When I enlisted in the Navy, I found out who cleaned the toilets.
Thank you for my first laff today!
So did I, when I joined the Marines...................
When I went to Air Force basic, the DI asked for anyone who bowled to raise their hands. Those who did so were given the task of cleaning the toilet bowls...
When I enlisted in the Navy, I found out who cleaned the toilets.
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Just one of the little ‘duties’ that were intended for the ‘newbies’...
(And from lowly E1 SR to ADM one is always a ‘newbie’ at a new(er) duty station)..
(THE Two best ships one was ever on was the one you just left and the one you are going to)
To add on, in my experience, I don’t recall ‘they’ ever had to really train the New Recruits to do menial tasks.
I had a mother that ensured that I(around 10 at the time)would be able to take care of my sister (3 yrs younger) while she worked at night and that involved keeping the place in order for her to relax and have a quiet smoke and beer when she got home at night.
Remember the GREAT scene in ‘No Time For Sergeants’ (Andy Griffith) where he had the terlets salute the CO...
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He stuck his bare hand under the rim of the toilet, and got a hand full of rust. Getting those toilets clean was quite an experience.
“When I enlisted in the Navy, I found out who cleaned the toilets.”
LOL! I’m Army so me, too. Grease Traps in the Mess Hall as well. I never KNEW there were so many things in this world that required daily cleaning or polishing or waxing and buffing. *SMIRK*
(And yet somehow, I am a better person for it...)
Yeah it was the latrine Queen:-)