Humor for my Navy and Marine friends

CheeSlayer.
Slicer.
Killer.
Cheese Reaper.

🤣🤣🤣 I love call sign stories.
 
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Shipboard steak and lobster has usually been in the freezer for a long time waiting for the deployment to be extended or brought on especially for the event. Either way, I never saw it look this good. It is usually freezer burned. Steak and lobster is also served with table cloths and fancy garnishes on the mess decks when the SMI inspection team is aboard. (Supply Management Inspection) The inspectors know the show is for them and the crew gets a good laugh out of it but the quality of the chow does get better for at least a week.
 
We no longer have BTs, boiler technicians, but they were considered to have the toughest job on the ship. We still have twidgets of course. The true definition of twidget includes the ratings of OS, ET, EW, FT, etc. which either fix or operate or do both on electronic equipment. Of course most hole snipes consider any sailor who doesn’t work in the main spaces to be a twidget.
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Boat?
Thought the Navy moved about on ships?
The Navy has ships AND boats.

By longtime traditional usage in the USN, submarines have always been referred to as "boats". In a similar vein, although not as longtime, Aircraft Carriers have long been referred to as "boats" as well and the term appears to have become pretty widespread.
 
The Navy has ships AND boats.

By longtime traditional usage in the USN, submarines have always been referred to as "boats". In a similar vein, although not as longtime, Aircraft Carriers have long been referred to as "boats" as well and the term appears to have become pretty widespread.
I was going to say the same but somehow got caught up in work. I was stationed at the clinic at NAS Cecil Field, RIP, in the middle 90s and all the airdales called the largest warships in the world "The Boat."

Me: Where's your health record? ABH2 Wilson: It's still on the boat.

Hotshot Hornet pilot: "I need an up chit." Me: Where's your flight surgeon? "He's still on the boat." Me: umm, where's your airplane and why do you need an up chit?"

Here's my favorite: Me on the phone: Your flight surgeon isn't here. He said he would be at the squadron. Squadron XO in a loud voice to me in my clinic: "This IS the squadron and he ain't here." Me: Not my problem XO, he works for you, not me. Click

I know the last dialogue didn't mention "The Boat" but as a non-aviation, surface and FMF HMC on a master jet base, I collected at least a chapter full of stories. Most pilots were cool and all our flight surgeons were top notch but there's a time and place to display one's arrogance. I know most of them earned that arrogance but so did I.

The coolest pilot while I was there was the base CO. A stud named Sam Houston. yep, Sam Houston.
 
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