I was in the Navy fo 20 years and not once did I ever wash my coffee cup.
Larry Miller
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolyn/Rick <walters@mail.softcom.net>
To: <William.Elliott@mail.mei.com>
Cc: Kate & Gary Bales <kgb@clipper.net>; <RBHouston@aol.com>;
<sefisher@cisco.com>; <tob@taltec.net>; <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: speaking of fuel....
> Hi Bill,
>
> I guess we shouldn't have complained, because in the yards they installed
the
> freeze dried machines. Talk about bad, they made the ranch coffee I grew
up on
> look good. Ranch coffee was 3/4 coffee, 3/4 you don't ask i won't tell,
type of
> coffee.
>
> Glad to here from another submariner. What boats were you on? I was on
Billfish,
> and the Memphis out of Groton, Conn.
>
> Rick
>
> William.Elliott@mail.mei.com wrote:
>
> > Oh, come on now! Old submariners take pride in the grunginess of their
> > coffee cups. I saw a young non-qual punished for maliciously washing
his
> > Chief's cup. Anyway, a little "foreign material" won't effect the
quality of
> > the brew!
> >
> > I was a submarine Supply Officer and damn proud of my coffee. (It helped
that
> > I grew up in the NC backwoods brewing "mountain dew". You don't want to
know
> > what's added to that stuff!)
> >
> > After his first cup of my coffee, our new Captain made me the ship's
Hazardous
> > Materials Officer.
> >
> > Bill Elliott
> > Lake Mills, WI
> >
> > <<Speaking of coffee. When I was in the service on Subs, we went into
the
> > yard for overhaul. They drug this old yughie looking rag out of the
> > pot. It had been in there who knows how long as the pot were mounted
and
> > the top was inaccessable(sp?). Talk about gross you out, we just came
> > back from 2 three month runs on that boat.
> >
> > Good ol navy coffee.' I alway wondered why they used plastic spoons for
> > stiring the coffee. Metal disolves in it.
> >
> > Rick>>
> >
> > Kate & Gary Bales wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds more like what the company I work for calls "coffee". I swear
> > > they fill the pot from the diesel
> > > tanks.
> > > Kate
> > >
>
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