Humor in uniform 4/27/2010

[R J]

4/27/2010
I spent several years as a submariner, and while at sea we would have a celebration halfway through a patrol.  On one such night, the captain, who was serving dinner to the crew, tried to put some vegetables on a recruit's plate.  The young seaman wouldn't take them.  "With all due respect, sir," the recruit said, "I don't eat them for my mother, and she outranks you."                                            Mark Widman

[Jabba]

As a former submariner... there are no "recruits" serving on subs.  Only the top 10% or so of sailors could even volunteer for sub duty.  You have to prove yourself first, before being accepted into the silent service.

Still cute though.  No where does it say that humor in uniform stories have to be accurate. 

Jabba

[R J]

I just a posting what I read in da Humor in Uniform book...........

Don't blame the water boy..

I only doing this to break up the monotony of people blowing off steam.

Takes less face muscles to smile, thna it does to frown.

[BigAlOfMD]

As a former submariner... there are no "recruits" serving on subs.  Only the top 10% or so of sailors could even volunteer for sub duty.  You have to prove yourself first, before being accepted into the silent service.

Still cute though.  No where does it say that humor in uniform stories have to be accurate. 

Jabba

Bubble Head
My son is an MT1 on a Trident.

[Jabba]

No worries RJ.  Like I said... HIU doesn't have to be true.

Big Al in MD... Cool.  I was a MM2 on a LA boat.  Omaha SSN^(@ out of Pearl Harbor.  They decommed her in 1998 I think.  I left the boat in 1992.

Jabba