Tunn Tavern to be Recreated

[Sedalia Dave]

HOMECOMING 250 IS BRINGING THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS TO THEIR BIRTHPLACE TO CELEBRATE THEIR 250TH!

[Pat Riot]

I learned about the Tunn Tavern in boot camp. The instructor took great pleasure in making sure we understood that the Continental Navy (US Navy) was formed a month before the Marines. One guy in our company stood and corrected him stating that the Marines were born 27 days later, not a month - his Dad was a Marine we learned later. 

He spent the next 45 minutes or so in push-up position next to the instructor’s dais. 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

13 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

He spent the next 45 minutes or so in push-up position next to the instructor’s dais. 

He was lucky.  Any other branch and he would have been doing a series of push ups interspersed between the "dead roach" position.  Ask me how I know. 

[Pat Riot]

5 minutes ago, Tex Jones, SASS 2263 said:

He was lucky.  Any other branch and he would have been doing a series of push ups interspersed between the "dead roach" position.  Ask me how I know. 

Actually, if I remember correctly, he got into a lot of trouble in boot camp. He spent  lot of time in Mo-Tor (motivational training) Two hours every evening doing exercises with 16# rifles under the watchful eyes of Navy SEALs
That guy wasn’t real sharp. He couldn’t keep his mouth shut. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

11 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

He couldn’t keep his mouth shut. 

 

Warrant Officer material!

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Warrant Officer material!

Oh no…deck ape

The three CWO’s I knew in the Navy were not very talkative and when they talked you had better be listening and doing. 

[Mud Marine,SASS#54686 Life]

I was a stickler for the truth.  I

I spent my time getting knocked 

Into the wallboard. My SDI was close to tears when I was selected for crystologic analyst.

 He wanted me to  get the shit knocked.out of me as a grunt.

 

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Warrant Officer material!

Careful!  My SIL retired from the Corps as a CW5  (only went to 4 when I was in) and he's not someone you want to take offense at you.

[Subdeacon Joe]

I should clarify - by "warrant officer material" i meant about the jaw-jacking.  The Warrants at my dad's VFW post were some of the most unfiltered talkers I ever met.   Didn't care who heard them.  

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

11 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

I learned about the Tunn Tavern in boot camp. The instructor took great pleasure in making sure we understood that the Continental Navy (US Navy) was formed a month before the Marines. One guy in our company stood and corrected him stating that the Marines were born 27 days later, not a month - his Dad was a Marine we learned later. 

He spent the next 45 minutes or so in push-up position next to the instructor’s dais. 

The Navy was disbanded and then reinstated a few years later, making the Marines the oldest continuous military force in the USA.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

The Navy was disbanded and then reinstated a few years later, making the Marines the oldest continuous military force in the USA.

You were there back then, weren't you Forty?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Yes, but I was very young then. 

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

Once it's completed, I'm definitely stopping there for a pint (or two). May even take my son, a USMC Major, along.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

13 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

You were there back then, weren't you Forty?

 

13 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Yes, but I was very young then. 

I think that I heard a story about you from back then. It's said that you were the first Marine recruited by Captain Nicholas. He was so thrilled that he bought you a beer. When he recruited another guy, he bought him TWO beers. Seeing that, you were reported to have said, "Back in the Old Corps, a man only got ONE beer for enlisting."  

[Pat Riot]

16 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

The Navy was disbanded and then reinstated a few years later, making the Marines the oldest continuous military force in the USA.

Yeah, but the Marines are a department of the Navy so…. 
 

What did the Marines do from the time the Continental Congress sold off the Navy ships until 1790? Did you all swim to where the action was or were they disbanded as well?

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Just now, Pat Riot said:

Yeah, but the Marines are a department of the Navy so…. 
 

What did the Marines do from the time the Continental Congress sold off the Navy ships until 1790? Did you all swim to where the action was or were they disbanded as well?

We've covered this before, The Marines ARE a Department of the Navy, The MEN'S Department.  And I have it on good authority that Marines WALK to a lot of places that others refuse to ride to. 

[Pat Riot]

12 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

We've covered this before, The Marines ARE a Department of the Navy, The MEN'S Department.  And I have it on good authority that Marines WALK to a lot of places that others refuse to ride to. 

It figures you all would use a department store as your analogy. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Come on, guys.  Let's play nice.  After all the Navy is sort of like an ally.  Hell, they declared war on Japan the same time we did....and if it weren't for the Navy we'd have to find doctors and corpsmen some place else, swab decks, spend money on those huge cruise ships the Navy uses, and wear funny uniforms.

[Colorado Coffinmaker]

I don't see where building a "replica" of an old building, somewhere it wasn't originally accomplishes anything.  Might as well put in Knots Berry Farm.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

21 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

 

I think that I heard a story about you from back then. It's said that you were the first Marine recruited by Captain Nicholas. He was so thrilled that he bought you a beer. When he recruited another guy, he bought him TWO beers. Seeing that, you were reported to have said, "Back in the Old Corps, a man only got ONE beer for enlisting."  

Close.   The newbie got a beer and a sandwich and my exact words were "Huh!  By God, it wasn't like that in the Old Corps."