HUMOR BREAK: How to Simulate shipboard life at Home- Must Read

VA-145 web site ^ | 11/02/2001 | unknown

[RnMomof7]

BUMP

[connectthedots]

Afternoon bump for Humor

[Gumlegs]

That's the part I remember.

[Nitro]

You got me by one, but with 2 Med cruises, a Northern Wedding and nearly 3 months at GTMO I had plenty of sea time!!

[Non-Sequitur]

On the plus side, imagine you are on a destroyer standing an underway OOD watch on a sunny summer day in the Caribbean. You're steaming independently, knocking off 24 knots or so. Wind is abeam at about 15. Sea state is about 3 so you're rolling just a little bit. The captain is below and you look around and know that you are in charge of driving this thing and there is no better, more satisfying feeling in the world. I truly miss it some times.

[exDemMom]

Aww, sniff, sniff, sniff, the memories... Of course, with my little problem (I'm female), they never sent me on board a ship, but the powers-that-be assigned me to the next best thing, a windowless building. I never knew what time of day or night it was.

I guess my retired Navy chief husband failed to communicate the true horrors of the Navy to our son...poor misguided kid is in boot camp now, and he's opted for sub duty (we're still shocked).

[185JHP]

Thanks for the ping. The best shipboard life I got into was on the Oklahoma City when it was the Flagship of TF77. On Fridays, they had cloth tablecloths and a band playing at the evening meal. The teak deck stuff was neat too. FReegards

[okie01]

Thanks for the thread. Even a dryland Okie can get a kick out of it.

Especially if his dad was a Seabee...

[RaceBannon]

Yeah, long as it's week 3 at sea or later, so you have your sea legs again!

[RandallFlagg]

USS BOXER?!?!

I was right next to you on pier13!!

One thing I'll miss was the GREAT fishing outta the welldeck!

Plus, when the Marines onboard were assigned to the mess decks, you'd be guaranteed a decent pizza. I remember many navy cooks complain about them having to go to school to learn how to fu*k up perfectly good food.

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"chicken and rice"

it took me years before I would eat eggs after I got out.
them there green looking powdered eggs really did me in, LOL

[Non-Sequitur]

You have to understand that there is a method to the madness at the Cooks 'A' school. Those that graduate in top half of the class cook for the officers. Those who graduate in the bottom half of the class cook for the enlisted. Those who fail the class stay on as instructors.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Those who fail the class stay on as instructors."

LOL!

[RandallFlagg]

Well, THAT educational strategy didn't seem to work out too well. The best food you will ever find on a ship (Mine, anyway) is in the Chief's Mess.
Steak and lobster every Friday night! MMMMmmmmm!

[Non-Sequitur]

Well of course it is. The CPO in charge of the cooks is part of the mess. The CPO in charge of the storekeepers is part of the mess. You think that they are going to deny the Goatlocker anything?

[mitch5501]

The only thing I know about this sort of life is from what I've seen in movies...ie:I don't have the foggiest notion.

But it sure sounded funny...I expect it was being pushed a little...or was it?

God bless and thanks for the laugh

[Colt .45]

"But it sure sounded funny...I expect it was being pushed a little...or was it?"

Unfortunately ... it isn't.

[Colt .45]

Don't forget the "Roast Beast" roast beef, and the Lemon fried fish day in and day out. I think the mess cook's cook book has 6 recipies in it ... one for each day of the week. And yes, there was a long time where I wouldn't eat chicken. We called it "yard bird" or "barnyard pimp". Remember the cold cuts? "Horsecock" and cheese sandwiches. Or there were times when you'd be late to chow and all that was left was PB&J sandwiches .... YUM YUM, the staple food of the Navy (aside from rice).

[connectthedots]

NAS Quonset Point, RI was the original home of the SesBees, where the Quonset Hut was invented.