[AtomicBuffaloWings]

In the Army. You wouldn't have qualified as a mess cook in the Navy.

Given his fascination with one or two certain topics and the obsessive compulsive refrences to waste in most of his posts, he probably summarily dismissed the Navy as an option when he learned 'working on the poop deck' did not mean what he thought it did.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

...probably summarily dismissed the Navy as an option when he learned 'working on the poop deck' did not mean what he thought it did.