Captain Kirk To Command New Navy Destroyer

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Originally Posted by HemiEd

You "Sea Sailors" had it bad and I don't blame you.

I had already made AE-6, and just had to extend a year to sew it on. I was guaranteed 6 more years of teaching Search and Rescue (SAR) school down in Pensacola as they had moved the school down there from Quonset Pt.

It was some great duty, usually played tennis for a couple hours during the day, the rest of the time at the pool or teaching classroom.

I was on a supply ship my first time around. Not bad duty, unless you're in the supply department. Then it's hell on earth. But the good thing about being on a supply ship is when you run out of shit to give everybody else, you have to go back to port to pick up more shit, so half the time were were deployed we were in port somewhere.

And after getting used to that, I had no desire to be assigned to a ship that might deploy for 10 months or longer, could only dock in two or three ports in the med anyway due to its size, and otherwise stand in line with several thousand guys waiting to take liberty boats ashore. **** that. I guess I could have just gotten myself stationed at a base overseas, but I didn't want to live out of the country for that long, either. And I had just had enough, too.

But that pension and free health care forever would be sweet.