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May we reserve one of the rooms in the canteen for Navy Chiefs and their guests tonight?

Real Navy Chiefs...

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".