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To: ransomnote
Bonjour y'all! Laissez le bon Trump rouler!!!

Know your Nautical terminology

jack dusty
A naval stores clerk.

The duty storekeeper, now Logistics Specialist, is known as the "Jack-o-the-dust".

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

100 posted on 08/09/2021 10:19:44 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm
The duty storekeeper, now Logistics Specialist, is known as the "Jack-o-the-dust".

Odd.

We always called 'em "Skivvy Stackers".

(Sounds as if all of the Old School rates have either been transfigured into bureaucratic gobbledegook or, in my case, taken over by GS-12's and then disestablished.)

156 posted on 08/09/2021 1:01:19 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.)
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