Posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:48 PM PST by Billie
Please don't make FReD an entre.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Think Ensigns should be seen and not heard and never ever be allowed to read books on leadership.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Don't have any civilian clothes.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Don't remember when they were not a Chief.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Favorite national holiday is CPO Initiation.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Favorite food is shipboard SOS for breakfast.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Don't know how to tell civilian time.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Call each other "Chief."
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Dream in Navy Blue, White, Haze Gray and occasionally khaki.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Get tears in their eyes when the "Chief" dies in the movie "Operation Pacific."
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Can find their way to the CPO Club while blindfolded on fifteen different Navy bases.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Don't order supplies, they swap for them.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Favorite quote is from the movie Ben Hur, "We keep you alive to serve this ship."
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Think excessive modesty is their only fault.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Know that the black tar in their coffee cup makes the coffee taste better.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Idea of heaven: Three good PO1's and a Division Officer who does what he is told.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Think John Wayne would have made a good Chief if he had not gone soft and made all those Marine movies.
REAL NAVY CHIEFS - Use the term "Good Training" to describe any unpleasant task. Scraping the sides of the ship is "Good Training". Having to sleep on your seabag in the parking lot because there was no room in the barracks is "Good Training".
I know can you believe it????
Welcome aboard, REAL NAVY CHIEF! Thank you for your service.
Pour one more for me!!! Margaritas are my favorite.
U.S. special forces troops ride horseback as they work with members of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom on November 12, 2001. Picture released November 16, 2001. (Dept. of Defense via Reuters )
I made this 3' X 6' banner with paint pens and markers Sept 22 so I could bring it to the Titans - Jaguars game in Jacksonville, Sept 23, 2001. That was to be the first NFL gameday since the cowards attacked America on Sept 11th.
I wanted to encourage my fellow citizens, at the game and those watching on TV, and to send a message to all terrorists that Americans are NOT afraid of them. The cameras at the stadium put the banner up on the "Jumbotron" screen and the whole stadium cheered!
Since then it has hung above my front door, lighted by my porch light every night. My neighbor told me the other evening how much he looked forward to walking his dog and looking at the banner every night. He said he feels very proud to see Lady Liberty and read those words, "Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE".
I think I will keep it there till this War on Terror is won.
Keep the faith and hold your head up high!
Norb
Hahaha! Jealousy will get you nowhere..:))) LOLOL
I LOVED SOS!!!
I'm a 54 year old Viet Nam Vet. I was a 101st Airborne Ranger in that war. It wasn't "pleasant" for a young man of 18 years old, but it had to be done. There are a number of ways to become a man. You hold your child in your hands, that makes you a man, you work, in college, to make a future for you and your family. Or, you go to war! I had little choices to me at the time. So, I went to war. I knew that, if I made it, I could get my education, I knew that this would make me a man, but I knew it would take courage, and strength. I didn't even know what those things were. I knew that John Wayne could kill the enemy with a shoulder wound. I saw it at the Paramount Theater, it must be true!
Just kill the enemy, come back home and go to college. Become a doctor and forget the things that got you there. That's not possible!
Truer words were never spoken!
I can get 'seasick' watching the horizon tilt on a television screen film!!
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