room to blow the man down!”
“I took this fair maid for a walk,
Mark well what I do say.
I gave her some gin and didn’t she talk...”
“She was a nice girl, a proper girl, but one of the rovin’ kind!”
Enlisted men on Liberty were always allowed a certain … licence. Officers were expected to make more discreet arrangements. The Commander was not discreet.
I’ll just speak for me In the 1970’s. (MM1SS). In Spain the Spanish sailors got paid less than a third what I got. The working girls went home with our money and the Spanish boys money. They new the score and so did we. This CO spent money partying with some crap shipmates. One of the rules of submarines. I surface we all surface. You don’t have to like the guy next to you but you gotta pray he does his job right.