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To: exDemMom

Not on minesweepers though. There’s a lot more tortured language in the article too. Sailors don’t go on ‘shore leave’, they go on ‘liberty’. Sailors don’t go AWOL, they go UA (unauthorized absence). I never heard a trumpet (bugle, actually) play reveille aboard a ship either.


7 posted on 09/26/2013 3:29:30 AM PDT by Bob
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I would have to ask my husband about that, since he spent about half of his time deployed for most of his 20 years in the Navy. During my 4 years in the Navy, I only stepped foot on a ship once, for just long enough to find out that my husband had already disembarked.

We certainly had plenty of Marines at the shore station where I was assigned.


11 posted on 09/26/2013 3:34:17 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: Bob

Plus the article misspelled ‘reveille’.


12 posted on 09/26/2013 3:43:09 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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