Subdeacon Joe Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 U.S. Navy As an immediate action to help support health protection efforts, the U.S. Navy has directed the proper cleaning of all personal coffee mugs or “Chief's Mugs,” at least once per week, during cleaning stations. NAVADMIN 04/01 — SUBJ/NAVY SERVICE WIDE CLEANING OF CHIEF'S MUGS. READ NOW: https://go.usa.gov/xH3MX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 I ain’t a chief, nor even been in the Navy, but my cousin (retired CPO) clued me in on that one. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Sloe Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 If'n that's true, there's going to be some mighty pissed off Chiefs. BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 So who's the 1D10T that declared war on Chief Petty Officers??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Note today’s date gentlemen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 37 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Note today’s date gentlemen. And click on the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustin Checotah Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 9 hours ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Note today’s date gentlemen. That is just what I was thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Okiepan Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Ain't gonna happen, But a good April Fools Day, Bring it in the the Goat Locker to see some feathers get ruffled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 You know, I had never heard of this ancient Chief's custom of turning the insides of the coffee cup into a layer of sludge until I started coming here to the Saloon (dammit otto, ALWAYS Capitalize Saloon - don't mess with me boy, it's too damn early in the morning). I realized, after reading all these comments over the years, how much my father must have loved my mother. Daddy retired after 21 years as a Senior Chief. Mama washed the dishes after they were used. Which meant that his breakfast coffee cup got washed after breakfast. His supper coffee cup got washed after supper. And even though you wash them, coffee stains so much that eventually the interior of the cup will turn brownish. Many times over the years I would smell bleach, and look in the kitchen sink and there would be coffee cups sitting in there with a mixture of Clorox and water, bleaching the inside of the cups white again. OH THE HUMANITY!!! And I never heard him take her to task. Never heard him complain. Just continued drinking his coffee from a (the horrors) clean cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 2, 2021 Author Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 hour ago, Alpo said: And I never heard him take her to task. Never heard him complain. Just continued drinking his coffee from a (the horrors) clean cup. Work is work, home is home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 That is so true. Boy Scout camp. Visitors day. This car comes pulling in, stops and a man gets out. I know him. He's retired Navy. Got out a couple years after Daddy did. Yells to his kid, "Johnny, where's the head?", and his son points to the latrine (Boy Scouts don't have "heads", they have latrines). But that caused a wonder. So I asked Daddy, "Why don't you say head and deck and galley and all those Navy terms?" He told me he was retired. I told him I had never heard him use them, ever ever ever, even back when he was still in. He told me when he was at sea he would pee in the head, and sleep in a rack and walk on the deck. But when he was home he slept in the bed and walked on the floor and used the bathroom, just like normal people. "It's my job, not my life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozark Huckleberry Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Coming back from a cruise, I’d have to start reprogramming my language about a week before we pulled in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 He asked me one morning what time it was. Wasn't wearing his watch. I go out in the kitchen and look at the clock and tell him that it is 0875. Huh??? Well if 8AM is 0800, and 9 AM is 0900, then logically 3/4 of the way between 0800 and 0900 would be 0875. And that's when a nine year old boy got a lesson in military time telling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 6 hours ago, Ozark Huckleberry said: Coming back from a cruise, I’d have to start reprogramming my language about a week before we pulled in. Same here. The first time I went home on leave from the ship I apparently cussed a blue streak and didn’t realize it until someone said something. The funniest thing I did was put all the dishes away so if the apartment complex rolled no dishes would come out of the cabinets and get broken. Of course there was booze involved. My wife still laughs about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Falcon, SASS # 46139 Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Any idiot knows that if you cleanse a coffee mug, that ruins it. Then you have to destroy it. I've heard the same philosophy applies to pipe bowls (the smoking kind). PF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 8 hours ago, Alpo said: He asked me one morning what time it was. Wasn't wearing his watch. I go out in the kitchen and look at the clock and tell him that it is 0875. Huh??? Well if 8AM is 0800, and 9 AM is 0900, then logically 3/4 of the way between 0800 and 0900 would be 0875. And that's when a nine year old boy got a lesson in military time telling. How many bells is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Is halfway between 1 and 2 bells on the morning watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 One bell and a jingle of the forenoon watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 46 minutes ago, Alpo said: Is halfway between 1 and 2 bells on the morning watch. Morning watch is 0400 to 0800. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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