[Kartographer]

“For twenty years, this sailor has stood the watch,” and that ends with the line: “Shipmate you stand relieved, we have the watch” along with the command “Boatswain ... Standby to pipe the side, shipmate’s going ashore.”

[dsc]

Dear God in Heaven, help my Navy, I beg.

Baron Bodissey wrote, “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” (Political Correctness—The Revenge of Marxism, Gates of Vienna)

I hope I may never see the humiliating evil of a woman wearing a Naval officer’s sword.

[chajin]

Another sworded affair.

[Thunder 6]

I thought the traditions were: “Rum, sodomy and the lash”?

rivalry regards,

retired Army guy ;)

[SimpleJack]

Only tradition I remember as an enlisted person was to “pin the crow” on your arm when you made petty officer 3rd class. Some joker would always take the opportunity to knock you into the next room.