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'USS Bread and Water': Old and rare punishment loomed over a demoralized crew
www.navytimes.com ^ | 10/10/2017 | By: Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on 10/10/2017 1:12:31 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Snickering Hound

After 8 yrs of Obama I wonder how many good chiefs are left.


41 posted on 10/10/2017 1:45:32 PM PDT by piasa (...)
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To: Red Badger

At least he didn’t bend/break the taxpayers’ warship or kill sailors like several others in recent days. Some people have no sense of proportion about what to get outraged about.


42 posted on 10/10/2017 1:45:58 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Red Badger

Why did he lie about his mother living in a dangerous area? I don’t get it? How would they know he was lying?


43 posted on 10/10/2017 1:46:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: taxcontrol

“...Unless the accused is attached to or embarked in a vessel (in which case he has no right to refuse NJP), he should be told of his right to demand trial by court-martial in lieu of NJP...”

https://www.thebalance.com/nonjudicial-punishment-article-15-3354167


44 posted on 10/10/2017 1:46:38 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Red Badger

He was on a ship, guarding a door for no apparent reason. He was standing and closed his eyes. When he opened them, there was a Captain in his face.


45 posted on 10/10/2017 1:46:38 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: bagster
Situation quiet; the Captain's been put away for the night.
46 posted on 10/10/2017 1:46:39 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Autonomous User
Lt. Keith: Well, he's certainly Navy.

Lt. Keefer: Yeah... so was Captain Bligh.

47 posted on 10/10/2017 1:49:44 PM PDT by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: taxcontrol

No person attached to, or embarked in, a ship may refuse NJP.


48 posted on 10/10/2017 1:52:15 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: AU72

“I remember doing evap watch if your caught for long sea showers”

A lot if vessels are using reverse osmosis now. Sea showers are a thing of the past.

But on the last ship I was assigned to, we we pumping 5k gallons of fresh water overboard every mid watch. When I found that out my sea shower days were over.

I told the other cooks to shower extra long. Nobody likes a dirty cook.


49 posted on 10/10/2017 1:52:23 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: AppyPappy

Could be worse. I’ve read that in the Roman legions the penealty for falling asleep on guard duty was death.


50 posted on 10/10/2017 1:52:39 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Red Badger

Damn, I must be getting old.

I remember it being called ‘pizzz(sic) and punk’


51 posted on 10/10/2017 1:53:05 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: Red Badger

Navy officers really, truly, believe they are some sort of American aristocracy.


52 posted on 10/10/2017 1:53:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: nickcarraway

She was in Chicago?.......................


53 posted on 10/10/2017 1:54:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Beats the heck out of rum, sodomy, and the lash... well maybe not the rum part.


54 posted on 10/10/2017 1:54:25 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: piasa

“Captain on deck!” has real meaning on that ship.

A Marine officer once told me “three days of p*ss and punk” was a great attitude adjuster.


55 posted on 10/10/2017 1:56:12 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Grog...............Rum mixed with water...................hence ‘groggy’....................


56 posted on 10/10/2017 1:57:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: AppyPappy

Sounds like good reason for discipline. Gets across the point: you don’t need to know _why_ you’re guarding a door, just make sure you’re alert enough that you don’t “blink” and unexpectedly find someone in your face.


57 posted on 10/10/2017 1:57:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

If you REALLY want to punish them, make them use a restroom that corresponds to their given sex rather than their gender identify.


58 posted on 10/10/2017 1:57:37 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: Red Badger

What an awful thing to do to good rum.


59 posted on 10/10/2017 1:58:19 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Okay, this article appeared in the Navy Times. There’s one thing in this article that struck me as odd... I can’t ever recall the Navy having a “ships secretary” on board, this is the Navy times right? WTF is a ships secretary?


60 posted on 10/10/2017 1:59:16 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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