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Comment on One of the best military quotes ever! by spunkyduckling @ best military quotes

spunkyduckling @ best military quotes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:35:13 +0000

Thanks for sharing…I might add this to my collection. This really can fit the category of best military quotes. It’s funny, realistic, vivid, descriptive, selfless and heart too.

Comment on TAD by mostly cajun

mostly cajun — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:05:58 +0000

Well, be careful…

And do drop us a line when you get back.

Comment on I done had it with this stuff by Richard

Richard — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:09:37 +0000

I hear you, brother.

Richard
USN 1966-1970

Comment on Doggone punks! by Fresh Air Snipe

Fresh Air Snipe — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:07:19 +0000

It is 40 lshes minus one for a grand total of 39.

Comment on Random by SciFiJim

SciFiJim — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:11:53 +0000

My days spent sailing the ocean blue.

Comment on Good rant by Walrilla

Walrilla — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:23:58 +0000

Oh! Hell! YEAH! I couldn’t agree more if I wrote the damn article myself! My wife is a teacher, and listening to what she has to deal with every day, I’d be in prison for “abuse” if I had to deal with it!

Comment on My First Deployed Christmas by SciFiJim

SciFiJim — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:23:22 +0000

10-200 CB lingo. Learned it by watching Smokey and the Bandit at the theater (Damn, I’m getting old).

Comment on The kinder gentler Navy by Richard

Richard — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:45:58 +0000

Heh….it’s funny how your blog evokes old memories……

Back in the stone age (1966) I went through boot at San Diego. One aspect of fire fighting training consisted of teams of recruits sent into the bottom floor of a four story concrete building, with only one other exit; up steel stairs to the roof, where the escape hatch may or may not have had someone standing on it. The fire was diesel fuel and old tires, we were not expected to put it out, we were expected to escape. There were no lights, and no windows. Anyone caught trying to get back out at the bottom entry portal had his air mask removed while his ass was well chewed, and sent back to the stairs. I remember that steel stairway railing was damn hot to the touch.

I don’t know if they still run that exercise (or one like it) today, but I do know that if it had been taught on a computer screen, I’d have forgotten it in a week. The hands on training and lack of “pussification” doled out in those days left an impression on this country boy. It may not have been the kinder, gentler Navy, but it got my attention!

Comment on Maritime misadventures by Richard

Richard — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:50:03 +0000

I was beginning to think you had been confined to quarters!

As to the four year guys, they are in for a major disappointment.
They’d be better off “reup”.

Richard

Comment on Maritime misadventures by oltanker

oltanker — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:31:01 +0000

Glad to see you back!

I was just pondering as to why all the good new blogs seem to fall off the face of the earth, and you’re back!

Now write lots of stuff!