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Posted by NC Wayne on August 01, 2006 at 20:06:04 from (64.12.116.74):
In Reply to: O.T. He made it in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! posted by super99 on August 01, 2006 at 16:22:35:
Spent the summer and winter of '86 and the spring and summer of '87 in Great Lakes going through boot camp and school. Things changed alot just in the time I was in boot camp, they got more PC and not as tough. Basically we had to earn priviledges like wearing our "dixie cups" (white hats)while the guys coming in 5 weeks or so behind us were being given the day they got there. We wore boots and jogged/ran everywhere...they still ran/jogged but they got to wear tennis shoes. There were other things I can't recall at the moment but all in all it left us with the knowledge right from the start that the Navy was teaching us all that we were all the same, we were all one team and were all gonna be treated the same yet they couldn't even follow their own teaching. I spent 6 years total active duty, two+ on a Destroyer, two+ on a Carrier and the rest in school. I wouldn't take anything for the experience but you couldn't pay me enough to do it again. Just in the 6 years from '86 to '92 I saw things degrade from disiplined to dismal. Everything became a "political", s-e-x-u-a-l or racial issue. Rank didn't mean much, it was just something allowed you to give someone an order that they didn't think you should give or had given them just because they were black, hispanic, female, etc etc etc. Like I said I had plenty of good times and plenty of bad and wouldn't take anything for the experience but if things have digressed as much since '92 as they did in the 6 years prior I feel sorry for any teenager putting himself in that position today. That said tell your son GOOD LUCK, BEST WISHES from an ex "hole snipe". If he doesn't know already he'll learn soon enough what a "hole snipe" is...unless it's not a PC enough term for use in the new Navy that is.....
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