> Good gouge -- take PE first thing in the morning. Doesn't stink so bad. (Key words...so bad; they headgear we used was probably in use when OldRetSWO was a MIDN)
That happens -- I can recite "Why didn't you say Sir..." 40 years after graduation. (I think its the only thing I still remember from Plebe rates, but its hard wired into my brain, and I really don't ever recall forgetting to say sir ...)
Just checked DD’s white works belt buckle, which she bequeathed to me after plebe summer. I can confirm that indeed “fidelity is up and obedience is down.” Unless I’m holding it wrong.
Getting to keep it is a new thing. For many years, that belt and belt buckle were part of the rifle and bayonet issue and the mids did not "own" them, they just had to keep them clean and shiny.Just checked DD’s white works belt buckle, which she bequeathed to me after plebe summer. I can confirm that indeed “fidelity is up and obedience is down.” Unless I’m holding it wrong.
I still have "how's the cow?" and "how long have you been in the Navy?" and I'd probably recognize other rates if someone started them out. Sprout (11 yesterday!) thinks they're hilarious. The "salt thing" escapes me.
DH notes they used to be called “Tea Fights.” I believe that particular practice is several years gone.
Those that experienced it know and probably still fear THE CURTAIN !
).Yep, that's how I remember it: absolute mayhem. That and not knowing about first class ladders: oopsie daisy!
I had a command master chief who told people he had been in the navy so long he was at the pier with his seabag waiting for the water to come in. He spent 10 years on that ship.How long have you been in the Navy?
All me bloomin' life, sir!
Me mother was a mermaid
Me father was King Neptune.
I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep.
Seaweed and barnacles are me clothes.
Every tooth in me head is a marlinspike; the hair on me head is hemp.
Every bone in me body is a spar, and when I spits, I spits tar!
I'se hard, I is, I am, I are !
(emphasis added)
Probably had his first cruise with CAPT Noah on USS ARK, later with CAPT Moses on USS BULRUSH.
My wife was at Walter Reed derm clinic last week and one of the HMs helping with her procedure volunteered for and was chosen to provide medical coverage for plebe summer.
wow that is great!!! I was actually amazed at how fast the medical peeps came and got the kids that fainted out of the lines and over to ice them down.......my plebe said the detailers were yelling at them to drink water from their canteens every 5 mins so they did not faint - I guess the detailers were not drinking enough........and the sun was beaming on them.....felt so bad for them.