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Ah Millington. My first real exposure to Safety Pudding.....

Not to get off the subject of coffee or anything.

Mmmm, Safety Pudding. Barely had time at GLAKES to eat let alone analyze me food, thus Millington being my first notice....

OK, ya got me now !! WTF is "safety pudding" ?? That's a term I've never heard

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Originally posted by HAL9000:

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Originally posted by Thor:
Especially from the nightcheck techs !! Plenty of time to set stuff up, do our "misdeeds" and be gone !!

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Uh....nitecheck is how I planned and staged my WOG revolt...

But that sea story is for another thread....LOL

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Hehe, not sure how the revolt went in YOUR area H_A_L, but the one they started up in Air Dept - went pretty poorly (for the wogs at least )The shellbacks had a GOOD time though!

I of course lost my revolt. But it did make my bench partner upset.

I was a 3rd class and a Polywog and he was a 2nd class and a shellback.

Well, I got 'preferential' treatment. LOL

We tarred and feathered the XO and the Air Boss!! The CO was barricaded on the bridge!

Once, I went up to the squadron AT space...they gave me..an I level puke....the duct tape to the chair, pink belly AND the white out...LOL.

This was done so I could go up on the roof with them to do a weekly on a Prowler...at night..with a little blue light.

I swore off any O level voluntary cross training after that. Not my cup o Coffee...

When I became a shellback (in 1984 on the USS Robison, DDG-12), the wog revolt was outstanding! The shellbacks were having a planning meeting in the Goat Locker ... there was a hasp on the outside of the door... , we put a padlock in the hasp, turned the lights out, turned the phone off at the switchboard, and secured the A/C to the space! Since we were in the middle of the PG (Persian Gulf) - it got pretty nasty in there quick!
We left them in there for almost an hour! They were pretty much of a mess when they got out!

They had to admit that it was the best wog revolt that they had ever seen!

BUT, you can bet your ass that we paid for it!

HAL,

You ever go below-decks and get greased?

SD, don't think that the machinery spaces were sacrosanct for "greasings". We did that to a few that happened to venture onto the hangar deck. Of course,that was before the whineys took hold and made that kind of stuff "illegal"

Thor and all,
I wonder what 'initiation' is like now in the CANDYASS PC world??

What "initiation" ?!?!?!? Hell, it got to the point that we couldn't even tack on a crow!! I remember to this day there is only ONE person that ever made me cry when he tacked on my crow. It was some skinny-assed runt AEC !!! Granted there were abuses with that, people using elbows and the like. Broken arms weren't terribly uncommon, but that's because some assholes didn't know when to let up or just didn't care.

Just for the non-Sailor people, "tacking on a crow" was a tradition for when one first made jr NCO and every subsequent promotion through E-6. It consisted of a whallop to the rating badge, aka "stripes" while the initiant was wearing them. The Marines can probably relate to it more than anybody.

Had my Third Class Crow tacked on. Ruined my sex life for a week.

Dawg,
I didn't know you were a corpsman????

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Originally posted by Surface Dog:
Had my Third Class Crow tacked on. Ruined my sex life for a week.

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Dog, you must be left handed !!

There used to be "right arm rates" but you ain't THAT old !!

saipan.

Quartermaster. Is that some kind of crack about Corpsmen? Not that I mind, just 'splain it to me.