MasterBates
Well-Known Member
One last bit of comic gold..
If you can somehow show up in a fleet squadron as an ENS.. DO IT.
I was the first Bull Ensign they had since one of the LCDRs was a newly winged NAVCAD (as strange as it may seem to people, I actually went from first flight to wings in 10 months the first time.. Seen both extremes of the spectrum now).
COs, Commodore, none were safe. The XO sent me on a reign of pranks that were always explained away with "Fucking Ensign... I'll have to talk to him" by the CO or XO.
Being the Bull Ensign is a GOOD THING if you can swing it. I even got my own parking spot. (COs painted over to read BULL ENSIGN).
For a while, the CO thought I was just getting to work early and staying late. What had really happened is me and some JOs painted the spot, then put my 68 Mustang in the spot, left it there for 2 weeks, and when he was flying I'd go turn it around or move it slightly, and I rode my bike to work and parked around the side where the CO did not see my bike.
If you can somehow show up in a fleet squadron as an ENS.. DO IT.
I was the first Bull Ensign they had since one of the LCDRs was a newly winged NAVCAD (as strange as it may seem to people, I actually went from first flight to wings in 10 months the first time.. Seen both extremes of the spectrum now).
COs, Commodore, none were safe. The XO sent me on a reign of pranks that were always explained away with "Fucking Ensign... I'll have to talk to him" by the CO or XO.
Being the Bull Ensign is a GOOD THING if you can swing it. I even got my own parking spot. (COs painted over to read BULL ENSIGN).
For a while, the CO thought I was just getting to work early and staying late. What had really happened is me and some JOs painted the spot, then put my 68 Mustang in the spot, left it there for 2 weeks, and when he was flying I'd go turn it around or move it slightly, and I rode my bike to work and parked around the side where the CO did not see my bike.