When I worked for the Ministry of Defense here in the UK the apprentices
regularly got sent to the supply stores for a ball of whitworth thread and a
long weight.
Worked every time :-)
Eddie
England
1969 SRL311
eddie@ratdat.com
www.ratdat.com
> Returning to Vietnam late 67.(3 rd time) I had a Mailbouy watchbill
going, I
> was called to the bridge over the 1MC , thought I'd had it, but when I
reported
> to the Skipper on the bridge he had the OOD issue me a set of binoculars
so
> thhe mailbouy
> watch could stand a proper watch.
> Roadster content got up above freezing yesterday took Baby out for the
first
> time since Nov. It will still exceed the speed limit considerably.
ZZZesty!!!
> Russ Southwell 70 1600
> ADC(NAC/AW) USN(RET)
>
> Andrew Murphy wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of my time in the Navy when we used to send fresh boots
to
> > look for "Relative Bearing Grease", "Bulkhead removers" and "Buckets of
> > Steam". Then there was the ever popular "Mail buoy watch". Russ
Southwell
> > will know what that means.
> >
> > The funny part was we could always find someone gullible enough to do
it.
> >
> > Andrew Murphy
> > SoCalROC
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