It's worth noting that, killing people aside, a life in the navy is an adventurous thing. Sure, it doesn't feel that way when you're wiping down bulkheads or the like, but it takes balls to go out on a ship for half a year and sail the ocean blue.
I've already made my stance clear as far as my own liking for being a sailor goes (see my LJ, if you want to know more), but chief among my statements therein is that the Navy is shot through with stupid, foolish, useless individuals whose only ability is to breathe my (and your) air. It's revolting to me that that sort of person is the fountainhead of Will's misery; however, the only thing I can really say in regard to them is this.
They are not Sailors, nor will ever be. Their sort of scum is not welcome in the real Navy, the one peopled by those who actually love their ships and their jobs, and if they'd tried to make it so recently as fifteen years ago, they wouldn't have lasted the month out.
Ah... but that's just me, mind you. I'm Old School(tm).
-dr00 "So what do you do for an encore, toss grenades into the crowd?"
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I've already made my stance clear as far as my own liking for being a sailor goes (see my LJ, if you want to know more), but chief among my statements therein is that the Navy is shot through with stupid, foolish, useless individuals whose only ability is to breathe my (and your) air. It's revolting to me that that sort of person is the fountainhead of Will's misery; however, the only thing I can really say in regard to them is this.
They are not Sailors, nor will ever be.
Their sort of scum is not welcome in the real Navy, the one peopled by those who actually love their ships and their jobs, and if they'd tried to make it so recently as fifteen years ago, they wouldn't have lasted the month out.
Ah... but that's just me, mind you. I'm Old School(tm).
-dr00
"So what do you do for an encore, toss grenades into the crowd?"