The Fuck You Bar Department: Rx Author: Mike Matthys Era: 1990 Date: 05/26/05 Reading that story about the Naples' restaurant (I ate there, by the way) reminded me of another interesting place. We were in Haifa and I was out with a few of the guys. We drank at a bar until it closed, then headed out into the streets and wandered around for awhile. I don't know how the hell we found it, but we found this place we dubbed "the fuck you bar". We walked into this place and there is a woman tending bar with a baseball hat on that has a hand with the middle finger extended. Our drink order went something like this: "Excuse me, could I get 4..." "Fuck you!!" "Uhm, I would like 4..." "Fuck you!! Fuck everybody!!" I think this was the only English this woman knew. As we looked around, we noticed there were some shady looking characters in the place. We found out later that a lot of "mercenaries" hung out there.

Elmo Department: Rx Author: Richie Era: 1983 Date: 05/26/05 Hey Elmo, I have to say, I wasn't sure who you were until I saw pete's pics. Now I remember you. You are right I hated IKE more then most, but like I stated I am more humble now. I only wish I could turn back the hands of time and redo things, but I can't. I would do it differently now. I will say, the "Whiz Quiz" thing was a good thing. It's been 20 years, and I've experienced absolutely no repracutions from my decision. I've done quite well. When I left IKE, I realize that I had no interest in playing the nuke game in private life. I embrassed another career and done quite well. I understand that many others followed in my foot steps. Joe Kernich, Ron Caruso among others. I wish I could have copyrighted it. LOL.

Favorite Watch Station Department: Rx Author: peter Era: 1984 Date: 05/26/05 By far my favorite watch to stand was CRW. - You could roam the entire plant and not be told to get the hell back to your watchstation by some khaki. I suppose PPWS could have been just as nice, however once I qualified, I spent almost every watch fast asleep on the mat behind the load dispatcher. Of course, I had to stay awake when those bastards ran drills on us. If I were to give advice to a nub, it would be to qualify FPW first. Then it's easy to get your CSW card signed off, and it's just a short step from there to RAW which was by far the easiest (and coolest) watch (for MM's that is.) PS. What's a whiz quiz? - is that slang for urinalysis?

Whiz Quiz Department: Rx Author: Elmo Era: 1985 Date: 05/26/05 Pete first you are correct I misspoke about this website being for hating Ike because the stories make the memories better. Secondly yes Whiz Quiz is a urinanalysis (sp?), when they came out with the zero tolerence policy for the Navy alot of people chose to smoke pot to get out. (Kind of like Mike R. and the gay thing.) And as Rich said there were no repercussions.

Whiz Quiz 2 Department: Rx Author: Elmo Era: 1985 Date: 05/26/05 When you got popped on a whiz quiz you got restriction, extra duty, and brig time if I remember correctly. Well a guy from 1 plant Dave R. had a brother who was a CO on a tin can or something and just kicked the people out for failing a piss test. Dave told him that the people probably started smoking just to get out, well his brother changed the policy for his ship and told others about it and changed their ships policies to be restriction, extra duty, and brig time for failing a urinanalysis. I'm sure alot of people would have been pissed if they knew that.

Watch Stations Department: Rx Author: Mike Era: 1988 Date: 05/27/05 Peter -- CRW was definitely my favorite watchstation, also. I hated being confined to just one place. But the best thing of all was -- NO LOGS!!. After a couple of problems, the khaki bastards tried to make us write out a log sheet for watch turnover -- that lasted about two days and we quit doing it. I used to relieve this one guy who never had a fucking clue as to what was going on in the plant. After getting burned a couple of times by this guy, I show up for watch one night and he says "Split, crit, same old shit." As he started to leave, I said, "Hey--wait a minute. Have you got vacuum drag or make up feed aligned to any CG condensers?" He says, "I don't know." "What MFPs are running?" Again, "I don't know." I told him, "I'll tell you what...you make a tour of the plant and find out what the fuck is going on, and I will relieve you. Until then, you got the watch." He looked at me and said, "You're kidding" I said, "No, I'm not kidding. You never know what the fuck is going on in the plant because you park your ass on CGUL and don't move. Go find out what's going on." He bitched about it, but did it. From that day on, he always knew what was going on in the plant.

Getting an early out Department: Rx Author: peter Era: 1979 Date: 05/27/05 This advice is coming to you guys a bit too late - however here's a novel way of getting out of the Navy early. In Nuke school, one of the students got a Medical Discharge because one day in class he took a knife and tried to slit his wrists. This guy was sitting there, sawing back and forth on his wirst with a knife and had to be tackled and the knife grabbed away from him so he wouldn't die. Oh, and the knife? - It was a BUTTER KNIFE! - didn't even break the skin!!! - and the guy still got out!

Whiz Quiz saga Cont. Department: Rx Author: Richie Era: 1983 Date: 05/27/05 For me, the zero tolorance was still new, so I guess they wised up after a while. No brig time. When I met with clexton, it lasted about 30 seconds and basically I received reduction back to E-4 (like it mattered, when I got home who cared), half pay for two months ( like the pay was enough to do anything with...), and restriction ( I had to clean up after all you slobs in berthing for two months). The way I see it, the half pay was nothing more then an early cancellation fee, similar to what you would pay a cell phone company for cancelling your service before contract expiration. The Rate thing was funny too. I lucked out on that one. Back then, they kissed the nukes ass and waived "Time in Rate". I was frocked to E-5 in my 13th month in the Navy, at Nuke School. Nukes seemed to do good on the test because they used a curve. The non nukes, seemed to not be so bright (MM's) and basic logic could pull you through. Especially after Nuke school, taking test's seemed easy.

More Nuke Advice Department: Rx Author: peter Era: 1982 Date: 05/27/05 Another piece of advice for anyone in the Navy. Try to get assigned as WatchBill PO. In #2 plant, our watchbill PO (Jeff J.) had no qualms about giving himself the best watches. This guy never stood the hot, unpleasant watches - always gave himself CRW or RAW. When we were crossing time zones he'd never be on the 5 hour watch, but would always be on the 3 hour watch comming home. He would frequently give himself a 4 and 12 while the rest of us were on 4 and 8's. Not only was this guy a skate on watch... but he was also the supply PO. - while the rest of us were toiling away in the plants, Jeff was "working" in the airconditioned supply office. I have a feeling in all divisions, the watchbill PO probably abused his power. - I know I would have!

Why????? Department: Rx Author: Richie Era: 2005 Date: 05/27/05 I tried to go to ike's official website and it took me to the main navy site instead. While I was there, I read how Ike participated in a multi nation exercise with the French yada, yada, yada. But I stumbled on to something else that just absolutely amazed me. Apparently in the wisdom of the Navy, they found it necessary to come up with goggles that simulate intoxication. Squids put these goggles on, then try to walk a straight line. If you don't beleive me, here's the link. you can copy and paste it into your browser. http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=24737 The first question I asked myself is: Why would they need special goggles to simulate intoxication. All they had to do was visit the nukes on IKE. Plenty of intoxication there...