tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091663762556580085.post8375608424453839071..comments2021-05-03T10:28:09.936-04:00Comments on Oh Just Damn: Me Bad....Miss Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14441825597709556390noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091663762556580085.post-4194439993499300722010-03-15T09:01:58.503-04:002010-03-15T09:01:58.503-04:00Thank you for the Navy history lesson. I am always...Thank you for the Navy history lesson. I am always willing to learn things. Some stick..Some don't. <br /><br />Well I was right on the 'Tin-can'. I am sorry to hear about the Naval accident and all the sailors who died. I may be years late but I will still light a candle and say prayers for those men.<br /><br />Flags and pennants...Well you can say I am trying...{very trying}...deep breath...big sigh.<br /><br />'beat the shit out of the dude and throw him overboard - at night, during darken ship'<br />AAAAAHHHHHH....YEAH-YAH....GULP...<br />when do you yell man overboard??? An inquiring mind wants to know. Maybe?? {small squeezy voice that has running shoes on}<br /><br />"get me out of the Marine mindset into something other than knuckle dragging"<br />But I LIKE knuckle dragging. REALLY, I do.<br />{smiles and snickers}<br /><br /><br />Miss EmMiss Emhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14441825597709556390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1091663762556580085.post-80699420321249796222010-03-14T21:26:37.567-04:002010-03-14T21:26:37.567-04:00Again, corrections. Boats go on ships except for ...Again, corrections. Boats go on ships except for subs. They are still called Boats. And I watched a 10 hour special on an Aircraft Carrier and the cruse she was on and her crew call her a Boat. First time I have heard about that.<br /><br />Yes, that is my old ship, the USS Frank E. Evans (DD754) - DD is the designation for a destroyer. She was cut in half about 03:00, 3 June, 1969, when the HMAS Melborn (an Australian Aircraft Carrier) cut her in half and the front half went down in 3 min. with 74 killed. Only on body was recoverd and he was burnt almost beyond recognition.<br /><br />The pieces of fabric that is run up the lines to display signals or ship identification are called flags or pennants. The flags are the alphabet and the pennants are for certain activities. The semaphore are a pair of flags held in the hand of a signalman (no longer a rate in the Navy) where information was transferred by spelling out the words.<br /><br />And we don’t use the gang plank anymore. We just beat the shit out of a dude and throw him overboard - at night, during darken ship (no outside lights).<br /><br />But you are trying. It will take some time to get you out of the Marine mindset into something other than knuckle dragging.Coffeypothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601474604616163167noreply@blogger.com