whippleofd
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ORIGINAL: RevRick salutin' demon ensigns, You saluted the butterbars?!?!?! We usually just had our senior chief give them a spanking... Only if we met the on the beach, and nobody saw us. Even then, we washed our hands and our hats afterwards. We were out catching a few rays on the fantail in the Med, when this newly hatched United States Navy Commissioned Officer came harumphing up and tried to get us all to salute. We were, of course, in shorts and shower shoes basically, with the stereo from the ship's laundery blaring out all over the place. The young man - younger than most of us by that time - and just out of Kiddie School at Newport - glared around and said something like "Don't you men salute an officer when you see him." The Old Man stuck his head up over the hatch coaming. Thought that young'un was gonna break his elbow. The Skipper then said. "Okay, men. Salutings taken care of. Resume SunEx." Crazy Dude. Great shiphandler though. The ensign eventually worked out. They assigned him to the Snipes and that's about the last we saw of him for a while. Reminds me of the time a fresh Ensign, after an inspection, got all his unit chief's together and said something to the effect that they did good on the inspection but maybe next time they could all have the same color of chevrons instead of some having red and others having gold ... a Master Chief took him in tow and "explained" things to him. The "ring knocker" O-1's were alot of fun, no doubt about that. Alot of different ways that a CPO can train one. Some without embaressment to the ENS, and others needed the humbleing. Whipple
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