Posted on 05/04/2022 3:42:29 PM PDT by dynachrome
.....lol, I’m sure I’ve spent many nights in the exact same barracks in Yokosuka these feminized GW depressed weenies are going to be staying in.
I guarantee you that living in those barracks as opposed to onboard the GW is at best a lateral move for them.
YO-KOOS-KA is a very over-crowded place and I don’t envy anybody having to stay there very long.
The Navy should just draw up their separation papers and send them home.
Who says it’s a him?
Busting rust, and, at the O-1 level and above, light-metal corrosion, often as not with needle guns—also a favorite Deck Division pastime.
Fifty years ago I golfed on a 100+° day, and I remarked to my playing companion, in his 40s, my wonderment that he never complained about the heat. He said, "I was at the Battle of the Bulge, and I swore then that I would never again complain about the heat."
Then, too, my dad was in the 20th Armored through southern Germany, and he brought home a rock from Hitler's fireplace at Berchtesgaden.
Has the Navy watered down their requirements for enlisting???
And paint. Don’t forget painting.
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I had a co worker friend that I knew had spent 4 years in the Navy. I asked him one day, what he did in the Navy.
He said, “I chipped paint.” I said, “Is that it, you chipped paint?”
He repeated, “I chipped paint.”
There it is right there.
Prior to going to the GW, I was stationed on the Independence when it was in Yokosuka. A dry dock period is the worst duty if you are a Jr. Sailor and had to live onboard like I did. You are on firewatch daily and there are fires always! Most of the time water onboard is off (shower hours), the AC is off (sweat, depression disappointment and smoke) and you usually have to box lunch it for dinner and midrats unless you walk over to the barracks ship in our case more than 1/2 mile away. Wiring, extension cords, tubing, grinding and hammering nearly 18 hours a day. The one good thing that made it worthwhile was the Battle (Strike) Group Commander Adm. Smith refused to move his office off the Independence as he had been her CO before promotion and any one who wanted to see him had to run the maze. In closing believe me I understand what these kids are going thru and I believe that they were overworked during the Pandemic because the civilians and contractors who would normally do 70% of the overhaul could not work, so it fell to the crew. Unless you have dry docked an aircraft carrier twice then you don’t know the mental strain that puts on sailor.
Exactly! Show me a NAVY Needy Gun and I will have nervous breakdown LMBO!
Yep!
Going through a refuelling overhaul in the shipyard is what made me a one and done sailor. Worst retention rates in the Navy are on ships doing extended time in the yards. Insane work tempo....
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