[Blood of Tyrants]

I remember the Marines guarding the personnelmen handing out pay while at sea. I wonder where anyone would go if they were stupid enough to rob the pay clerk on payday.

[Celtic Conservative]

I have a coworker that served as pay clerk for a marine unit on Okinawa. He said the first thing he did was report to the armory for his 1911A2 before picking up the cash and it stayed on him until he was done disbursing.

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[cva66snipe]

I remember the Marines guarding the personnelmen handing out pay while at sea. I wonder where anyone would go if they were stupid enough to rob the pay clerk on payday.

Back then it was doubtful. That's not to say some didn't try rather stupid acts. One guy drove a forklift off the flightdeck in port. One guy went through the aft mess decks with a burning cross. One guy in Fire Dept a Satanist liked to hold rituals at his rack. One guy on flightdeck crew won the most stupid stunt award. We pulled out of St Thomas, VI and that evening the ship went to Flight Quarters. After that came the Man Overboard whistle. They found gear with his name but not him. They searched all night and part of the next day then suspended the search and let the smaller ships continue looking.

We got back to Norfolk and the Captain had a surprise announcement. Seems the clown talked a buddy into tossing his gear and reporting him overboard. He caught a commercial flight home from St Thomas. The Navy sent the notification team to his parents home and told his mother he was missing at sea. She said no he's not he's in the living room watching TV. How dumb can you be? LOL. Now that is stupid's stupid LOL.

The last one was tragic and cost the guy his life. We were pulling in to Norfolk in early 1977 and it was raining and fog. Evidently a guy had gotten a Dear John Letter and jumped overboard somewhere off Virginia Beach. His body was located a few days later.