Navy Pride
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- Jul 11, 2005
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- Very Conservative
You have to be Navy or Ex Navy to understand this:
>>> REAL CHIEFS
>>>
>>> Real Chiefs---think Ensigns should be seen and not heard and never
>>> ever
>> be allowed to read books on leadership.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't own civilian clothes.
>>> Real Chiefs---have CPO Association Cards from their last five
>>> commands.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't remember life before they were a Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---Wedding Proposal: "There will be a wedding at 1000 hours
>> on 29 October, be there in whites with your gear packed because you will
>> be
>> a prime participant."
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite national holiday is CPO Initiation.
>>> Real Chiefs---believe that in the Navy every day is a holiday, every
>> meal is a feast, every payday is a lottery and every muster is a family
>> reunion.
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite breakfast is shipboard SOS.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't know how to tell civilian time.
>>> Real Chiefs---call each other "Chief."
>>> Real Chiefs---greatest fear is signing for property book items.
>>> Real Chiefs---dream in Navy Blue, White, Haze Gray and occasionally
>> khaki.
>>> Real Chiefs---have served on ships that are now war memorials or
>> tourist attractions.
>> Real Chiefs---get tears in their eyes when the "Chief" dies in the
>> movie "Operation Pacific."
>>> Real Chiefs---don't like "Certified Navy Twill" (CNT's). "Wash
>>> khaki"
>> is the ONLY thing out of which to make a uniform.
>>> Real Chiefs---can find their way to the CPO Club while blindfolded on
>> fifteen different Navy bases.
>>> Real Chiefs---have pictures of past ships in their wallets.
>>> Real Chiefs---only own ink pens that have "Property U.S. Government"
>> printed on them.
>> Real Chiefs---never volunteer to get mandatory flu shots.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a permanent curl in their forefinger.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't order supplies, they swap for them.
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite quote is from the movie Ben Hur, "We keep you
>> alive to serve this ship."
>>> Real Chiefs---think excessive modesty is their only fault.
>>> Real Chiefs---hate to write evaluations, except for their own.
>>> Real Chiefs---turn in a four page brag sheet for their evaluation.
>>> Real Chiefs---always say their last ship was their best ship.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that the black tar in their coffee cup makes the
>> coffee taste better.
>> Real Chiefs---are proudest when one of their former strikers makes
>> Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---idea of heaven: Three good PO1's and a Division Officer
>> who does what he is told.
>>> Real Chiefs---think John Wayne would have made a good Chief if he had
>> not gone soft and made Marine movies.
>>> Real Chiefs---use the term "Good Training" to describe any unpleasant
>> task. Scraping the sides of the ship is "Good Training." Having to sleep
>> on
>> your sea bag in the parking lot because there was no room in the barracks
>> is "Good Training."
>>> Real Chiefs---teach their children that the highest attainment in life
>> should be in becoming a Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---can never fathom why a Chief would even consider
>> accepting a commission.
>>> Real Chiefs---think "Crepes and Quiche" are a gay Hollywood couple.
>>> Real Chiefs---rather hitchhike than own an imported automobile, truck
>> or motorcycle.
>> Real Chiefs---keep four sets of dress khaki uniforms in the closet in
>> hopes they will come back.
>>> Real Chiefs---love their mothers mainly because she has a son or
>> daughter in the Navy.
>> Real Chiefs---believe that the only thing to make life more complete
>> is if he/she had been born in a naval hospital.
>>> Real Chiefs---are always right and they know it. In the impossible
>> hypothesis that a subordinate may be right, the former still applies.
>>> Real Chiefs---do not regard an officer's rank and title as the measure
>> of his or her competence.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the only people who can make the salutation "Ensign"
>> sound like a four letter word.
>>> Real Chiefs---are always "The Chief" - even in shower shoes and a
>> towel.
>>> Real Chiefs---will tell you that they are always a part of the answer,
>> never the problem.
>> Real Chiefs---will always say, "Let me do it for you, Sir," and then
>> promptly assign someone to do it.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't sleep; they rest.
>>> Real Chiefs---are never late; they are detained elsewhere.
>>> Real Chiefs---never leave work; their presence is required elsewhere.
>>> Real Chiefs---never eat sliders at mid rats.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't eat quiche, and they can't pronounce it or spell
>> it.
>>> Real Chiefs---never read the newspaper in the mess; they study current
>> events.
>>> Real Chiefs---play cut-throat Hearts, not Poker; and never, ever
>> Bridge.
>>> Real Chiefs---never play a sport where the ball doesn't come back by
>> itself (bowling - yes, golf - no, tennis - never).
>>> Real Chiefs---call their spouses WIFELANT or WIFEPAC, or CINCHOUSE or
>> CINCFAM.
>> Real Chiefs---are at sea when their kids are born. ["You have to be
>> there to lay the keel but not to launch them."]
>>> Real Chiefs---always say, "Morning," never "Good morning," except when
>> they are getting ready to get underway.
>>> Real Chiefs---never eat off of the ship. They know the best food is in
>> the Chiefs' Mess.
>> Real Chiefs---are hated by Supply Officers who have to take inventory
>> after the Real Chief pays a social call.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't write in cursive, except for their paycheck
>> signatures.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that the easiest day at sea is tougher than the
>> worst day on shore duty.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't make coffee.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you can never, ever, at any time, at any
>> location, sea or shore, or under any circumstances, be allowed to run out
>> of coffee.
>>> Real Chiefs---never wash out their coffee cups, rinse maybe, but never
>> wash it.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a coffee pot next to their desks with an
>>> intravenous
>> tube running into their arms.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a Goat Locker.
>>> Real Chiefs---never vacation; every day on the ship is a vacation.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that "sensitivity" is a control knob on a radar or
>> sonar console and that's all it is.
>>> Real Chiefs---have the heart of a little boy .. kept in a jar on the
>> desk.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that remote control is a PO1 on the other end of a
>> walkie-talkie.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you don't need a computer to sail a ship,
>> especially when the power is out.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that a seven-course meal on liberty is a baked
>> potato and a six-pack of beer.
>>> Real Chiefs---never go on liberty with their juniors; they conduct
>> training sessions.
>>> Real Chiefs---never have wine on liberty; it better be brewed and it
>> better be cold.
>>> Real Chiefs---can name at least fifteen bars in Hong Kong, but know
>> that the best bars are across the bay in Kowloon.
>>> Real Chiefs---have tattoos; otherwise, how would they remember what a
>> great time they had on liberty?
>>> Real Chiefs---can communicate with each other using farts.
>>> Real Chiefs---have mastered the use of the silent, but deadly, fart
>>> and
>> they are not afraid to use it, especially around watch stations.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a "Zippo" that has been everywhere and still works.
>>> Real Chiefs---have tattoos on their forearms that would force them to
>> keep their cuffs buttoned at a church picnic.
>>> Real Chiefs---take eighteen year-old idiots and hammer them into
>> Sailors.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that the term "All hands" means "All hands."
>>> Real Chiefs---don't have to command respect; they get it because there
>> is nothing else that you can give them.
>>> Real Chiefs---are expert at choosing descriptive adjectives and nouns,
>> none of which their mothers would endorse.
>>> Real Chiefs---have rows of hard-earned, worn, and faded ribbons, but
>> know that ribbons don't make you a Sailor.
>>> Real Chiefs---are matured like good whisky in steel hulls over many
>> years.
>>> Real Chiefs---aren't the kind of guys you thank; monkeys in zoos don't
>> spend a lot of time thanking the guy who makes them do tricks for
>> peanuts.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the standard by which you measure all others.
>>> Real Chiefs---were educated at the other end of an anchor chain from
>> Copenhagen to Singapore.
>>> Real Chiefs---never excuse being late, not helping a shipmate, or
>> running out of coffee.
>> Real Chiefs---never spill a drink.
>>> Real Chiefs---never drink and drive because you might hit a bump and
>> spill a drink.
>>> Real Chiefs---never go to sick call.
>>> Real Chiefs---have to go out and bring everyone back.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you never wrestle with a pig because you both
>> get dirty, and the pig likes it.
>>> Real Chiefs---never argue with an idiot because people watching may
>>> not
>> be able to tell the difference.
>>> Real Chiefs---observe everything, but admire nothing.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that they will always get what they in-spect, not
>> what they ex-pect.
>>> Real Chiefs---agreed with John Wayne when he said, "Life is tough! But
>> it's tougher when you're stupid!"
>>> Real Chiefs---know that no sailor is completely worthless, because
>> worst case, they serve as a good bad example.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that there's no help program like a self-help
>> program.
>>> Real Chiefs---will tell you that, "If you are going to do something
>> stupid, at least be smart about it."
>>> Real Chiefs---can write up anyone they want.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't
>>> give
>> a crap, but on the other hand, Real Chiefs are very careful and precise.
>>> Real Chiefs---can find the best bar in any port by dead reckoning.
>>> Real Chiefs---paint their houses Navy Grey with their addresses taken
>> from their favorite hull number.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a red and green buoy at the end of their driveways.
>>> Real Chiefs---eat lightning and crap thunder.
>>> Real Chiefs---consider a hurricane to be good sea trials.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the Navy.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that Ensigns, like diapers, should be changed
>>> often
>> and for the same reason.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that once a job is fouled up, anything done to
>> improve it only makes it worse.
>>> Real Chiefs---assume nothing is so simple that it cannot be
>> misunderstood and they act accordingly.
>>> Real Chiefs---have only one rule on liberty: Yield to temptation; it
>> may never pass your way again.
>>> Real Chiefs---never attribute to malice that which is adequately
>> explained by stupidity.
>> Real Chiefs---never take the advice of someone who has not had their
>> kind of trouble.
>> Real Chiefs---know that if it is stupid but works, it is not stupid.
>>> Real chiefs---will tell you that you can survive on charm for about 5
>> minutes, after that, you'd better know something.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
>>> Real Chiefs---never assume, they get the facts.
>>> Real Chiefs---do not confuse efforts with results.
>>> Real Chiefs---will give you three choices in any situation; change,
>> accept, or leave the Navy.
>>> Real Chiefs---think "Hail to the Chief" was originally intended for
>> CPOs.
>>>
>>> REAL CHIEFS
>>>
>>> Real Chiefs---think Ensigns should be seen and not heard and never
>>> ever
>> be allowed to read books on leadership.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't own civilian clothes.
>>> Real Chiefs---have CPO Association Cards from their last five
>>> commands.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't remember life before they were a Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---Wedding Proposal: "There will be a wedding at 1000 hours
>> on 29 October, be there in whites with your gear packed because you will
>> be
>> a prime participant."
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite national holiday is CPO Initiation.
>>> Real Chiefs---believe that in the Navy every day is a holiday, every
>> meal is a feast, every payday is a lottery and every muster is a family
>> reunion.
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite breakfast is shipboard SOS.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't know how to tell civilian time.
>>> Real Chiefs---call each other "Chief."
>>> Real Chiefs---greatest fear is signing for property book items.
>>> Real Chiefs---dream in Navy Blue, White, Haze Gray and occasionally
>> khaki.
>>> Real Chiefs---have served on ships that are now war memorials or
>> tourist attractions.
>> Real Chiefs---get tears in their eyes when the "Chief" dies in the
>> movie "Operation Pacific."
>>> Real Chiefs---don't like "Certified Navy Twill" (CNT's). "Wash
>>> khaki"
>> is the ONLY thing out of which to make a uniform.
>>> Real Chiefs---can find their way to the CPO Club while blindfolded on
>> fifteen different Navy bases.
>>> Real Chiefs---have pictures of past ships in their wallets.
>>> Real Chiefs---only own ink pens that have "Property U.S. Government"
>> printed on them.
>> Real Chiefs---never volunteer to get mandatory flu shots.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a permanent curl in their forefinger.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't order supplies, they swap for them.
>>> Real Chiefs---favorite quote is from the movie Ben Hur, "We keep you
>> alive to serve this ship."
>>> Real Chiefs---think excessive modesty is their only fault.
>>> Real Chiefs---hate to write evaluations, except for their own.
>>> Real Chiefs---turn in a four page brag sheet for their evaluation.
>>> Real Chiefs---always say their last ship was their best ship.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that the black tar in their coffee cup makes the
>> coffee taste better.
>> Real Chiefs---are proudest when one of their former strikers makes
>> Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---idea of heaven: Three good PO1's and a Division Officer
>> who does what he is told.
>>> Real Chiefs---think John Wayne would have made a good Chief if he had
>> not gone soft and made Marine movies.
>>> Real Chiefs---use the term "Good Training" to describe any unpleasant
>> task. Scraping the sides of the ship is "Good Training." Having to sleep
>> on
>> your sea bag in the parking lot because there was no room in the barracks
>> is "Good Training."
>>> Real Chiefs---teach their children that the highest attainment in life
>> should be in becoming a Chief.
>>> Real Chiefs---can never fathom why a Chief would even consider
>> accepting a commission.
>>> Real Chiefs---think "Crepes and Quiche" are a gay Hollywood couple.
>>> Real Chiefs---rather hitchhike than own an imported automobile, truck
>> or motorcycle.
>> Real Chiefs---keep four sets of dress khaki uniforms in the closet in
>> hopes they will come back.
>>> Real Chiefs---love their mothers mainly because she has a son or
>> daughter in the Navy.
>> Real Chiefs---believe that the only thing to make life more complete
>> is if he/she had been born in a naval hospital.
>>> Real Chiefs---are always right and they know it. In the impossible
>> hypothesis that a subordinate may be right, the former still applies.
>>> Real Chiefs---do not regard an officer's rank and title as the measure
>> of his or her competence.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the only people who can make the salutation "Ensign"
>> sound like a four letter word.
>>> Real Chiefs---are always "The Chief" - even in shower shoes and a
>> towel.
>>> Real Chiefs---will tell you that they are always a part of the answer,
>> never the problem.
>> Real Chiefs---will always say, "Let me do it for you, Sir," and then
>> promptly assign someone to do it.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't sleep; they rest.
>>> Real Chiefs---are never late; they are detained elsewhere.
>>> Real Chiefs---never leave work; their presence is required elsewhere.
>>> Real Chiefs---never eat sliders at mid rats.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't eat quiche, and they can't pronounce it or spell
>> it.
>>> Real Chiefs---never read the newspaper in the mess; they study current
>> events.
>>> Real Chiefs---play cut-throat Hearts, not Poker; and never, ever
>> Bridge.
>>> Real Chiefs---never play a sport where the ball doesn't come back by
>> itself (bowling - yes, golf - no, tennis - never).
>>> Real Chiefs---call their spouses WIFELANT or WIFEPAC, or CINCHOUSE or
>> CINCFAM.
>> Real Chiefs---are at sea when their kids are born. ["You have to be
>> there to lay the keel but not to launch them."]
>>> Real Chiefs---always say, "Morning," never "Good morning," except when
>> they are getting ready to get underway.
>>> Real Chiefs---never eat off of the ship. They know the best food is in
>> the Chiefs' Mess.
>> Real Chiefs---are hated by Supply Officers who have to take inventory
>> after the Real Chief pays a social call.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't write in cursive, except for their paycheck
>> signatures.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that the easiest day at sea is tougher than the
>> worst day on shore duty.
>>> Real Chiefs---don't make coffee.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you can never, ever, at any time, at any
>> location, sea or shore, or under any circumstances, be allowed to run out
>> of coffee.
>>> Real Chiefs---never wash out their coffee cups, rinse maybe, but never
>> wash it.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a coffee pot next to their desks with an
>>> intravenous
>> tube running into their arms.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a Goat Locker.
>>> Real Chiefs---never vacation; every day on the ship is a vacation.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that "sensitivity" is a control knob on a radar or
>> sonar console and that's all it is.
>>> Real Chiefs---have the heart of a little boy .. kept in a jar on the
>> desk.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that remote control is a PO1 on the other end of a
>> walkie-talkie.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you don't need a computer to sail a ship,
>> especially when the power is out.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that a seven-course meal on liberty is a baked
>> potato and a six-pack of beer.
>>> Real Chiefs---never go on liberty with their juniors; they conduct
>> training sessions.
>>> Real Chiefs---never have wine on liberty; it better be brewed and it
>> better be cold.
>>> Real Chiefs---can name at least fifteen bars in Hong Kong, but know
>> that the best bars are across the bay in Kowloon.
>>> Real Chiefs---have tattoos; otherwise, how would they remember what a
>> great time they had on liberty?
>>> Real Chiefs---can communicate with each other using farts.
>>> Real Chiefs---have mastered the use of the silent, but deadly, fart
>>> and
>> they are not afraid to use it, especially around watch stations.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a "Zippo" that has been everywhere and still works.
>>> Real Chiefs---have tattoos on their forearms that would force them to
>> keep their cuffs buttoned at a church picnic.
>>> Real Chiefs---take eighteen year-old idiots and hammer them into
>> Sailors.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that the term "All hands" means "All hands."
>>> Real Chiefs---don't have to command respect; they get it because there
>> is nothing else that you can give them.
>>> Real Chiefs---are expert at choosing descriptive adjectives and nouns,
>> none of which their mothers would endorse.
>>> Real Chiefs---have rows of hard-earned, worn, and faded ribbons, but
>> know that ribbons don't make you a Sailor.
>>> Real Chiefs---are matured like good whisky in steel hulls over many
>> years.
>>> Real Chiefs---aren't the kind of guys you thank; monkeys in zoos don't
>> spend a lot of time thanking the guy who makes them do tricks for
>> peanuts.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the standard by which you measure all others.
>>> Real Chiefs---were educated at the other end of an anchor chain from
>> Copenhagen to Singapore.
>>> Real Chiefs---never excuse being late, not helping a shipmate, or
>> running out of coffee.
>> Real Chiefs---never spill a drink.
>>> Real Chiefs---never drink and drive because you might hit a bump and
>> spill a drink.
>>> Real Chiefs---never go to sick call.
>>> Real Chiefs---have to go out and bring everyone back.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that you never wrestle with a pig because you both
>> get dirty, and the pig likes it.
>>> Real Chiefs---never argue with an idiot because people watching may
>>> not
>> be able to tell the difference.
>>> Real Chiefs---observe everything, but admire nothing.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that they will always get what they in-spect, not
>> what they ex-pect.
>>> Real Chiefs---agreed with John Wayne when he said, "Life is tough! But
>> it's tougher when you're stupid!"
>>> Real Chiefs---know that no sailor is completely worthless, because
>> worst case, they serve as a good bad example.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that there's no help program like a self-help
>> program.
>>> Real Chiefs---will tell you that, "If you are going to do something
>> stupid, at least be smart about it."
>>> Real Chiefs---can write up anyone they want.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the ultimate paradox. On the one hand they don't
>>> give
>> a crap, but on the other hand, Real Chiefs are very careful and precise.
>>> Real Chiefs---can find the best bar in any port by dead reckoning.
>>> Real Chiefs---paint their houses Navy Grey with their addresses taken
>> from their favorite hull number.
>>> Real Chiefs---have a red and green buoy at the end of their driveways.
>>> Real Chiefs---eat lightning and crap thunder.
>>> Real Chiefs---consider a hurricane to be good sea trials.
>>> Real Chiefs---are the Navy.
>>> Real Chiefs---think that Ensigns, like diapers, should be changed
>>> often
>> and for the same reason.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that once a job is fouled up, anything done to
>> improve it only makes it worse.
>>> Real Chiefs---assume nothing is so simple that it cannot be
>> misunderstood and they act accordingly.
>>> Real Chiefs---have only one rule on liberty: Yield to temptation; it
>> may never pass your way again.
>>> Real Chiefs---never attribute to malice that which is adequately
>> explained by stupidity.
>> Real Chiefs---never take the advice of someone who has not had their
>> kind of trouble.
>> Real Chiefs---know that if it is stupid but works, it is not stupid.
>>> Real chiefs---will tell you that you can survive on charm for about 5
>> minutes, after that, you'd better know something.
>>> Real Chiefs---know that assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
>>> Real Chiefs---never assume, they get the facts.
>>> Real Chiefs---do not confuse efforts with results.
>>> Real Chiefs---will give you three choices in any situation; change,
>> accept, or leave the Navy.
>>> Real Chiefs---think "Hail to the Chief" was originally intended for
>> CPOs.
>>>
