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October 12th, 2008
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I was in the merchant marines prior to the navy and it's always fun to harass new people. Some of my favorite memories I have of my time at sea were hazing. I was watching a movie one day trying to relax we had been underway a couple of days and a new deck hand kept coming to me asking for another job. ''I finished whatever, what else can I do.'' Well after about the 5th time my movie gets interrupted I am tired of it. So I take him to the stern of the boat and tell him we need to fill the potable (drinking) water tanks. I show him where to find the water hose and tell him to fill the tank to 2inches from the top. Well I go back inside and 6hours later I've completely forgotten about him and I'm on my 4th movie and the captain comes down from the wheel house asking me where the new deckhand is. I start laughing and tell him he's filling up the potable water tanks. Capt. looks at me stupid and says he's really doing it? lol so we head out back and here this guy is still sitting hunched over the tank. He tells us that these tanks must be huge he has been filling it for hours and it hasn't gotten any fuller lol. If you don't get that, we're at sea the only potable water that your going to get comes from those tanks he was filling. he was just recirculating the water.... Same deckhand a few days later I sent him to get a bucket of wheel wash. He comes back after an hour telling me he couldn't find any wheel wash... Wheels at sea are the propellers btw.
One night it's foggy as hell and we have a new deckhand so we tell him it's time to adjust the radar. This is a joke we have used many time so we get out the foil covered helmet and the antennae and tell him to go to the bow and we will tune the radar in. Nothings funnier then watching a guy with his arms raised in a tin foil covered football helmet do airplanes as we tell him now move to port or go starboard! Every week we washed the boats down to get the salt off them. Well on top of the wheelhouse is about 90 feet from the water line and a lot of people have problems with the height. Anyway I'm on a new boat and the captain plays this joke every wash day. He blows the horn once you get on the wheelhouse and scares the shit out of you. I'm talking a fog horn from 3feet away is ridiculous loud and even if your expecting it to happen it still scares the shit out of you. Anyway after the third time he does it to me I vow revenge. Well the night before I take a rain slicker and tie the chest to the legs and then fill it with rags so it looks like a body. Next morning I ask the capt to turn the radar off cause I'm gunna start washing the boat down. I'm up on the wheelhouse maybe 15minutes and sure enough he blows the fog horn. Well I toss the dummy overboard and about a second later I almost follow cause the capt. backs down on the engines as hard as he can. He comes running out of the wheelhouse and is greeted by me laughing so hard it hurt. Paybacks a bitch. I enjoyed my time in the merchant marines it was definitely a lot more organized and more physically demanding then the navy has been. Hazing in the navy si pretty much banned completely. Kindler gentler armed forces is pretty ridiculous in my book but whatever. Anyway this topic made me laugh I have met some seriously dumb people in my time serving. Boot camp is a joke and really doesn't prepare anybody for what the real deal is like. Trip 
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Onboard you have many diffrent tanks for many diffrent things, and all need 'dipping' regularly. Well we have a new guy join the ship, fresh out of basic training, on his first Watchkeeping, he goes out for his first hour of rounds, comes back and hands in his reading, and the Engineer of the watch reads it, and then says ' Wheres the 0G 1N tank dip?'
Now, Locations on a ship are given a certain way, (Deck)(Section) and if its at an intersection (deck)(section)(deck)(section).... Anyways, he goes running off thinking he is in trouble, and comes back 2 hours later saying he couldnt find it. 0G1N = Ogin = Navy speak for the Sea  LOL, we were in fits of laughter for days (Dipping is a form of measurment, a long 'dip-tape' with a weight on the end is lowered into the tanks, and a depth taken, and then converted into Litre / Tons )
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We always send our new guys up to the Security Forces squadron to get us a fresh batch of K9-P. We also have them take exhause samples..... we have a couple of 85 model Fords (refueling trucks) and they smoke at idle. It's amazing to see someone trying to trap a buncha smoke in a qt. jar with someone else romping the gas lol.
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