Blast from the past: NAVCAD

[Gatordev]

@Gatordev , do you even frigate, bro?

I don't ever recall hearing "Tattoo." I do remember hearing "Turn to, stand by for evening prayer." But maybe now it makes a lot more sense. Although admittedly, it was sometimes hard to understand the ebonics of the BM...that and the 1MC was usually sabotaged in some form.

 

[jmcquate]

So sort of like "Goodnight Chesty.........where ever you are"?

 

[mad dog]

Who wants to be a NAVCAD?

One of my co-workers bought this little gem at a yard sale. Pretty cool booklet.

Ha! Good stuff, sir...thanks for posting the booklet.

There were quite a few NAVCADs in the mix when I went through AOCS in 1986. They were VERY squared away and excelled during primary in the T-34C...and from what I remember, most of them got jets. I always admired NAVCADs.

 

[Sky-Pig]

My dad was a NAVCAD...I always got a kick out of the fact that he didn't finish his degree until he was a LCDR

 

[LFCFan]

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."

At first I heard "Catholic Mass is being held in the ship's chapel..." as "Captain's Mast is being held in the ship's chapel..." and thought "man...no better way to make a sailor feel like they're about to get crucified than to have Jesus himself nailed to the cross right behind the Big Skipper..."

 

[LFDtoUSMC]

Tattoo is also a bugle call that was played (as you guessed by the schedule) prior to TAPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_(bugle_call)
There is a sound clip on the page.

 

[GroundPounder]

My info is 30 years old, but at Ft. Riley ( old Calvary post ) they played bugle calls throughout the day. Reveille and Retreat are ( were ) common on all Army posts, but they pulled out the stops there. Did not know that it was called " Tattoo " but I've heard that one countless times.

 

[707guy]

What is "Tattoo?" I haven't heard of that before. I think Academy types would do their B&G poem, or whatever it was called, but haven't seen "Tattoo" before.