Posted on Feb 20, 2018
Shipboard Service Is Harsh, And The Navy Isn't Preparing Recruits For It
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Every ship has its own character --- and it is subject to change CDR (Join to see) LCDR (Join to see) LT Brad McInnis LCDR Rabbah Rona Matlow CWO3 Dennis M. SCPO Morris Ramsey CPO Glenn Moss PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO2 Peter Klein PO3 Steven Sherrill SN Greg Wright PO3 Steven Stinnett CMDCM Gene Treants
Shipboard Service Is Harsh, And The Navy Isn't Preparing Recruits For It
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Nah. This author is an entitled asshole who thinks the world owes him everything. Shipboard life is hard? Boofuckinghoo. Yeah. It's fucking hard. Man up and let your balls drop, you unmitigated ass. (Not you, ET1. The author.)
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CWO3 Dennis M.
SN Greg Wright - And the coffee did that to you? Mellowed you out? Cut back on the coffee, I like what you say when you have no coffee, Greg!
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CWO3 Dennis M.
SN Greg Wright - I know what you mean. I think the sensitive ones tend to stay away from us old Navy salts once we get to chatting.
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Cpl Mark A. Morris
My rack was Heaven compared to standing in Blizzards during transfers. Inside the ship we had hot meals and hot female Navy personnel. Outside, rarely a clear sky when working. On purpose me thinks.
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A quick sea story so bear with me on this one.
On Christmas eve prior to an deployment we got 10 new recruits all undesignated. Our deck department was only manned at around 60% so they were trying hard to plus us up before we left. I am the CDO so I called the First LT and told him I had a Christmas present for him, a Christmas miracle even. He told me to spilt them up have half line up on one side of the wardroom table the rest on the other. He then told me to point to the 5 to stbd and tell them they would not make the deployment (mind you we were due to leave Jan 15th) after protest I did what he asked and wouldn’t you know it those five and one from the other side were off the ship prior to us leaving.
The second part of this story is that over those next two weeks we had a rash of young sailors pulled by medical, psych specifically. So the XO decided to have the Doc onboard to “train” the wardroom on what was ailing our youth. So this LCDR comes on board with his two LTs (the docs actually doing the diag) and commences to instruct us on Adjustment Disorder.
Def: Adjustment disorder is a group of symptoms, such as stress, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event. The symptoms occur because you are having a hard time coping. Your reaction is stronger than expected for the type of event that occurred.
So the XO loses it and says “hell I am having trouble adjusting, I have to leave my wife, kids to include a newborn all behind”, So here we are the XO just issued “warring red weapons free” on all medical officers in the room by that statement. It was a blood bath. I think the two LTs were in strait jackets heavily medicated by the time they got back to their offices.
LT Brad McInnis CDR Mike Kovack Maj Marty Hogan MCPO Roger Collins LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SCPO Larry Knight Sr. SCPO David Lockwood PO1 John Y. CWO3 Dennis M. Capt Tom Brown CMDCM Gene Treants MCPO Roger Collins CPO (Join to see) CDR Mike Kovack CPT Jack Durish Col Jim Harmon PO2 Robert Aitchison SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas LT Axel Newe
On Christmas eve prior to an deployment we got 10 new recruits all undesignated. Our deck department was only manned at around 60% so they were trying hard to plus us up before we left. I am the CDO so I called the First LT and told him I had a Christmas present for him, a Christmas miracle even. He told me to spilt them up have half line up on one side of the wardroom table the rest on the other. He then told me to point to the 5 to stbd and tell them they would not make the deployment (mind you we were due to leave Jan 15th) after protest I did what he asked and wouldn’t you know it those five and one from the other side were off the ship prior to us leaving.
The second part of this story is that over those next two weeks we had a rash of young sailors pulled by medical, psych specifically. So the XO decided to have the Doc onboard to “train” the wardroom on what was ailing our youth. So this LCDR comes on board with his two LTs (the docs actually doing the diag) and commences to instruct us on Adjustment Disorder.
Def: Adjustment disorder is a group of symptoms, such as stress, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms that can occur after you go through a stressful life event. The symptoms occur because you are having a hard time coping. Your reaction is stronger than expected for the type of event that occurred.
So the XO loses it and says “hell I am having trouble adjusting, I have to leave my wife, kids to include a newborn all behind”, So here we are the XO just issued “warring red weapons free” on all medical officers in the room by that statement. It was a blood bath. I think the two LTs were in strait jackets heavily medicated by the time they got back to their offices.
LT Brad McInnis CDR Mike Kovack Maj Marty Hogan MCPO Roger Collins LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SCPO Larry Knight Sr. SCPO David Lockwood PO1 John Y. CWO3 Dennis M. Capt Tom Brown CMDCM Gene Treants MCPO Roger Collins CPO (Join to see) CDR Mike Kovack CPT Jack Durish Col Jim Harmon PO2 Robert Aitchison SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas LT Axel Newe
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CWO3 Dennis M.
SN Greg Wright - Aye Aye matey, I will second you on that! See laying off the coffee makes for better posts!
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CPO Glenn Moss
SN Greg Wright - I was a first class at the time. Probably didn't help me on my evaluations, but honestly? That's not what kept me from being ranked number one that evaluation cycle.
I got a new Chief that year and later on, when they were doing first class rankings, he came back and said "Well...I almost had you ranked as number one, but I didn't quite have what I needed to get you there."
ME: "Really? I was actually in the running for number one?"
CHIEF: "Oh, yeah. The COB had something on you that I didn't have any information on. Tell me...did you tell your last Chief he could suck the heat out of your *ss?"
ME: *laughing* "Yep. The story behind that is we were sitting in the goatlocker right after he got back from Nuclear Planning School and we were going over all the research and paperwork I had done in writing a replacement package for an individual rod position detector before I went on leave. He said in the middle of all the reviews "I think I should cancel your leave and keep you here for this." I said "I think you can suck the heat out of my *ss." Chief Light was pulling my leg with his comment...and if he thought I was even in the SLIGHTEST disrespectful to him, he would have yanked a knot in my skrote."
CHIEF: "Well, apparently, the COB was in the goatlocker when that happened and heard you."
ME: "Well, if the COB didn't think Chief Light was fully capable of taking care of his own first class himself, he can suck the heat out of my *ss, too."
I got a new Chief that year and later on, when they were doing first class rankings, he came back and said "Well...I almost had you ranked as number one, but I didn't quite have what I needed to get you there."
ME: "Really? I was actually in the running for number one?"
CHIEF: "Oh, yeah. The COB had something on you that I didn't have any information on. Tell me...did you tell your last Chief he could suck the heat out of your *ss?"
ME: *laughing* "Yep. The story behind that is we were sitting in the goatlocker right after he got back from Nuclear Planning School and we were going over all the research and paperwork I had done in writing a replacement package for an individual rod position detector before I went on leave. He said in the middle of all the reviews "I think I should cancel your leave and keep you here for this." I said "I think you can suck the heat out of my *ss." Chief Light was pulling my leg with his comment...and if he thought I was even in the SLIGHTEST disrespectful to him, he would have yanked a knot in my skrote."
CHIEF: "Well, apparently, the COB was in the goatlocker when that happened and heard you."
ME: "Well, if the COB didn't think Chief Light was fully capable of taking care of his own first class himself, he can suck the heat out of my *ss, too."
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Ummm... and water is wet! Life at sea is tough because the sea is a very unforgiving place. She does not take kindly to 2nd place. Frankly, having been on both sides, most sailors find a happy medium and like being at sea. Those that don't, are going to b@tch about everything and probably should be in another service (I'm looking at you Air Force)! That being said, the CG's mentioned in the article had command climate issues, which really make things difficult... Wow, just read this over and realize that I sound awfully wishy washy... Got to go have more coffee, maybe that was the sailor's problem that wrote the article....
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SN Greg Wright
Nah you're right LT. It's hard, period. Few things can make a person realize just how small we really are than a 300k-ton ship being tossed like a twig. You either gotta love it, or you're gonna hate it. Non-Sailors think it's an easy life, with no danger. As you know, nothing could be further from the truth. A soldier in the desert trips and falls, he curses and brushes off his knees. You trip and fall and you die.
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