Sea Bags

[Subdeacon Joe]

US sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station standing behind rolled out sea bags and awaiting inspection, 1940 !

photo by: Bernard Hoffman

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[Colorado Coffinmaker]

 

Photo no Bueno amigo.  Just Pixels

[Eyesa Horg]

Try this...

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122182413992197190&set=a.122093438552197190&__cft__[0]=AZV2m2pdPMG-yx6wxl1cjzScUQ4kaExotS-3zOOiPjxff2Q18stcGSx96t5UyXKsVYetTU6tnmi1S_BLCqfZwjCbXhbluoIbdEvPD0Nt25mMA1mlUXEusCofeoUO6osLpRC4HiN_N5WiItmh5wWeTSjEjQVpYtmy7hT-fsoN7X8sx9uEllZxS8aRjnBMGFUNwVVYEymespXczelOsa6f9S2ZjFpoR1UY2mm22VOX2Xr3zyw6g2l2EUZR2qI20Ud8RS4&__tn__=EH-R

Edited October 9, 2024 by Eyesa Horg

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:

 

Photo no Bueno amigo.  Just Pixels

 

3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

US sailors at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station standing behind rolled out sea bags

 

Highlight that,  select "Web Search," the select "Images."

 

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Try this...

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122182413992197190&set=a.122093438552197190&__cft__[0]=AZV2m2pdPMG-yx6wxl1cjzScUQ4kaExotS-3zOOiPjxff2Q18stcGSx96t5UyXKsVYetTU6tnmi1S_BLCqfZwjCbXhbluoIbdEvPD0Nt25mMA1mlUXEusCofeoUO6osLpRC4HiN_N5WiItmh5wWeTSjEjQVpYtmy7hT-fsoN7X8sx9uEllZxS8aRjnBMGFUNwVVYEymespXczelOsa6f9S2ZjFpoR1UY2mm22VOX2Xr3zyw6g2l2EUZR2qI20Ud8RS4&__tn__=EH-R

 

I have a feeling that won't help him.   If I recall he's scared of FB.

[Eyesa Horg]

6 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

Highlight that,  select "Web Search," the select "Images."

 

 

I have a feeling that won't help him.   If I recall he's scared of FB.

I don't do FB either but it shows on my phone,so I just copied the link for him and I can open it without a FB account.

[Pat Riot]

@Colorado Coffinmaker this should help.

 

 

When I was in boot camp we had open faced lockers. We stowed everything per boot regs. Everything folded or rolled just so. We were inspected often and often everything we owned in the world was tossed and strewn about because one “Rock” or “Maggot” didn’t follow instructions or pay attention to detail.

Toward the end we had seabag inspections similar to this. 
Good Times! 

[Sedalia Dave]

Notice the hammocks tied up and hoisted to the ceiling. Wonder what's in them to make them look like there is a dead body inside.

[Pat Riot]

1 minute ago, Sedalia Dave said:

Notice the hammocks tied up and hoisted to the ceiling. Wonder what's in them to make them look like there is a dead body inside.

Blanket, sheet, pillow?

[Texas Lizard]

1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:

Blanket, sheet, pillow?

I thought the girls that are hiding...

 

Texas Lizard

[Alpo]

Kind of reminds me of Daddy walking down the hall yelling SHOW A LEG!

[Chief Rick]

2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

We were inspected often and often everything we owned in the world was tossed and strewn about because one “Rock” or “Maggot” didn’t follow instructions or pay attention to detail.

I went to boot camp in Orlando - these were called hurricanes when I went through...

[Pat Riot]

2 hours ago, Chief Rick said:

I went to boot camp in Orlando - these were called hurricanes when I went through...

That’s a good one! 
 

In Great Lakes it was “Awe Sh**! They’re doing it again!” 
They were really nice about it once they were done messing up our (stuff). They gave us a whole 10 minutes to clean it up and get our (stuff) squared away. 

(stuff) = Sh** 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

5 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

 

(stuff) = Sh** 

 

 Shoes ? 🙃

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

25 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said:

 

 Shoes ? 🙃

 

Naw... that'd be "sh***"  

[Chief Rick]

3 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

That’s a good one! 
 

In Great Lakes it was “Awe Sh**! They’re doing it again!” 
They were really nice about it once they were done messing up our (stuff). They gave us a whole 10 minutes to clean it up and get our (stuff) squared away. 

(stuff) = Sh** 

It didn't happen to my company, but one day mattresses ended up outside the barracks.

 

Our barracks were three-story units.  Males were on the first and second decks, females on the third.

 

Not sure where they came from.  That's a question you only asked if you wanted yours to end up outside.

[Ozark Huckleberry]

AOCS, one Drill Instructor had a trick of taking the trigger group out of the M1s in lockers that had been left unsecured while the class was out of the spaces. When they came back, he'd call the class on line for rifle drill. We learned quickly that when he started with, 'Right shoulder -- ARMS', and then went to 'Port -- ARMS', there were going to be a few candidates worked down to a puddle after they were left with two pieces connected by a sling.

 

That was when he didn't want to deal with tossing the entire class.

 

Another trick with unsecured lockers -- use the corner of the locker's metal trim on the door to punch a hole in the can of shave cream, toss it into the locker, close the door.

Edited October 11, 2024 by Ozark Huckleberry

[Widder, SASS #59054]

Chief Rick,

I was at Orlando summer of 69.   I was either a 'slug' or a 'maggot' when a spec of 'invisible' dust was found on my

t-shirt collar.

I had to crawl around the barracks floor....... circular, on my elbows.

 

Those inspectors put the fear of God in me when they showed up.

 

One funny story:   Although I didn't look like Gomer Pyle, I could imitate him when I said.... "GOLLY".  (Gaaawwwleeee).

Being from Tennessee, I had the right slang.

 

Our CC ask me to give a 'Golly' to one of the inspectors one day during an inspection.   I declined until he assured me that

he would be there to prevent any ' physical encounter' that might occur and/or keep me from having to do 50 pushups.

 

Anyhow, here I stand, all 5'9",  about  150 lbs, and this tough looking, dog barking, FIRE BREATHING chief is standing in

front of me.  For sure, he finds something wrong to blame me.   I looked him right in the eye and said.... "Gaaawwwleeeee".

 

There was a sudden silence for a brief moment..... then that chief muttered a few words known only to Sailors, looked

to his side and saw my CC laughing, and walked off.    I would swear that he was doing his best not to laugh or smile.

 

..........Widder

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

On 10/9/2024 at 10:44 AM, Alpo said:

Kind of reminds me of Daddy walking down the hall yelling SHOW A LEG!

 

"Wakey, wakey, Lash and Stow!"