Posted on 05/18/2014 6:28:24 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
to simulate a good liberty night, throw the money in your wallet in the trash can, and beat your head against a door frame while chewing on a dirty sock
simulates being a sound powered phone talker a GQ station.
I can relate to many of those. But I have to tell you, the Navy also has an off-white paint.
Actually, I was on heavy cruisers and some of the stuff the author presented did not exist on those “warriors”.
Lots of memories in that article.
This helps explain why navies fight each other with such ferocity. I’d be spring loaded to kill somebody or something living like that.
Yes! These bring back memories of gangway soap, 10 feet of chow line, sea bats, bulkhead remover, buckets of steam and mail bouy watches.
For those who were never in the Navy, this entire list is amazingly accurate.
Now I know why my USNA grad husband took his commission in the Marine Corps!!!
An additional one that was omitted, the cake dryer and lettuce browner in the galley, the galley could not function without them.
I was on the 245 and 382 boats and it was the same way. The torpedoes we had then were all the magnetic type (shoot deep and have the fish blow up underneath the keel) so there was little chance of them going off.
One of the WWII vets on board told me they used contact torpedoes which had a large (about 12") four-bladed propeller on the front. It had to spin x amount of times before they would arm themselves. One day he found a Newbie idly spinning the propeller to pass the time. A quick sermon on "Why you shouldn't do that" followed.
Don’t forget the 600 lb. steam powered button crusher in the ships laundry
They also have lots of pea green paint.
Sound powered phones and a GQ/refuling station watch.
I was merely a Navy wife (and mom) and found this hilarious! thanks
More funny ones:
Ways to Simulate Navy Life at Home
1.Lock all friends and family outside. Your only means of communication should be with letters that your neighbors have held for at least three weeks, discarding two of five.
2. Surround yourself with 200 people that you don’t really know or like: people who smoke, snore like Mack trucks going uphill, and use foul language like a child uses sugar on cereal.
3. Unplug all radios and TVs to completely cut yourself off from the outside world. Have a neighbor bring you a Time, Newsweek, or Proceedings from five years ago to keep you abreast of current events.
4. Monitor all home appliances hourly, recording all vital information (ie: plugged in, lights come on when doors open, etc.)
5. Do not flush the toilet for five days to simulate the smell of 40 people using the same commode.
6. Lock the bathroom twice a day for a four-hour period.
7. Wear only military uniforms. Even though nobody cares, clean and press one dress uniform and wear it for 20 minutes.
8. Cut your hair weekly, making it shorter each time, until you look bald or look like you lost a fight with a demented sheep.
9. Work in 19-hour cycles, sleeping only four hours at a time, to ensure that your body does not know or even care if it is day or night.
10. Listen to your favorite CD six times a day for two weeks, then play music that causes acute nausea until you are glad to get back to your favorite CD.
11. Cut a twin mattress in half and enclose three sides of your bed. Add a roof that prevents you from sitting up (about ten inches is a good distance) then place it on a platform that is four feet off the floor. Place a small dead animal under the bed to simulate the smell of your bunkmate’s socks.
12. Set your alarm to go off at ten-minute intervals for the first hour of sleep to simulate the various times the watchstanders and nightcrew bump around and wake you up. Place your bed on a rocking table so you are tossed around the remaining three hours. Make use of a custom clock that randomly simulates fire alarms, police sirens, helicopter crash alarms, and a new-wave rock band.
13. Have week old fruit and vegetables delivered to your garage and wait two weeks before eating them.
14. Prepare all meals blindfolded using all the spices you can grope for, or none at all. Remove the blindfold and eat everything in three minutes.
15. Periodically, shut off all power at the main circuit breaker and run around shouting “Fire! Fire! Fire!” and then restore power.
16. At least once a month, force the commode to overflow to simulate a “black water system” boo-boo.
17. Buy a gas mask and smear it with rancid animal fat. Scrub the faceshield with steel wool until you can no longer see out of it. Wear this for two hours every fifth day especially when you are in the bathroom.
18. Study the owner’s manual for all household appliances. Routinely take an appliance apart and put it back together.
19. Remove all plants, pictures and decorations. Paint everything gray, white, or the shade of hospital smocks.
20. Buy 50 cases of toilet paper and lock up all but two rolls. Ensure one of these two rolls is wet all the time.
21. Smash your forehead or shins with a hammer every two days to simulate collision injuries sustained onboard Navy ships.
22. When making sandwiches, leave the bread out for six days, or until it is hard and stale.
23. Every ten weeks, simulate a visit to another port. Go directly to the city slums wearing your best clothes. Find the worst looking place, and ask for the most expensive beer that they carry. Drink as many as you can in four hours. Take a cab home taking the longest possible route. Tip the cabby after he charges you double because you dress funny and don’t speak right.
24. Use fresh milk for only two days after each port visit.
25. Keep the bedroom thermostat at 2 deg C and use only a thin blanket for warmth.
26. Ensure that the water heater is connected to a device that provides water at a flow rate that varies from a fast drip to a weak trickle, with the temperature alternating rapidly from -2 to 95 deg C.
27. Use only spoons which hold a minimum of 1/2 cup at a time.
28. Repaint the interior of your home every month, whether it needs it or not.
29. Remind yourself every day: “It’s not just a job, It’s An Adventure!
30. Mix kerosene with your water supply to simulate the de-sal plant on the ship picking up jp5 in the intake — if a lit match thrown into your coffee pot doesn’t ignite it, add more kerosene.
31. Stand outside at attention at dawn and have the poorest reader you know read the morning paper out loud. Be sure to have him skip over anything pertinent.
32. Every four hours, check the fluid level in your car’s radiator. Check the tire pressure and replace air lost from excessive pressure checks. Be sure to place red tag on ignition stating “DANGER: DO NOT OPERATE” while you perform these checks. Inform your neighbor as to the results of these checks, have him tell you to repeat the checks because he did not see you perform them.
33. Paint your house gray (exterior) include windows except for rooms you do not frequent, paint your car gray, paint your driveway a different shade of gray.
34. Clean your house until there’s absolutely not a speck of dust anywhere. Call on a stranger to come inspect your house. Ensure stranger sees dust that has collected in the time it took to find him. Stranger cannot leave until he finds irrational fault with your house/belongings.
I never served, but was a Navy wife and mom, but I think these are hilariously funny, not cynical. :D
Six feet of mess line, sound powered phone batteries, clean the fallopian tubes...
Thanks!
Boots would believe anything you told them to do LOL. We could be off VACAPES late in the afternoon headed into the sun and you could tell them we were headed to the MED because the JFK was D.I.W. Other favorite sport was making a Boot sea sick. The power of suggestion while standing with a Boot out on a sponson. LOL. Just start acting like you're gonna hurl & they caught on fast.
It could in some ways also describe trying to communicate while wearing the old OBA’s used for firefighting. The nozzleman {One on One} would have to yell to the On Scene Leader standing outside the compartment on fire what was going on. As many as three persons may have to relay what you’re saying and get it right. It’s about like trying to understand someone shouting with both hands over their mouth. Last I heard the Navy switched to Scott Air Packs. I’d say they likely have radio comm now also.
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