Because Im black jackass, its in my nature.
Seriously, I was being sarcastic. I am a radioman in the Navy. Its kinda like a myth that RMs dont work(pencile pushers, electronic yeowman) and Machinist Mates are knuckled draggers, in essence my job is not physically demanding. Thats what I meant.
I have never been to mast. I was Junior sailor, my evals are 3.8 an above. i have to Nams. Look guy, im not bragging about it. But you are making me to be some lazy *******. I have spent 3-4 months underwater at a time protecting you're ***. Thank god I have a sense of humor. I suggest you go get one.
EDIT: I just looked at the posts ou quoted. I said that I probably worked less. Nothinig about being proude of it. Hell, I dont even think you could cut it on a sub. Not to be mean, but Im serious we work hard, but we play hard, cocky arrogant submariners.... hell yeah.... dont get offended either!
I had and Epiphany the other day about the "New Navy/Marine Corps/Army" that all of us (i hate to say it) Old-Timers call all of the new kids...
It occurred to me after I had to call one of my
problem children back in to work since he decided to leave early on his own. I usually let them go around 3:30, after I pass the word. I started rounding everyone up at about 3:15 and he was nowhere to be found. I had my second in charge call his cell phone at 3:30, he answers and says he's at home. This wouldn't have been too wrong, but he lives over an hour away! I told my Second to have the Junior come back in to work.
Well, the Second and I are waiting for him and its getting to be about 4:30 and the Junior still hasn't shown up. The second calls him and he says he's stuck in traffic (no background noise), so I call him around 10 minutes later and he's a little surprised to hear my voice, he says he's still stuck in traffic (again, no background noise) and I tell him that the Second
AND myself are waiting on him. In the mean time, I'm checking the traffic reports on-line to see that its a relatively mild traffic day. He calls back in another 10 min and asks if he really has to come in. Of course, the answer is yes (this time I hear some road noise). He finally gets there around 7:00 and I tell him, "Thanks for coming back in. We'll talk about this tomorrow. Have a nice night."
Of course I counseled him the next day and added it to the pile of chits that he has accumulating in his file. This guy's evals from his last command says he has done the same kind of B.S. there, too. And a Call between my Chief and his old Chief relates that he was going to Mast for that stuff, but he played the race card every time and got out of it...
So, anyway, back to the epiphany...
While I was spending my Libbo waiting on him, I came up with this:
There has always been and there will always be a "New Navy." When I was junior it was happening all around me, but since I wasn't in a higher leader ship position I wasn't as effected by it. In other words, I didn't have to waste all of my time trying to fix problem children like that guy, so (inadvertently) I had a blind eye to it. Now I consider myself pretty squared away and I've promoted pretty d
amn fast for a Corpsman and I realize now that all of those problem children usually get out after their first tour...
Does that make sense????? Sorry about the long read for all of you Hooked-On-Phonics people out there...
, i Love my job, it help when i want to get creative in car audio as well
