Posted on 05/16/2010 9:58:23 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
LOL ...
Good to read for anybody, though ... just to give an idea ...
Been there, done that. 3 Westpacs and a couple of shorter cruises.
I can tell you there were huge differences being at sea as a Marine vs Sailor.
More rack space and lockers, MUCH better waterhours...and we ALWAYS went to the front of the chow line.
The poor jarheads spent their entire cruise in the friggin' chow line:)
But let me testify, those were great days, those days at sea.
Sounds like somebody just got back from deployment. Thank God we’ve got a Navy. AND, the Navy has a safety record in operation that all private industry is envious of. Of course, equaling it would require breaking down lawn mowers once a week and standing behind a podium for four hour intervals, and nobody’s going to do that.
One nite after air ops, Just as 2 ETs completed their Radar antenna repair and let out a whoop n holler, some sailor threw a bag of trash overboard. Well the fantail watch reported man overboard. I don’t know how many hours we circled in that fog, searchlights blazing, until every man was accounted for.
It is the reason my husband took his commission in the Marine Corps instead of the Navy,
As an Air Force puke I cannot relate to most of these items (except the general military silliness) but I do extend my thanks to those of you who endured (and continue to endure) it as well as the Army and the Marines.
I consider my service to have been an honor and I hold in highest respect those who also serve.
God bless them all!
there aint no simulating 50’ seas off Hokkaido. Washing footprints off the bulkheads afterwards was always a hoot!!
“The list is eerily accurate, and while I enjoyed my Naval service, I do not miss it.”
Agreed. I’m glad for the experience but wouldn’t want to do it again!
were you a navy nuke? I was.
No, all the recruiters tried to push that one, and this ended up being the running joke among all those who were nukes I talked to to see if what I wanted to do.
Curtains? Must have been in Officers country.
Yeah, that’s about right.
“No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.” - Samuel Johnson
No, all the recruiters tried to push that one, and this ended up being the running joke among all those who were nukes I talked to to see if what I wanted to do.
Please, could you tell me why the recruiters wanted to use this as a recruiting enticement? Was it a common tactic? Any specific audience? Thanks.
(bear in mind, this was during the Clintoon era (circa 93) but what they were using as a carrot was the reenlistment bonuses. I had several friends who had already signed up who were complaining about these carrots suddenly disappearing.
Navy Nuke?
ha, ha
I was navy nuke WASTE.
I washed out about 3/4 of the way at NNPS in Orlando in 1984.
I went to the fleet as an A-Ganger and I got my A/C&R nec while on a tin can out of San Diego.
I did too...the first hitch. After 4 years+ as a civilian,I succumbed and gave them 26 years total.
This list is pretty good,but somewhat dated...I mean,how many present day active duty sailors could even find a butt kit today??
40) replace half the lights in your house with red bulbs and wire these lights to work when the white lights are turned off, turn the white light off at sunset and on at sunrise. Put curtains on the front and back doors.
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