Comments on: I guess they don’t have bosun’s mates in Colombia

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:09:57 +0000

Thanks to the swaydo-anonymity of the intertubes, I can say that that fella is posing like a girl.

I hope that my next-door neighbor is not reading this, he being a Colombian and, unlike the short biddable Mexicans who mow the lawns here, right protective of his honor. And maybe proactive about it, too.

Just sayin…

By: mark nelson

mark nelson — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:24:14 +0000

I was a QM during my prior active duty life before becoming an HM in the reserves. Like the Bosun’s, the QM’s have their own weather decks to maintain. Doing so, you quickly learn the various weaknesses of those railings, especially as they’re all made of fiberglass these days.

I’d lean on them occasionally, but never in a manner that placed any real weight or force on them.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:58:41 +0000

… or sit on a bit, chock, VLS launcher, et al. While your at it, don’t go topside in weather, at night, or with the girls they put on Destroyers these days… day OR night. That is unless she’s the XO duly pointing out the inability of the DCPO’s in setting Dog Zebra.

By: lex

lex — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:50:17 +0000

As long as I’ve been about, Richard. I got hollered at as a mid, then once again as a lieutenant junior grade and I guess I learned my lesson at last.

Never lean on a lifeline. When there’s a bosun’s mate around

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:02:35 +0000

Lex,
When did that sillyness come about? That was one of the few pleasures we had to look out over the waves when we had a chance. They never used to care about leaning on the lifelines.

By: lex

lex — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:10:09 +0000

As I recall they just make you wish you were dead, rather than actually kill you.

But the experience never leaves you. And you don’t lean on the lifelines.