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No, You Divert Your Course
By John
It's an old Navy myth that the Navy insists never happened. But that doesn't make this commercial for Silva navigation any less funny.
No doubt that at some point in history, another milblogger has posted this. It ain't exactly fresh material. What can I say? There's no news coming out of Iraq, I need filler.
Dated or not, it still makes me laugh.
As for real Navy humor? You can't beat the Brits:
The former Soviet navy regarded the Black Sea as a private lake and disliked naval intrusions. In the early 1960s a British destroyer flotilla entered the Black Sea and the Russians rushed some cruisers out at high speed and closed in...
Russian cruisers signalled urgently: "What are you doing in the Black Sea?"
Reply: "Twenty-one knots".
Course the Ruskies got their own jabs in:
A Soviet 'trawler' had been shadowing a NATO exercise for several days taking notes and gathering SIGINT.As the ships queued up to refuel a British frigate signalled her: "Do you require refuelling?"
Reply: "Not if your exercise finishes on time".
Baaaaaaaaah!
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at one time in the seventies there was about a five section string of message traffic about the height of urinals above the deck on a cruiser in overhaul. (they were doing a total rebuild of the after crews head).
it got so far as the type commander speculating on lining up the crew on the pier and measuring the distance of the individuals "equipment" and how to calculate the mean distance above ground. a couple of the addressees had speculated that the current crews were taller than when the ship was built and so needed higher urinals.
it finally died when someone quoted a specification that decreed the distance.
C
I needed a laugh today.
Thanks.
AFAIK, that one goes at least as far back as the Royal Navy in pre-Dreadnought days. I wonder if the makers of that ad were worried about the USN's sense of humour, because that's a British ship in the video ... :-)
HAHA That is so funny. I can picture it happening.
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I first heard that joke almost 20 years ago. At that time the setting was in the '60s...