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26. My best friend in the Navy went BT. He got told he'd never get his twenty because the Chiefs and PO1's never ...

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 11:52 AM

Sep 8

... retired. I went off to New London and Sub School Nov 73.

Fannon was one of the coolest dudes I met in boot camp and he also came from Akron. Once we were walking up to school and there was a JG on a bike with a brief case in in left hand. "Watch this." he said. He stepped from the sidewalk onto the curb and snapped of the prettiest salute you ever saw. The JG took his right hand off the handle bars to salute back and crashed in the street. The BT school was next to the MM, Engineman the other side of MM.

What we would do to keep from saluting. Pop covers and brush our hair back, get out of range at the last second, there were times when LG and Lts would walk right at us trying to vector us into salute range and if we had four of us we'd march to their oblique. If not we'd make a more acute angle of course. Or drop and tie our shoes.

Gawd I loved the Zumwalt Navy.

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