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Five Most Common Questions I Get About the Navy

  • June 4, 2010 12:52 am

As this short week comes to a close because of this year’s past Memorial Day weekend, I’d thought I’d share the five most common questions people ask when I tell them about the Navy. I’m not a Rambo, adrenaline, want to pick a fight kinda guy. Nor did I get bad grades or was a hip hop gangster in school. Quite the opposite. I can actually do most of those challenges from Emmie’s post with my naval education. But unfortunately, I quickly became a thirty year old when I turned eighteen and graduated bootcamp.

1. Did you ever kill someone?  Read more...

Call of Duty

  • March 5, 2010 12:42 pm

The other day my Navy buddy drove through Los Angeles on his way to his new duty station in Washington state. We served together in San Diego a while back and did three tours in the Persian Gulf and one in Central America. We also enlisted in the military almost at the same time and to hear he only has seven more years to retirement was pretty shocking. RETIREMENT! Damn, I wouldn’t even be forty yet had I stuck it out and did my twenty. He was pretty emotional because he was leaving his wife and two kids behind in San Diego. I remembered and experienced that kind of feeling before and I never wish that upon anyone. But we both knew that’s the kind of thing you have to do when you sign your life away.

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Power – Dead in the Water

  • December 6, 2009 9:02 pm

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We were off the coast of Guatemala in early 2002. Stopped for a quick liberty port while some of the crew were performing maintenance on the ship (stationed on the USS Oldendorf). Our mission for the next three months was Drug Ops aka catch go-fast drug boats trying to smuggle anything illegal up the coast into North America. (details and pics of the drug ops for a later post) Little did most of the crew knew, the ship was dead in the water. Completely blacked out . All engines dead, generators off, no ac, no water, zip, zero. The crew who were standing duty (the third who protected the ship while the rest were on land) had to sleep on the outside skin of the ship, even piss and shit off the side of the boat. We were literally defensively and the captain was seconds away of being relieved of his duty. So what did any good naval crew do…save the captain’s ass!  Read more...

Thanks(for the pumpkin pie)giving

  • November 24, 2009 1:12 pm

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This past week, we offenders are trying out a new “flava of the week”. If you click on the icon to the right, you’ll see all the post so far. So appropriately this week’s flava is Thanksgiving. My family isn’t quite the type to celebrate holidays, let alone birthdays. So instead of sharing how our chinese family doesn’t eat turkey or yams or whatever white people eat, I’d like to instead share with you the very first time I tried pumpkin pie.  Read more...

Happy Veteran’s Day

  • November 11, 2009 1:24 pm
Seasparrow missile, USS OLDENDORF DD972

Seasparrow missile, USS OLDENDORF DD972

On September 11th 1997, I enlisted in the United States Navy signing a contract to serve for six years. I was only 17 years old at the time, so six years would eventually be a fourth of my life. But I had no choice. Either I stay home with an abusive family member and rough it out or make my own decision and go on the ultimate journey of life, the military.  Read more...

Who Doesn’t Love a Good Prank

  • October 13, 2009 10:53 am

The last prank I remember doing on someone was back in the military. My navy buddies and I always did disgusting things to each other. You could probably imagine the extent of how far we would take it. Taking someone’s clothes while they were showering. Putting clear wrap onto the toilet when they go take a crap. But the best of all was when one time on a Friday our chief (our boss) left his camera out and went out to the smoke break. The whole division (the group I worked with) took the camera and each of us took a pic of our junk. The next Monday at divisional quarters muster (where we take attendance) our chief comes in and gives us the game plan for the week and what to prepare for on our next underway (going out to sea). Then he says to us, “one last thing. My wife developed my photos over the weekend and found this!” And he holds up a bunch of pictures of dicks. Like fifteen of them. He tells us to drop all of our pants to find out whodunit. PRICELESS. I love finding japanese pranks on youtube. Here’s a good one. YouTube Preview Image