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For many deployments, 7 days a week every morning.........
REVEILLE, REVEILLE. ALL HANDS HEAVE OUT AND TRICE UP. THE SMOKING LAMP IS LIGHTED ON ALL WEATHER DECKS. REVEILLE.........BREAKFAST FOR THE CREW
Is it still like that with the nonstop whistle?
REVEILLE, REVEILLE. ALL HANDS HEAVE OUT AND TRICE UP. THE SMOKING LAMP IS LIGHTED ON ALL WEATHER DECKS. REVEILLE.........BREAKFAST FOR THE CREW
Is it still like that with the nonstop whistle?
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The following is a test of the ship's whistle.... Test complete.
Sweepers, Sweepers, man your brooms. Give the ship a good clean sweep down both fore and aft! Sweep down all decks, ladders and passageways! Dump all garbage clear of the fantail! Sweepers.
You never get that stuff out of your mind.
Sweepers, Sweepers, man your brooms. Give the ship a good clean sweep down both fore and aft! Sweep down all decks, ladders and passageways! Dump all garbage clear of the fantail! Sweepers.
You never get that stuff out of your mind.
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LTJG (Join to see)
The sweepers announcement hurts my soul. Only 16-26 more years. ;P Some things never change!
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PO1 John Johnson
LTJG (Join to see) - Chin up, chest out and eyes forward, Sailor. You can do this standing on your head as long as you do your job well and make rank. It'll be over before you know it and you'll wonder where the time went, and you'll have had a great time. And then even further down the line, you can come on here and hang out with the oldtimers and really wonder where the time went!
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As of 1999 when I retired from the USCG, it was still the order of the day aboard Cutters.
True story - At 0630, on the 04-08 watch of the last day of my final underway and about 4 hours before we pulled into homeport in 1990, as an E-5 QuarterMaster on the USCGC Planetree (WLB 307), just a few days before I PCS'd out to my new unit, I couldn't help myself so I made the following "non-standard" reveille pipe over the 1MC: "Now, wakey, wakey, rise and shine. The cook's in the chow hall, weather's fine. You got your sleep, I got mine. Now, wakey, wakey, rise and shine", quickly followed by a simple "Now - Reveille"! I had heard that from my father for years, who did a stint in the USN back in the late 50's. Luckily for me, our CO had a great sense of humor, overlooked it and I heard nothing about it later. Unknown if the OOD had any explaining to do, but in his defense he had no idea I was going to make that pipe, and I would have backed him up and took my beating like a man with the XO/CO if he had gotten in any trouble for it.
True story - At 0630, on the 04-08 watch of the last day of my final underway and about 4 hours before we pulled into homeport in 1990, as an E-5 QuarterMaster on the USCGC Planetree (WLB 307), just a few days before I PCS'd out to my new unit, I couldn't help myself so I made the following "non-standard" reveille pipe over the 1MC: "Now, wakey, wakey, rise and shine. The cook's in the chow hall, weather's fine. You got your sleep, I got mine. Now, wakey, wakey, rise and shine", quickly followed by a simple "Now - Reveille"! I had heard that from my father for years, who did a stint in the USN back in the late 50's. Luckily for me, our CO had a great sense of humor, overlooked it and I heard nothing about it later. Unknown if the OOD had any explaining to do, but in his defense he had no idea I was going to make that pipe, and I would have backed him up and took my beating like a man with the XO/CO if he had gotten in any trouble for it.
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SSgt Dan Montague
funny story. I will say though, with all the Navy/military terms you used, many non military will be scratching their heads thinking??????????
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PO1 John Johnson
LTJG (Join to see) - See if you can talk the E-4 into trying it! Unfortunately, I'm hearing that a lot about the CG as well.
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It sure is. I got off ship about 6 months ago and this is how I woke up every morning.
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Yes. My last two ships didn't pipe reveille though, only passed the word. Underway my last ship would also play a song for reveille. "Trice up" has been removed.
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We Sailors Do Like Our Traditions (No One Even Knows How to Trice Up Anymore). It was still how we did it on USS Arkansas CGN-41 when I retired in 97.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SCPO (Join to see) - Exactly but the "Word" is still passed the Same Way as if we still have those types of Racks.
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I served with a guy who said he was on a ship where the CO didn't like the boatswain's whistle. Instead, that CO had used bugle calls.
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Yup. Still the same. That and "standby for words of the commanding officer."
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Well, when this Air Force guy had to serve aboard the USS LaSalle in the 80s it was.
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That's a bit different from Reveille on the USS Coronado back in 1981...
Reveille! Now Reveille! All hands heave to and trice up. The smoking lamp is lighted on all weather decks.
SSG Bonnell, USA (Ret)
Reveille! Now Reveille! All hands heave to and trice up. The smoking lamp is lighted on all weather decks.
SSG Bonnell, USA (Ret)
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I have not been on a Navy ship since 1992 and I still hear these kinds of general announcements from the 1MC and the 5MC. Does that count as PTSD? Probably not.
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