>>You’ve never been a guest on a U.S. Navy boat then (Marines can call ‘em boats).
No. I’ve never been a “guest”. But I did serve on boats for several years. They were submarines, so we called them boats too. On a boat full of Navy only, the rumor mill always had a kernel of fact at the core.
On a boat full of Navy only, the rumor mill always had a kernel of fact at the core.
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Start a “juicy” bit of scuttlebutt at morning mess and see how ‘accurate’ it was when it came around later.
Start a line at any secured hatch (under a ladder way was good) and let it be known that a gedunk for Cokes, beer, snickers, etc. was going in say 20 minutes and slip away once the line was well-formed.
Good times under duress......
“On a boat full of Navy only, the rumor mill always had a kernel of fact at the core.”
That must be why the Saudi Government gave each of us 10,000 dollars ,,, Aussie supermodels grabbed me as I stepped off the gangplank wanting me to screw them for two days, happy not to know my name,,, and why we went helocasting from a C-130 ramp at 80 knots and 30 feet.
Scuttlebutt had some truly fantastic stories, not always based on a kernel of truth.