And when the dogface soldiers of the 3ID see a group of SEALs or EOD guys living like "McHales Navy" with improvised showers, a bar, ten times the water per man, etc etc etc, how do you think that affects morale in the 3ID?
Like CRAP is how it affects morale! Almost as bad as delivering a message to a staff officer's trailer, and feeling that blast of A/C, and seeing their TV and fridge.
ARGGGHHHH!!!!! People here DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!!!!!
That reminds me of standing .50 cal watch on the bridgewing in the gulf (91-92) listening to the Captain use the "emergency/you wife just drowned your kids and your mom needs to know how to make your car payment cell phone" to talk to his wife. every night when the sun was going down.
I always knew when we were going to make a course change. It always followed his call dropping and then a few curse words. "Come to port and make a new heading... (180 degrees the other way."
I swear that man could smell when the atmospherics were ripe to get a signal all the way to Bahrain.
If I hadn't had no respect for him already (he would get all crybaby/blubbery whenever speaking to us on the 1MC about our completing an evolution well.
I much preferred the "hard partying" Mustang I had on my first ship. He actually blew out his ACL playing basketball in Rota (our first stop on our Med deployment) and could have bailed out but just lived out of his at sea cabin for the duration. Oh, and he lubed up liberally at every port call. 22 port calls in 19 different cities during the cruise. I saved not one dime that six months. Thank you NATO task force!
Oh those f&*king d^&ks.... I've seen the same kind of thing--a sailor/soldier would get a reprimand ruining his/her career for e-mailing his/her spouse in the hospital--while the G#da*&ed ranking officers will spare no effort or expense of the government to talk to Mrs. Pogue Rankingofficer. I hated it--it was rampant, ruined morale and made every officer look bad...