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Blast from the past: NAVCAD
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Too bad that Hugh Magee (BZB604) or Ron Marron (RonDebMar) aren't still around, they both went through the program in the early 60's. Hughie retired as a full commander, Ron got out after 10 and flew with the airlines. Both were kickass Sailors.
Two years of college or no college if active duty enlisted. Hugh was a blackshoe bubblehead ET and Ron was a brownshoe AT in a Phantom squadron.
Two years of college or no college if active duty enlisted. Hugh was a blackshoe bubblehead ET and Ron was a brownshoe AT in a Phantom squadron.
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I remembering hearing something like "Tattoo, tattoo, all lights out" back in the mid to late 70's, and I believe it was the Navy way of saying "shut up, turn the lights out, and hit the rack."
Thanks for posting the pamphlet. My late father was a NAVCAD in the closing months of WWII. I recall that he talked about being in the Navy, but then said he became a Marine after he began training in the F4U Corsair. This pamphlet clarifies that bit of family history for me.
My dad never flew again after his Navy/Marine service, but a lot of detailed knowledge stuck with him. I was able to give him a copy of an F4U manual some 50 years after his last flight. He told me how he was reading some minutia about minimizing engine vibrations and recalled the exact RPM range before he turned the page and saw numbers. Naval flight training has always been good.
Now where the hell are my car keys?
Thanks for posting the pamphlet. My late father was a NAVCAD in the closing months of WWII. I recall that he talked about being in the Navy, but then said he became a Marine after he began training in the F4U Corsair. This pamphlet clarifies that bit of family history for me.
My dad never flew again after his Navy/Marine service, but a lot of detailed knowledge stuck with him. I was able to give him a copy of an F4U manual some 50 years after his last flight. He told me how he was reading some minutia about minimizing engine vibrations and recalled the exact RPM range before he turned the page and saw numbers. Naval flight training has always been good.
Now where the hell are my car keys?
http://www.navydads.com/m/group?id=2150375:Group:90739&maxDate=2014-08-16T20:15:53.970Z
In short, it derives from a town announcement to shutoff the beer taps and send the sailors back to their ship.
"Tattoo, Tattoo. Lights out in five minutes. Standby for the ending prayer..."
Was it ending prayer or evening prayer? There's probably more than one answer but only the "Navy answer" matters and it's probably buried in some old regs somewhere. Is it ladders, ladder wells, or ladder backs when you call away Sweepers? Aughh!
@Gatordev , do you even frigate, bro?
Not Catholic myself, so it's not a thing for me . . . but it was still a source of minor amusement to listen to some poor E-3 bumble their way through pronouncing "Eucharistic adoration is now being held in the ship's chapel."
Should read "evening prayer." DYAC.Was it ending prayer or evening prayer? There's probably more than one answer but only the "Navy answer" matters and it's probably buried in some old regs somewhere. Is it ladders, ladder wells, or ladder backs when you call away Sweepers? Aughh!
@Gatordev , do you even frigate, bro?
I seem to remember "ladder backs." And something about "heaving out and trice up."
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Too bad that Hugh Magee (BZB604) or Ron Marron (RonDebMar) aren't still around, they both went through the program in the early 60's. Hughie retired as a full commander, Ron got out after 10 and flew with the airlines. Both were kickass Sailors.
The recent former CO in my reserve unit was among the last of the final iteration of NAVCAD's in the early 90's, he said there are still a small handful left both active and reserve.
That's pilot code for "go back to sleep." If it seems like a distant dream then you were doing it right.
(Trice up means fold your rack up into the bulkhead where it'll be out of the way.)
I've PM'd you with my private email 'cause I'd like to talk with him.
