“They’d even ask tourists to go below and fetch a bucket of ‘live steam’ for coffee and describe the techniques of greasing the Relative Bearing.”
You could always set them up with a set of sound-powered phones, and post them as the “Mail Bouy Watch”....I have pictures somewhere of one poor slob we convinced to do that onboard USS Ike; he stood in the driving rain for four hours, because we quizzed him on his General Orders before we posted him, and he was scared to death he would miss that bouy...
a favorite of mine..”hey booter, go to the forward bosun’s locker and get some height line.”