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Navy Word of the Day 04/07/08
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Posted: Monday, April 07, 2008 - 12:20 AM UTC
Ahoy Shipmates!

Continuing on with your Naval education we bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 04:12 AM UTC
How do you know a recruiter is lying? His lips are moving....

Reminds me of DCO school in Pensacola, the Gunnys had to tell us NOT to greet the "re-crew-its" or return their "Good Morning SIR!" salutes...
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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 04:33 AM UTC
I forgot that prospective officers had Gunnys for their training. That had to be fun.

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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 04:59 AM UTC

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I forgot that prospective officers had Gunnys for their training. That had to be fun.



Try being raised by one....
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Posted: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 - 02:43 PM UTC

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I forgot that prospective officers had Gunnys for their training. That had to be fun.



oh its worse than that.. we were Direct Commission Os, means we showed up in Pensacola with LT bars in place and clueless for TWO weeks of schooling. Just imagine a bunch of medical, nurse and medical service corps newbies attempting to form themselves up (or dont!). Gunny was losing his patience as we are attempting close order drills when a platoon of OCS re-crew-its marches by in good formation. He turns around, blasts them with obscenities and the usual "Gunny talk". Then he turns to us DCO officers, takes a deep breath and says to our clueless platoon leader "Sir, with all due respect, your facing manuevers suck". Then we broke for coffee break lol...

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Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 12:15 AM UTC

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I forgot that prospective officers had Gunnys for their training. That had to be fun.



oh its worse than that.. we were Direct Commission Os, means we showed up in Pensacola with LT bars in place and clueless for TWO weeks of schooling. Just imagine a bunch of medical, nurse and medical service corps newbies attempting to form themselves up (or dont!). Gunny was losing his patience as we are attempting close order drills when a platoon of OCS re-crew-its marches by in good formation. He turns around, blasts them with obscenities and the usual "Gunny talk". Then he turns to us DCO officers, takes a deep breath and says to our clueless platoon leader "Sir, with all due respect, your facing manuevers suck". Then we broke for coffee break lol...




I forgot some staff officers go direct as DCOs. That had to be funny. I remember our first few days at RTC Orlando we were a mess. I am so glad we had regular Navy guys as our CC’s.

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Posted: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 - 12:17 AM UTC

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I forgot that prospective officers had Gunnys for their training. That had to be fun.



Try being raised by one....


I've heard stories. I work with one now.

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