Hurry Up And Wait!

[RandynFla]

or for the other arty types we would send the newbies to supply for:
Battery adjustment wrenches and buckets of grid squares.

 

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[Monty]

Never underestimate your Training Instructor's (TI) sense of hkuor. One day he told me to go to the orderly room and pickup some paperwork he needed. I had no idea where the orderly room was. So I took off runiing in the right direction I hoped and got stoped by ranking individuals and got my arse grilled a couple dozen times going and coming. A loose basic was fair game to anyone it seems. After I found the orderly room and got chewed out again, I had to hunt my flight and after a couple of hours I found them across base. The TI asked me where the hell I had been all this time. I replied, "Running my a$$ off Sir"! He broke out laughing and told me to get back into formation. Monty

 

[treasurefiend]

or for the other arty types we would send the newbies to supply for:
Battery adjustment wrenches and buckets of grid squares.

LOL, we would also send the nob's to supply and ask for lightbulb repair kits.

 

[treasurefiend]

nah, you got me on the ID 10 T.

We used to also get the new guys when they were on radio watch to to tell us what was being said, but then we would tell them to say "repeat their last"... LOL If you don't know, you never say "repeat" over the radio. That is for artty to keep firing on their last target. LOL We would get our A$$es chewed but it was fun...

LOL

 

[ohioaxeman]

used to tell the nonrate it was his turn to lockup the basement, get the keys from gunny! boy did gunny get pissed! or send him off to get bulkhead remover. pvt. go get me a set of sqeegee sharpeners from supply! the one we hated the most, "you wasn't here, so we volunteered you" usmc

 

[allen_idaho]

NAVY - Never Again Volunteer Yourself

It's also great to see a new butterbar (Ensign) on the bridge start to panic when they tell him it's his turn to drive the boat and he needs the keys to the ship before we can start the engines and get underway.

 

[sniffer]

if you can get it in, in 5 minutes, you can get it out, in 5 minutes, and if you can't we'll send you to the MC to get it fixed
why don't you get down and beat your face, till I'm tired, I think I'm going to get a chair.
what are you? one of jerry's kids
if it's manmade pick it up, if not, pick it up
ROTC, that just a series of letters, that means to lazy to work

 

[NavMode]

OK you Swab's remember these;

Techies were "Twidgets"
Hole Engineering were "Snipes"
Rest of Engineering were "Fresh Air Snipes"
Boatswain's were "Deck Apes"

Send your Ricky R Recruit to get;
Relative Bearing Grease for the Gyro-compass
Batteries for the Sound Powered Phones
A Bucket of Steam
A BT Punch

Yoke is no Joke
Eight O'clock Reports
Doggin Wrench
Three Section Duty, if you were lucky
Your Short Timer's Calendar
Your Short Timer's Chain
"The following is a Test of the 1MC" "1,2,3 3,2,1 Test Complete"
"The Weather Deck is secured due to High Winds and Heavy Seas"
"Sweepers Sweepers man your brooms, give the ship a clean sweep down fore and aft...."
2130 Sweepers with no lights on the fantail on a moonless night
"Tattoo"
"Lights out maintain quiet about the decks."
"Underway, shift colors"
"Muster on Station"

And the two best for last.
"Knock off Ships work"
"Liberty call, Liberty Call"


It's been 30+ years since I first heard those, seems like yesterday.

 

[day_sleeper_99]

Get down and support the Earth! ie. front lean and rest.

Was told to get the Muzzle Report for the .50 Cal once. I took a long nap and showed up for last formation. SGT asked where I had been all day. I said geting the Muzzle Report for him and shouted a very loud BOOM! He actually laughed and stopped trying to punk out the Private after that.

 

[Montana Jim]

Get down and support the Earth! ie. front lean and rest.

Was told to get the Muzzle Report for the .50 Cal once. I took a long nap and showed up for last formation. SGT asked where I had been all day. I said geting the Muzzle Report for him and shouted a very loud BOOM! He actually laughed and stopped trying to punk out the Private after that.

LOL...