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The Navy dress blues (the black uniform) isn't comfortable but is very warm in winter since it's made of wool. I hated the 13 buttons for the pants. Several guys who had to wear that uniform on a regular basis had the 13 buttons sewn to the outside flaps and velcro sewn into the inside of the flaps. Came in handy when the beer passed through the body or a girl wanted to offer her "support". Though the whites were cooler (temperature), they were a very big pain in the backside. It was a magnet for dirt of anykind. I swear you could get dirty in that thing standing still for 5 minutes. They've been making changes to the Navy's working dress uniforms. They resemble the Marines working uniform with short sleeves.
I HATE THOSE UNIFORMS!!!!! The only advantage to the blue is that it looks better than the white.
They're a biotch to iron, the whites attract all kinds of stains I had to get out (at one point living in a house of 3 Nukes at once), and dont EVEN get me started on those buttons. They've almost ruined several occasions....
lol His was here in Charleston. And I do know he did get mandatory study hours in Nuke school...not sure how many. I cant ask him anything right now because his ship is out to sea at the moment...the email SUCKS.
Two more years and he's out...and he has a standing job offer from a Nuclear plant already.
We've done 4 years so far long distance.
Oh poor you! The email sucks! GGrrrrrrrrr. Was in the navy before ships had email or satellite TV or cell phones. Was in Desert Storm when my first wife told me in a letter she was pregnant. Letter was close to about two weeks old. When I got on my first ship, sailors were being paid in cash! Direct Deposit was just catching on but not mandatory yet. Ask him if he's tried Bilge Wine. Horrible stuff.
I HATE THOSE UNIFORMS!!!!! The only advantage to the blue is that it looks better than the white.
They're a biotch to iron, the whites attract all kinds of stains I had to get out (at one point living in a house of 3 Nukes at once), and dont EVEN get me started on those buttons. They've almost ruined several occasions....
We always sent the dress blues off to the cleaners and kept them folded properly to maintain the creases. As for the buttons, take them to a tailor or seamstress and have the buttons sewen on the outside of the flaps and velcro sewn on the inside of the flaps. Then you can rip them off quick when he gets home. The dress blues look fantastic when combined with white gloves, white duty belt, and white leggens.
We always sent the dress blues off to the cleaners and kept them folded properly to maintain the creases. As for the buttons, take them to a tailor or seamstress and have the buttons sewen on the outside of the flaps and velcro sewn on the inside of the flaps. Then you can rip them off quick when he gets home. The dress blues look fantastic when combined with white gloves, white duty belt, and white leggens.
Sometimes they'd be down to their last uniform, or the other was at the cleaners and it was an emergency, etc, and I'd have to iron the uniform because somehow it'd gotten messed up.
I played Snow White to 3 Navy dwarfs (each over 6ft tall...)
Sometimes they'd be down to their last uniform, or the other was at the cleaners and it was an emergency, etc, and I'd have to iron the uniform because somehow it'd gotten messed up.
I played Snow White to 3 Navy dwarfs (each over 6ft tall...)
Never understood why so many tall guys go on submarines. I'm 5'5" tall and I went surface ships. Tall guys would hit their head on some low hanging valve. As they wince in pain, I'd stand under the valve and say, "you hit your head on this?" and point to the valve over and not touching my head. Served me right when I cut my head open on a thin piece of sheetmetal someone used as a sign. Would have seen it if it was facing the passageway. Nope, it was facing an office door in the passageway. So the corner dug into my scalp.
"Why is there so much remorse among Vietnam vets? Because they are reflecting on the fact that they killed innocent human beings for no other reason than because they were trained to obey the commands of people who were lying to them.:
You couldn't be FURTHER from the truth. Most Vietnam Veterans are NOT remorseful. The problems those veteran's ran into, are people such as yourself, who put them down, refused to give them jobs, and treated them poorly upon their return. LIBERALS treated them so poorly and their was such an overall hatred of that war, by LIBERALS (even in 1975 50% of the country was still in favor of the war), the veteran's themselves, started to question what they did. As time has healed, they have come to realize what they did was right. And please, very few "innocent" civilians were killed by soldiers/Marines on the ground. Most were killed by the bombing campaigns and the pilots had no clue who they were killing. You've been reading and watching too much propaganda. In fact, MOST Vietnam Veterans never saw a day of combat. For every infantry soldier, you need 4 persons in support of them. Do the math.
Liberals hate the military, because they think the world can get along with peace, love, and understanding. They want the money which is being spent on the military, given to them, so they can work less, do less, and get more from everyone else.
Just remember, more problems have been resolved, throughout history, by the use of brute force, then ANY OTHER way, combined.
Never understood why so many tall guys go on submarines. I'm 5'5" tall and I went surface ships. Tall guys would hit their head on some low hanging valve. As they wince in pain, I'd stand under the valve and say, "you hit your head on this?" and point to the valve over and not touching my head. Served me right when I cut my head open on a thin piece of sheetmetal someone used as a sign. Would have seen it if it was facing the passageway. Nope, it was facing an office door in the passageway. So the corner dug into my scalp.
None of them were submarines, hon. My sailor refused to sign up for one.
"Why is there so much remorse among Vietnam vets? Because they are reflecting on the fact that they killed innocent human beings for no other reason than because they were trained to obey the commands of people who were lying to them.:
You couldn't be FURTHER from the truth. Most Vietnam Veterans are NOT remorseful. The problems those veteran's ran into, are people such as yourself, who put them down, refused to give them jobs, and treated them poorly upon their return. LIBERALS treated them so poorly and their was such an overall hatred of that war, by LIBERALS (even in 1975 50% of the country was still in favor of the war), the veteran's themselves, started to question what they did. As time has healed, they have come to realize what they did was right. And please, very few "innocent" civilians were killed by soldiers/Marines on the ground. Most were killed by the bombing campaigns and the pilots had no clue who they were killing. You've been reading and watching too much propaganda. In fact, MOST Vietnam Veterans never saw a day of combat. For every infantry soldier, you need 4 persons in support of them. Do the math.
Liberals hate the military, because they think the world can get along with peace, love, and understanding. They want the money which is being spent on the military, given to them, so they can work less, do less, and get more from everyone else.
Just remember, more problems have been resolved, throughout history, by the use of brute force, then ANY OTHER way, combined.
Really? Then back it up.
You see, my father obliterated entire villages. His orders. Killed women and children.
And when he couldn't keep it together anymore, he was a homeless vet.
He kept a rifle in the back of the car.
Better yet, let me tell you about the time that the state stepped in and said, get a place to live and stay sober or we take your kid off the street and make her a ward of the state. So, he gets an apartment and I move in and I find him under the desk on the phone with a childrens shelter drunk. My father wasn't a drinker prior to, but drank extensively after. He is on the phone telling them that he has killed children. Drunk. These people have not one iota what he is referring to. No clue.
And just to make this perfect: guess who is employer was at that point?
The IRS. Functional. Homeless.
It took 25 years. The oldest of the brothers? He 'effin went to Iraq the first time around. The next? He came home and reenlisted because he cannot deal with what is going on here. Not because there is some oasis here. Only the second time around he took the next brother.
You people minimize the crap.
You aren't prepared to take care of ours that are coming home now.
And to this day, my father saw 9/11 and said, lets go get the bad guys. We went to Iraq? He said, hell no and started doing radio.
And do you have any idea the number of soldiers that were killed by our own?
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