"...Speaking of coffee pots" Department: Medical Author: J. Era: 1982 Date: 03/22/05 We had one butthead in our dept. who managed to break the large departmental coffee pot right after we got underway for a Med cruise......you can only imagine how angry this made everyone in the dept. Anyway, I think he spent the entire cruise doing nothing except refilling the smaller coffee pots for the Chiefs; every time I saw him, he was on his way to make more coffee. He was te same genius that decided it would be a nice thing to clean the Senior Chief's coffee cup! I swear you could hear that SC yell no matter where you happened to be on the ship at that moment in time. J.

Tagout Procedures Department: Rx Author: Peter Era: 1980 Date: 03/23/05 I'm sure 90% of us have been guilty of sleazing off a tagout at one time or another - either signing before hanging the tag, not verifying the valve/switch... whatever. Just that sometimes when you're busy things slip (or you get lazy). Anyway, Dan Dorais took "sleazing off tagouts" to a new level. One time, he had some maintenance that required a two valve tagout. I saw him working on the job during the day - then later on saw him up in EOS getting the tagout authorized!!?!? Turns out for whatever reason, he found it more expedient to do the work first and then get the paperwork filled out... Then there were the PMS's that involved hanging tags, waiting an hour to make it look like you did the PM, and then clearing tags. I remember a bitch-book entry made about me, describing my PMS tool kit... it was a drawing of a pen.

Shafted Department: Rx Author: Larry Era: 1981 Date: 03/23/05 I was on duty one morning in Norfolk and went down to the 2 RAR to pull some samples. When I got to the RAR I heard someone groaning and found MM1 Plubell tied to the Shaft. His pants were down around his ankles and he was draped over the shaft. His hands were tied and the rope was run around the shaft to his legs. I didn't get close enough to see if he had been greased. He heard me snicker and started cussing, so I ran off and told my buddies. I have no idea who strung him up but I wish I had taken a picture.

R___ Department: Rx Author: Teif Era: 1984 Date: 03/23/05 I think you guys are thinking of R___, He was a very strange dude. He and an M-divver wanted to get out of the navy so they wouldn't have to go on deployment. So they devised a plan.They knew that MMC palo(Onionhead)always did his Fill pump room tour during the first 15 minutes of watch so they set themselves up to look like R___ was going down on the M-divver.Onionhead of course catches them and writes them up for being Homo. Unfortunately for R___ and the M divver the command was slow processing the paperwork and they ended up making the cruise anyway. The reason why R___ acted so strange is that he wanted to try and speed things up by acting crazy so they would take him off the ship in a strait jacket. meanwhile, the mdivver catches the clap from one of his shipmates wives so Mike decides he has to catch the clap and drinks a cup of the mdivvers piss to get throat clap. What a moron!(Never mind that the wives hubby believed her when she told him that she caught it off a toilet seat)

M Div. vs. RM Div. Department: Rx Author: Peter Era: 1982 Date: 03/23/05 One other thing about MM2 R___, I remember a chief from M Div talking about the incident... He was proud of the fact that when R__ and his partner were caught, their guy was on top - and Rx department's guy was on the receiving end... I supose in his twisted little mind, he extended the whole episode into M Div shtupping RM Div. up the ass!

Gays in Rx Department Department: AIMD Author: Mike Matthys Era: 1993 Date: 03/24/05 We had a couple of guys use the "gay excuse" to get out of the Navy. They didn't have to get caught doing anything, they simply had to say that they were gay. Our department had Lt. jg (prior enlisted) going through quals. After he finished his quals, he was going to RC division. Anyhow, after a few weeks at sea doing carrier quals or Orse workups or some other crap, we pulled into St. Thomas for a few days. Apparently, this Lt.jg got caught behind a bar with an enlisted guy. He was gone the next day. The new joke was, "What is RC division's favorite movie?" "An officer and a signalman"

The 6 pack cruise Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 1980 Date: 03/26/05 In the IO in 1980, we were given 2 beers for each 90 days at sea. We got our first ones just before pulling into Singapore. We stood in a hot, long line on the flight deck for 2 warm beers, but they sure were good! A bunch of us were enjoying ours when Norbert Witkowski (the Polish Troll) showed up with 2 7-ups. I guess he didn't realize how many 7-ups he could have gotten for 2 beers! We were on our way to Australia in September when Saddam invaded Iran. They sent us back to Gonzo Station, but gave us 2 more beers. We were supposed to go to Kenya in November, but you guessed it, they cancelled it and gave us 2 more beers. We ended up doing 8 months at sea with only 5 days in Singapore and our 3 beer days. We also did a 92 day stretch at sea in the 83 Med, but didn't get a beer day. We pulled into Naples after 3 months of messing with Khadafy and keeping the peace off Beirut. Of course, the Marines got bombed and we were off to Beirut after 3 days in Naples. Ike was really biting then.

R____ Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 1981 Date: 03/26/05 R___ was a strange one in addition to Ronald Jones. One good thing about R___ was he bought a laser disc player and a bunch of movies and copied them onto the Betamax tapes for us to enjoy. After he got out, he sent us a bunch of movies and music videos, also. Those sure made the days at sea more bearable. I just can't figure why someone would go to the lengths he did to get out of the Navy. I guess he had his reasons.

Morroco Department: Rx Author: Jim Bacquet (dog dart) Era: 1979 Date: 03/26/05 On my first shore leave I stumbled upon a "hash house" deep in the market area. One of the locals sought me out and let me try a hit of the finest stuff I had, or have ever, seen. I got a 20 gram chunk for $10 american and immediately had to figure out how to smuggle it back on the ship. I finally came up with wrapping it in a cigarette wrapper and stuffing it into a Mennens talcum powder container. Not only did it make it past the drug dogs but it also gave the rest of the cruise a lovely menthol flavor in the "castle" (that was the little supply room we had transformed into a lounge). I was one of the most popular guys in RL division for the next six weeks.

The Sunny Side Up Cafe Department: Rx Author: Charlie Era: 1982 Date: 03/26/05 Back before Va Beach got all built up, there was this dive on the beachfront called the Sunny Side Up Cafe. The Noodle Gang stumbled in there one night and there was an English guy playing his guitar and singing to a mostly empty house. He did a rendition of Yellow Submarine, and we all felt obliged to rambunctiously join him in song. He took it in stride and even started shouting out the lyrics, even drowning out Pete R. During a break, Wags struck up a conversation with the guy, Derek Parrott. He said he was working on an album. Of course, no one believed him, and we only saw him a few more times before we were out to sea again. About a year later, Wags received an initial release copy of Derek's album in the mail.