But I’ve spent the night on a nuke, and have traps on a nuke in my logbook. Does that make me one? Like a HI Express?

I worked with a SEAL CDR who ate bananas; with a knife. Always. Peel the thing, slice off a bit and put it in the mouth. Never the whole thing. You understand.

VX makes another excellent point about SWOs. We seem to be the first point of contact for losers that have demonstrated a lack of proficiency at flying or can’t hack it in subs. On the 6 ships I served on we always seemed to have a crap magnet in the wardroom who absorbed 95% of the crap doled out. I don’t think of it as crapping on the weakest for no purpose. We needed those losers to get with the program or get lost. When, at the best of times, you can expect to be in 3 section underway watches you simply lose all tolerance for dirtbags whose continued failings mean that you are now headed for port and starboard watches underway. Those air things, they go to sea with plenty of spare officers. The ship’s company doesn’t. Aviators live to fly and build hours in a logbook but I really came to hate spending 17 hours out of every 24 on watch.

I enjoy Lex’s stories about the good ole days when he burst out of the rack at 1000 inport and then wandered down to check for mail and looked around at 1100 and announced he was heading to lunch off the ship and did anybody else feel a wee bit peckish?

No complaints. I thoroughly enjoyed it all!

I ain’t talkin’, Sheriff.

Really sad if you ask me.

But I never knew Scott was a nuke.

Something tells me he would not find being compared to a nuke very amusing………….

But again I ask: what would have been the FLAG/CAG reaction if it were Scott or some other male surface nuke who was filmed without his knowledge and shown at follies? I’m guessing they would have laughed and not thought anything else about it.

Double. Standard.