"In the Navy..."

[otter]

Well, I know the Marines have Semper Fi, and the Air Force has Clear Skies...

What's the motto for the Navy? Don't drown?

In the SS our motto was "Submariners do it deeper"

How do you want to avoid gay jokes,with all the stories about a bunch of men on a ship for months without women,its just like jail they needed to fuck something.

The gay joke in the sub fleet was 101 men go down and 50 couples come up....and 1 whore, the captain!

Another was a sub that ran into a gay whale. It put its mouth over the periscope and sucked out all the "seamen"

So, wish me the best of (good) luck, and keep me informed on the goings on of next week! Next time I show up here (I doubt I'll be on Monday, but I might) you'll be talking to a Midshipman who will, if all goes as planned, be an Ensign in the USNR in four years, and eventually in the Regular Navy afterwards.

Let us know how the "operation" went after your commissioning

[Kamakazie Sith]

Air Power!

Will soon be obsolete. All hail the mobile laser!

Err Space Power?

[RogueIce]

Well, I know the Marines have Semper Fi, and the Air Force has Clear Skies...

What's the motto for the Navy? Don't drown?

While that's good advice, I don't think that's it.

I heard a lot of jargon today. Come Aboard, drop anchor, and some other goodies. Give me a few months or so and I'll have it down pat for ya.

[otter]

I heard a lot of jargon today. Come Aboard, drop anchor, and some other goodies. Give me a few months or so and I'll have it down pat for ya.

Hey, if you get lucky to do your middy tour on a nuke ship volunteer to go back to manuvering and blow the EOOW. Its good training, and being an officer, you'll be doing a lot of it

Oh, and ask about getting suited up to retrieve the mail buoy while out at sea

[Tsyroc]

I heard a lot of jargon today. Come Aboard, drop anchor, and some other goodies. Give me a few months or so and I'll have it down pat for ya.

Hey, if you get lucky to do your middy tour on a nuke ship volunteer to go back to manuvering and blow the EOOW. Its good training, and being an officer, you'll be doing a lot of it

Oh, and ask about getting suited up to retrieve the mail buoy while out at sea

Don't forget to get your BT Punch from a boiler tech. If you're not on a steam powered ship you can always go to the bosun's locker and get a bosun' punch. They're just as good. While you're there ask for a few links of anchor chain to take home as a souvenir. The links from a carrier are the best. 360 1bs per link

[MKSheppard]

Usually comprised of said miscreant having a heavy rope tied around him and pitched over the bow of the ship, the ship would then run him over and at some point the impacts from bounching down the keel, the rudders, or the screws (depending on era) would kill him.

Actually no. Today Keelhauling is you go left/right across the beam, not towards the screw. We don't like having to clean up various body bits

[Andrew J.]

I heard a lot of jargon today. Come Aboard, drop anchor, and some other goodies. Give me a few months or so and I'll have it down pat for ya.

I'm insulted by the idea that I need you to tell me all about nautical jargon.

But...just remind me, the bow's the pointy bit at the front, right?

[Hyperion]

Just wait till you're asked to get a 25 feet of water line or a can of relative bearing grease.

[Drooling Iguana]

Any gay jokes and I'll keelhaul you.

What's keelhaul?

Keelhaul /Kê(e)l-hol 1: To haul under the keel of a ship as punishment or torture.

Computer games can be very educational.

[otter]

Don't forget to get your BT Punch from a boiler tech. If you're not on a steam powered ship you can always go to the bosun's locker and get a bosun' punch. They're just as good.

Ouch! Reminds me of the hardest most painful punch I took from a TM when he "tacked" my dolphins on. I swear I had bruised ribs afterwards!

[Agent Fisher]

Good Luck Grand Vizer of the Gnomish Hordes!!
We will miss you!!
DINK DINK!

[LadyTevar]

Ok, will your sailing companions be an Indian, a construction worker and a cop?

*Awaits keelhauling*

*somehow makes Gandalf stay still in the water with his legs split open in the direct path of the ship, and watches as the keel splits him in two as the ship moves forward over the water*

That's the general idea behind it (at least as explained to me), but I have no idea how you would actually carry it out.

They have it wrong.
KeelHauling is when you fasten a rope amidships, so that it runs under the keel of the ship. The ends of the rope are tied to the ankles and wrists of the man to be punished, and then the crew hauls on the rope to drag the man over the side, under the ship, and back up the other side. The lucky ones were hauled quickly, before they ran out of air.