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HUMOR BREAK: How to Simulate shipboard life at Home- Must Read
VA-145 web site ^ | 11/02/2001 | unknown

Posted on 11/02/2001 12:21:37 AM PST by connectthedots

For the U.S. Navy veterans and those who want to know what life aboard a Navy ship would be like, Push this puppy


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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
We went a bit beyond that. Was on USS Wiltsie (DD 716) in the early 60s as OOD and were (thanks to a new Airdale Group Commander) passing through the same typhoon on the third run of an eventual seven. Every time we were in a following sea and fairly stable (just a little corkscrew rolling and pitching) we would get continuous calls from the Group Cdr on how we were riding. But when we changed course to ride in the troughs, not a peep. It was during one of these that we took the roll. Nothing more exhilerating than to get over to the end of it and hang there for what seems a few hours but is only seconds.

Never forget looking up from the bridge at the tops of the waves around us. Wedged myself between the wing bridge pelorus and bulkhead so I would stay with the living. I recently visited the JP Kennedy and wondered how I ever fit in there. Course that was 40 less pounds and 40 more years ago. Would not trade those years for anything.

41 posted on 11/02/2001 3:16:23 AM PST by beekeeper
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To: soxfan
Only if the bread is more than 3 days old, of course, and hard enough to shingle a house with.

Another military acronym and a part of at sea life that is instantly recognizable to any sailor - officer or enlisted -who ever did a sea tour is PCOD, pronounced pee-cod. Those who know what it means, I can see you smiling!

42 posted on 11/02/2001 3:17:28 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
…recognizable to any sailor - officer or enlisted -who ever did a sea tour is PCOD, pronounced pee-cod. Those who know what it means, I can see you smiling!

Gee, I never heard that term before. Could you decipher the acronym for me? (**BIG SMILE**)

43 posted on 11/02/2001 3:24:10 AM PST by Scuttlebutt
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To: Scuttlebutt
I was an officer and a gentleman by act of congress. I will leave the definition to others. It is not fit for mixed company and there might be some Army pukes lurking around who might be offended, once you explained the 'P' word to them.
44 posted on 11/02/2001 3:28:14 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: exnavy
That brought back memories of a two week cruise to Gitmo I was on in the 60s.

After four years in the USAF for some reason I joined the USNR.

Just before the cruise some old salt told me: "Jimmy, grab the top bunk as your first order of business."

I got the top of 5 bunks in a section of the USS Purdy which was older than I was at the time.

Good advice....the guy in number 4 puked all the way to San Juan on the three swabbies below him!

45 posted on 11/02/2001 3:33:01 AM PST by JimVT
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To: connectthedots

Remember if you wern't GATOR NAVY You are extremely fortunate not to have to ride on something with a flat bottom, and guns that only fire sideways


46 posted on 11/02/2001 4:03:11 AM PST by SERE_DOC
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To: dbbeebs
"I like to fill the tub with water, turn on the shower, and pretend I'm in a submarine that's been hit."

How do you get the water that cold?

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

47 posted on 11/02/2001 4:14:27 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: 12B
Uh, I don't get it.
Army guy

One of the closest equivalents for an Army guy is painting rocks.
Or shining your boots before hiking through 20 miles of mud. When you get back you have to shine your boots again before you can hit the rack (sack).

We have an Army captain on loan to us for a year. I tease him about the Camping business and he gives me grief about the Marina business.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

48 posted on 11/02/2001 4:21:17 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: connectthedots
as a former submariner you also need to store all your food in the shower, and stack boxes every where on the floor so that you have to walk hunched over. And you need to store all garbage in the fridge.
50 posted on 11/02/2001 4:31:49 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Scuttlebutt; Non-Sequitur
Gee, I never heard that term before. Could you decipher the acronym for me? (**BIG SMILE**)

Look it up in the DICNAVAB. ;-)

WETSU, y'all!

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

51 posted on 11/02/2001 4:36:46 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: OkieGrit2
"extremely heavy weather(ie. on a "T" anything over a six foot swell)."

and that's tied-up pier side!

52 posted on 11/02/2001 4:39:32 AM PST by SERE_DOC
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To: LoanPalm
" Look it up in the DICNAVAB. ;-) … WETSU, y'all!"

My copy of DICNAVAB has expired since I retired. I tried to submit a request for an update but I couldn't find the right address in the SNDL. Somehow, I doubt if the definition of PCOD or WETSU would be listed there. ;-)

TINS, y'all!

55 posted on 11/02/2001 5:04:25 AM PST by Scuttlebutt
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To: Scuttlebutt
My copy of the DICNAVAB, 1982, (I have it right here.) lists PCOD as Permanent Change of Duty. That's about all that's safe to type.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

56 posted on 11/02/2001 5:17:02 AM PST by LonePalm
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To: LoanPalm; Non-Sequitur
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I never would have guessed that the official definition was "Permanent Change of Duty".

Since I was neither an officer nor a gentleman, I was never privy to the refined definitions being circulated in the wardroom. We had a completely different interpretation down in the Chief's mess. ;-)

57 posted on 11/02/2001 5:32:49 AM PST by Scuttlebutt
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Thanks, Tonkin.
I needed a laugh break this morning.
58 posted on 11/02/2001 5:37:41 AM PST by COB1
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Excellent! Thanks for thinkin' of me.
It's a keeper.
59 posted on 11/02/2001 5:40:25 AM PST by fone
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To: Scuttlebutt
Since I was neither an officer nor a gentleman, I was never privy to the refined definitions being circulated in the wardroom. We had a completely different interpretation down in the Chief's mess. ;-)

Thanks Chief. Just for grins, no one in our wardroom ever referred to PCOD as "Permanent Change of Duty" either.

I will 'gar-ON-tee' you that our XO never would. Just be glad I never mentioned BOHICA. That was one of the XO's favorites.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LoanPalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

60 posted on 11/02/2001 5:53:38 AM PST by LonePalm
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