On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:21:07 -0600, "Steve"
wrote:

"Nomen Nescio" wrote in message
.. .
though it seems like a joke, one 6 month deployment on a submarine and
you would be able to come up with a list much greater in length.
McDeploy!!!

I associate leaving the navy with being soothed and better associating
myself with nature.

Snip nauseating long rant that nobody likely read to the end of

It's obvious to me that you NEVER served in the Navy. Rants like this,
some serious, most not, were standard fare on the subs of Squadron 17.
And a lot of what he whines about is dead on - like, oh, complaint 99
about the dreaded "poopy-suit" or 44 ("Sea Foam Green" - oh, ick. I'd
almost erased that color from my mind).

Sailors bitch. There ain't no two ways about it. All you guys who read
it and didn't just have yourselves at least a small chuckle need to
get a clue.

I can understand why you prefer McDonald's, they have a lot of cheese to
serve with your whine. Or maybe it's just a job you can handle.

From what I did read of your epic blather, I gather that you are much more
intelligent than your former peers and "superiors" in the navy.

Since the guy was obviously a nuc, that's not very far fetched.

I used to freeze up in CO interviews, which made qualifying RO and SRO
rather painful, since the CO gave the final interviews for those
watchstations. During the painful process of qualifying SRO, the XO
counseled me one time and let slip that I had THE best test scores of
*anyone* on board - *anyone*.

And even if he wasn't, while you meet a lot of people like Tom
Clancy's fictional Bart Mancuso in the Nuclear Navy, but, you also
meet a lot of people like his Harry Ricks - especially since NavSea-08
(or whatever they're calling it nowadays) seems to always be run by a
Harry Ricks type.

Which makes
me wonder, how in the ocean does the navy, with all those stupid people,
manage to successfully operate the most sophisticated machinery on the
planet, in the most dangerous and inhospitable environment, year after year?
And now they're going to have to do it without you?!?! Our navy is
doomed!!! (Yeah, that's right, OUR navy)

Actually, I imagine the navy is pretty soothed that you left, too, so I
suppose it worked out well for all concerned, except, perhaps, McDonald's.
--
"Get next to a clue and hope the wind blows, dude."
- Fitzbo