That's the Navy I remember, same bunks, several times I hung over the side (in a boatswain chair) and chipped paint, slapped on red lead and painted the ship side. USS Manley DD-940 1964 to 1966. The first ship in 63 no A/C. it was HOT!
On the USS Coontz DLG-9 1966 in Tonkin Gulf. Overall, it was pretty smooth sailing. I took an empty coffee can and filled it with water for GQ. Several days later we went to GQ. I drank the water and got food poisoning like you couldn't believe. Don't put water in a coffee can into 1966 or you will get food poisoning!
Here because my grandfather just passed away. He served in the navy from ‘54 to ‘58. He was a radar operator aboard the USS Salem CA-139. I’ll miss you Nonno.
This is as real as it gets, I didn't get to see my dad when he was young and in this navy on the USS SAINT PAUL CA-73 becoming a chief petty officer 2nd class I see how the discipline he learned and enforced made it possible to get a education in a trade and a job in manufacturing to become a shop foreman and marry my mother and start a large family and use his GI bill to purchase a brand new house for his family in the suburbs away from the city life. Thank you uncle sam 🇺🇸
Underway we always tied the swabs to a heaving line, threw them over the side and drug them for about 5 minutes. Brought them back onboard and rinsed them off in a deep sink. Cleaned them up real good. Did the same thing with the dungarees and chambray shirts. Couldn't trust the ships laundry.
That did clean them up good. That was one of my jobs as a compartment cleaner and I looked forward to it. I got to hang out on the fantail for a while. I always took a long time and if anybody say anything I just say there was a line and sometimes there was because there was only one heaving line on the aircraft carrier.
I was a BM2 and did the Messing and Berthing Inspection with the XO on a DDG every day back in 86-87. I told him that my dad was on a Cruiser and one day at sea a bottle of scotch fell out of the overhead right in front of the ship's office, nearly hitting the skipper. The XO said, "Happened when I was a Mid in 1974, that was a different Navy, you could beat sailors"
With a lot of sailors nowadays you make the mistake of trying to take a guy into a fan room who had been training martial arts for years and would hand your ass to you on a platter.
Hi, my name is Steve and I'm an addict. I can't stop watching old military videos and I'm currently looking into a rehab center that specializes in this area...
Don't laugh. One of my coworkers at Southern Bell in Charlotte did the same thing in the 1980s. He was assigned to NCNB's headquarters downtown. (Now Bank Of America) People were complaining that it was warm at one end of a space and when the A/C mechanics checked they found he'd cut a hole a foot square in a duct to cool off the equipment room. He was one of our general F/Us and had been put there because he wasn't allowed to drive company vehicles anymore. Too many wrecks. He should have been fired but the union kept saving him.
I had one of those “enhanced vent supply” ducts, covered with a strip of duct tape painted to match. Also had a flapper valve in the pipe to shut off the whole stack of racks. Originally it dumped air under the bottom rack, the guy on the deck hated it and kept socks stuffed in it, so those of us in the stack built individual vents and everyone was happy. Of course the threat of sliding a greasey fart down the vent was always real!
We found that the best way to distract the inspector was have a hot cup of coffee waiting a leave a pile of Playboys and Penthouse magazines laying around and he would spend his time drinking coffee and looking at the naked women until he had to go and not even bother to inspect. How I miss the early 1970's.
I never had a locker that big, are a partition between toilets, 3 racks high with 2 foot between was the standard, on a barracks barge the racks were 4 high. good life for a young unattached boy.
I talked to several guys who said the biggest mistakes they ever made were joining the Navy to clean toilets....and an even bigger mistake was reenlisting and getting head duty again.
@@G.Freeman92 As a general rule, Compartment Cleaner duties rotated among the lower-ranking sailors...or the most worthless. If the gentlemen the OP referred to spent their entire enlistment scrubbing toilets, and were then scrubbing toilets on their 2nd enlistment, either that was all that they could be trusted to do, or they couldn't stay out of trouble and were assigned Extra Duty as a punishment.
@@kevincrosby1760Kind of one of those cases of "Someone's gotta do it" but yeah for something like that to be a particular job and not just the general job of everyone who used that one feels like a particular punishment. Given the volunteer nature of the military lately, it sounded like one of those types who thinks getting a badge and telling others what to do is given, not earned.
@@MarioMastar Much can be said for the concept of becoming qualified for as many watches as possible as quickly as possible. Worked for me. The very last time I was detailed for Compartment Cleaner I was an E-2. FWIW, I left the USN as a E-5/PO2.
I was ships company for 4 years and we had ways of dealing with dirt bags. You always have a few in every crowd. When laying in my bunk I could reach out and touch the bunk beside me, below me and above me, that’s how tight the berthing compartment was. You don’t shower every day and you will be immediately harassed. Some guys would wear the the same clothes every day and start stinking up the place right quick. They would be in front of the Chief if they didn’t clean up their act.
These sailors had to endure the farts, smelly feet and bad breath of hundreds of men for months at a time, so I salute them for their service. It kind of reminds me of that movie "Centipede". I know I couldn't take it.
Dress uniform and the Medical Officer going along on an inspection. Maybe, MAYBE, if there was a camera present. Otherwise, this would have to be classed as fiction.
Thomas Dollard My dad was in the Navy from 1956 to 1960. Served on CVA-42 The Roosevelt. He was on board ship in 1958 attached to VA-175 as an Airdale for Spads (AD-6’s) My dad was a Sailor through and through. He died almost 10 years ago now. He would have gotten a kick out of this film. I miss him every day. So that explains what happened to one sailor from that era. I still have his hard bound Blue Jacket Manual.
Everyone who has ever served knows that “bullsh1t”, in my opinion, is second only to drill on the hate list of the junior service personnel, “bull nights” for those in single accommodation were the Bain of social life, Friday afternoon cleaning parties of work areas, painting grass green etc etc etc, but even then we knew that they were necessary, most people could be relied upon to keep standards up, but then they were let down by the few, so cleaning Rotas were needed and inspections, as this film quite rightly points out, cleanliness and sanitation have very high standards for very good reason. But one thing that has always amused me is the armed forces have very high sanitation/cleanliness standards, but if a very unfortunate person dies whilst at sea, then the SOP is to empty a freezer and put the body in, ok, in a body bag, but still!!!, it might not be SOP now, I have been retired some years. Thanks for a glimpse back in time, a time when it all seemed so simple. 👍.
I always resented the living and berthing condition of the enlisted v. Officer and how little concern for the enlisted there was. I was on a reefer 59 -62 sleeping arrangement much too close for todays standards.
@@lookeywho1287 Yeah, but there was an implication that between the second world war and possibly Viet Nam, the US military would do mandatory penis inspections, and any intact man with a hint of dirt on his penis would be forcibly circumcised under threat of court martial.
@@jed.x2907 WHY? A draftee had no more choice to be there than a Federal prisoner. I think they are very equivalent. Some ships routinely stay at sea for over six months at a time.
@@pauleveritt3388 False equivalence is a logical fallacy in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not.
He did VERY casually walk right up to a working lathe and practically touch the machine while it was running.... he was worried about the guy's cufflinks and telling him to brush the lathe while he was using it... I think HE failed the safety inspection.
and casually touch a SPINNING LATHE while a guy is working on it instead of telling him to turn the machine off, waiting for it to come to a stop, THEN walking up to address his unbuttoned cuffs.
Not with the wrong valve, but I did have a JP5 shower when one of the ports locked on the aircraft I was taking fuel samples from. Shit burns and left the side of my body looking like a bad sun burn for weeks lol
@@shrimp_party5705 what's fun is when the airman locks the port for you for the 10th time and still doesn't know how to unlock it, so you have to jump in instead. Too many volunteered jp5 showers on my side
I always wonder what's the point of going to a barber to get cuts like that. Seeing nearly bald guys freaking out about how they need a haircut so bad while carrying enough beard to knit a shirt out of doesn't scream hygene as much as arrogance.
But if the ships takes a hit and sinks y,all will die clean. My mother's uncle served in the army during WW2 IN ITALY. He is still there buried KIA. His last letter home stated: if you have any sons going to war have them join the navy they'll die clean I joined and was a Gunners mate 2nd class. I have alot respect for my Army comrades they had their perks too
@@0159ralph I have no regrets being a “dog face” in the Army - the absolutely HORRIBLE thought of trying to go to sleep on a vibrating, noisy, stinky, metal box - out on the middle of the ocean is what drove me to join the Army! My dad who served on the USS Maryland BB46 said “Oh, You get USED TO IT” - I told him “I’d rather get used to sleeping in mosquito infested rice paddies in Vietnam before I’d join the Navy !!!” (And I DID!!) I went on to be a medic and then an Army Nurse. Good Times…. Good Times !!!
Your are right and not to knock the US Army every banch had its perks. Another family friend was a Navy doc and became a 82nd airborne medic. He retired as a full bird, served in Nam. I was almost recruited Army reserve for the Partriot systems I regret not joining.
That survey would nowadays entail one officer taking pictures with his iPhone and emailing them to someone on shore lol, you wouldn’t even have to come to port.
I gained mad respect for Corpsmen as a boot ass 03 in the Fleet. They took no crap, but honestly had nothing but the best interests of us Marines in mind. Plus it was baller that they could, to an extent, to tell our chain to get bent when needed, because they had an old Chief that would tell your Plt Sgt to get f'ed.
True story. I arrived overseas and the office glass coffee pot was entirely brown like it hadn’t been cleaned in years. Stupid Lt jg told me the coffee is better that way.
Remember the guy that ate a dozen pickled eggs with his beer on liberty. His farts were so bad we all slept on deck...and during a squall The chief went in there and promptly hurled his lunch. That room stunk for weeks
The “health and safety” inspections of our berthing involved tossing sailors’ racks, pulling stuff out of their lockers, etc. in the search for contraband.
Looking at this vid made me think .The last time I ever had a barber shave around my ears and neck was in 1964 on the USS Barney DDG 6 .He only did that on slow days but never had any one else do it even when I got in the SeaBees they never did it : (
1958, my uncle was on the USS Intrepid CV-11 he reminisced about the weevils in the bread. 1973-1975 I was on the USS John F Kennedy CV-67. It got so bad on cruises '73 and '75 in some heads. Some types would like to put graffiti on the partition walls of the stalls with their own feces. Someone came into the shop one morning and said "Happiness is a clean stall!" We all said: "Yeah"!
@@gregorymalchuk272 Back then, the military as a whole was transitioning from the Vietnam War to peacetime. Some fellows joined the Navy when there was still the Army draft to avoid the draft. We got a lot of unsavory types enlist and some of the rules were lax. There were more than the usual drug use as mentioned from the Captain's Mast awards in the ship's paper. The US military gets screwy between wars.
At the :47-:48 mark, that is all the water he gets for the shower. Hilarious videos that I was charged with running in A school in 1968. Never could find the infamous film titled Wave Hygiene but I am sure it is around.
My uncle was in from 1947 through 1969. My other other uncle joined in 1950 and was killed in 1952 when his ship, the USS Hobson, was accidentally hit in a collision with the USS Wasp.
I was in the aircon game for many years... I made a fortune in multiple storey buildings removing makeshift adjustments to the ductwork outlets by women with paper and sticky tape.... Blocking off outlets....
Sweepers sweepers man your brooms, sweep fore and aft all passageway and ladder spaces. That's the navy, I've haven't been in since 92, but I've taken this habit home. If you know anyone who served in the military you'll know what I'm taking about.
A portable, low powered or battery powered (or both) version of the atmosphere scrubbers they used on Apollo 13 could've helped. A resealable food pouch could solve the bowl problem.
Resealable or not, placing a half eaten bowl in the airducts is nasty no matter where you are. The guy with a cake in his locker needed a resealable food pouch. The guy who left his oatmeal in a random hallway on a pipe needs his stripes removed. Take it from me, you only need to forget about a half eaten corn on the cob for 6 months before you're wondering what that gross blue thing is... oh and leave food stains on your dresser for cockroaches to make a meal of, then wipe it off with good bleach to never see another one again. XD
Last locker inspection I had, was in San Diego Boot camp. (Same locker there, and 'A" school. from then on, the bunk locker) The small PERSONAL ITEMS drawer was Off Limits, for inspection even then
@@kevincrosby1760 Ahoy, shipmate! I couldn't remember the whole thing and didn't want to butcher it. 🙂 I recall something about sweeping down all lower decks, ladderwells, and passageways. Ah, good times. In hindsight. "Flight quarters, flight quarters..." might have been the one that I found most annoying. Really, it was the Boatswain's whistle at the beginning, I think.
@@karlhungus5554 Sweepers, Sweepers, Man your brooms. Make a clean sweep down fore and aft. Sweep down all lower decks, ladderwells, and pasageways. Empty all trash clear of the fantail / Empty all trash in the receptacles provided on the pier. I actually looked forward to hearing them call away Flight Quarters. Hazardous Duty pay is a monthly thing, so was something that was only received when I could document time in the control booth during Helo Ops. As far as the Bos'n Pipe goes, I detested it both personally and professionally. Personally, I just found it annoying. Professionally, most guys held the mic too close to the pipe, resulting in warning lights on the 1MC cabinet as they overloaded the input to the Pre-Amp rack. When the pipe sounded choppy, it wasn't the pipe, it was the poor Pre-Amp throttling the signal so it didn't overdrive the Main Rack. With a modern Amp you have circuitry to protect the Amps. With the older stuff, not so much. If something popped, it was a full pull power, tag out, and grab a pair of gloves to pull and replace tubes. The Output Tubes on the Main Rack were a matched set and ran about $900...
@@kevincrosby1760 Haha, nicely done on the 1MC announcement. Likewise, I also detested the Bos'n Pipe. Very annoying, as you noted. You clearly know your stuff about electronics. Were you an ET? You had to have had a technical rating. Unless you knew your stuff before enlisting. I got out in '89 and I've heard the ratings have changed a bit. Some rates were merged, I believe.
@@karlhungus5554 IC2, at your service. They tried to do away with it, but brought it back. ETs are basically electronics, IC has a lot more electrical and electro-mechanical.
I just met the real backbone of the US Military ; ..... some poor old lady who suddenly has a huge tax debt to pay off.................. Get real, Rambo.......
