Chiefs’ Mess Meltdown: Seven Chiefs on a Deployed Cruiser Go to Mast
27th April 2017
Hey, let’s put female sailors on board ships! What could possibly go wrong?
27th April 2017
Hey, let’s put female sailors on board ships! What could possibly go wrong?
April 27th, 2017 at 15:48
Since we all know that sailors are utterly incapable of controlling themselves as decent human beings–chiefs being the worst–we should keep all females as far away from them as possible. All Hail the All-Volunteer Service, which attracts such a superior pool of candidates.
April 28th, 2017 at 08:20
Tim! I’m shocked at your genitalia-biased comments! Those could have been homosexual relationships or trans-sexual relationships or just about any other combination except bestiality (as the ship’s mascot seems to have avoided involvement.) Who knows what those naughty nauticals were up to! (Cue the Village People…)
April 28th, 2017 at 08:30
A friend of mine served in the Navy in the 1970s. At some point, he was in charge of the movies for an aircraft carrier. (He was the only guy who could figure out how to fix the projectors they were using.) He got tired of the junior officers giving him hell for not getting the movies they wanted when they demanded them, so he decided it was time to teach them a lesson. When the ship stopped at Rota, Spain, he picked up the new supply of movies and made sure they were all Disney or National Geographic flics. The day after leaving port, he got called into the captain’s office and royally chewed out. The fleet returned to Rota long enough for him to go into port and pick up the standard supply of porn. The junior officers also got a lecture and were forced to treat him a little better.
Whether you’re talking 16th century pirates or today’s PC fleet, there are certain things that remain constant about young people stuck at sea for months at a time in close quarters.
April 28th, 2017 at 11:42
After six years in the Navy, I know exactly what they were up to.