Posted on 10/12/2018 8:33:25 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I’ll bet everyone didn’t know the little know secret that the US Navy invented dancing. No it’s true! It did take the Marine Corps to introduce it to women, though.
Happy Birthday to all the Rust Pickers and Swab Jockies out there!
Semper Fi, MarDet USS Ranger, CV-61
I know what you mean. Us Nam vets saw it first hand.
My Dad was an Army O-6... WW II.
We were sent to Cam Rahn Bay to take care of some rocket fire into the Navy Communications facility there. We took care of the problem and had a few free days. The Navy treated us like kings...got us drunk and fed us very well. Lol
So you’re the ones that got our rum rations. Oh, wait. That’s the brits that get that. Thanks for your service.
And thanks for your service.
We lost our WW II USMC uncle a year ago. He had some funny stories about the Marines and their interaction with the Navy during WW II.
since this is the real Columba’s Day I guess the US Navy welcomed him to the Americas.
“But CrazyIvan - I deduce you’re a bubblehead...”
Honorary Bubblehead. See P.M.
Being an LST Sailor when I first joined I served under Capt. Noah aboard the USS Ark LST 1. We made the first Amphib landing.
welcome back!
During the Korean War, the US Navy's arrogance led for a time to such poor relations with US merchant ship crews transiting the Canal that the schedules of essential war cargoes were imperiled. There was much friction because US Navy officers posted as Canal pilots had a tendency to boss around the merchant officers and crews and treat them as inferiors. Sometimes, a merchant ship stopped, ousted the Naval Canal pilot, and refused to move until an acceptable new pilot was provided. The Navy soon noticed that naval officers who were Kings Point grads with merchant marine experience got along well with the merchant crews.
And so, as the country mobilized for the Korean War, the Navy activated my father's reserve commission and sent him to Panama instead of giving him the sea duty he requested. As it was, the Navy probably made the right choice because my father found that even in a USN officer uniform, his merchant marine background meant that his trips piloting merchant ships through the Canal were congenial, with friendly greetings and gossip and generous hospitality for a Kings Point grad with many friends and former shipmates in the merchant marine.
The few problems my father had came from USN captains and admirals who did not like their warship being piloted by a junior lieutenant who was decades younger -- and not an Annapolis grad.
My son now dines in the Goat Locker. Happy birthday USN.
"NO DOGS OR SAILORS ON THE GRASS!"
Thanks, Chode. Much appreciated.
LOL....No Rum. No Lash.
If I didn’t laugh at it, I would grind my teeth down in anger.
look at post #21, no padded bulkheads needed on CVN’s... 8^)
Funny story about those padded bulkheads on CVN’s...they do have them, but they aren’t as useful!
I had a 1st Class who I hung out with, and he was an odd duck, a funny guy. One day, when we weren’t flying, everyone was bored, and he began banging his head against the padded bulkhead while saying “I’m not crazy! I’m not crazy!”
You know how they had those buttons on the padded part, made them look like a padded sofa? Well, one of the buttons had fallen off, and the metal prong that held it on was sticking out, and he sliced his head on it as he banged it.
When the Corpsman asked him how it happened, he said “I was banging my head against the bulkhead while saying I wasn’t crazy...”
heh heh heh heh
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