“Back in the late 70s and 80’s when I was in, there was truly humiliating initiations on my ship that just doesn’t belong in any mans Navy. “
You were on some kind of messed up bucket.
I was on two different ships from 77-81. I even went through an equator crossing, and never saw anything like what you speak of. I don’t doubt it happened, but I’m telling you it wasn’t everywhere.
“I was on two different ships from 77-81. I even went through an equator crossing”
It had nothing to do with an equator crossing. Just newbies coming into G2 Hanger Deck Ordnance. (I was G2 flight deck) The Hanger Deck Weapons group was a bunch of messed up losers - which is why they were never selected to work flight deck. These ordeals were done behind locked doors, not in public like equator crossings.