U.S. Navy Ditches ALL CAPS messages

[ea6bflyr]

Having proofread a lot of official documents, I'm not sure military personnel can handle the responsibility.

For fuck's sake, not everything is a proper noun! Most people just sprinkle capital letters around like there's a quota or something.

I've met the random capital fairy...

 

[Jim123]

Most people just sprinkle capital letters around like there's a quota or something.

Apostrophe's [sic] too.

 

[ea6bflyr]

Apostrophe's [sic] too.

And sometimes "quotes"

 

[Malo83]

NAVGRAM... somehow reminded me of the dreaded.. aaarrgh Z-GRAM! I remember one that stated you had to be O-4 or above to order a shaggy Sailor to get a haircut; orrr one that authorized Sailors to call the Captain's phone# at any time 24/7 (even underway), to register a complaint!!! Yes, the troops LOVED CNO "Z". Those were the dayz!
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BzB

He was THE MAN!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmo_Zumwalt

 

[Renegade One]

He was THE MAN!

Until he wasn't. And then came his successor (ADM James L. Holloway, III), and then...in fairly rapid order ...ended:
Relaxed hair, sideburn and mustache regs
Beards
Service Dress Khakis
Brown Shoes for Aviation personnel
The issue of leather flight jackets
The wearing of ribbons (e.g., "good for liberty") on short-sleeved khaki uniforms

Ah, yes…the good old days!

 

[IKE]

Having proofread a lot of official documents, I'm not sure military personnel can handle the responsibility.

For fuck's sake, not everything is a proper noun! Most people just sprinkle capital letters around like there's a quota or something.

Maybe they're just admirers of Thomas Jefferson's style. I think that's what they used to do to emphasize words before bold and italics existed.

 

[Hozer]

while they're at it, how about a status check on the paperless Navy?

 

[Lawman]

while they're at it, how about a status check on the paperless Navy?

Haha.

Yeah every time I hear somebody say the Army is going "green" I remind them that my leave packet is 20 pages of bullshit and a DA31.

 

[helolumpy]

I've met the random capital fairy...

Since there is only one "random capital fairy" (by you use of "the" rather than "a") that would make it a proper noun, therefore shouldn't it be capitalized (Random Capital Fairy)???

 

[phrogdriver]

Take a Pencil and jam it in your Eye.

 

[MIDNJAC]

Whenever I read something is "unserviceable," I imagine it being on the top of a really high mountain that no one can reach to perform the maintenance.

"Sorry sir, the tacan azimuth is unserviceable. We don't have the right climbing gear to get to it, and a blizzard just came through."

It would be nice if we could do away with codes and abbreviations in METARs and TAFs too. We have the bandwidth to send full words now. We should take advantage of that fact.

"......and we totally forgot the azimuth wrench as well"

 

[pourts]

Also, there ought to be some kind of rule governing precedence in NOTAMS. It's ridiculous, on the verge of being unsafe, to have to wade through 35 men working/taxiway closure/ 5 degrees of azimuth unavailable at a specific altitude/ 100 ft obstruction a mile from the runway centerline/ etc messages to get to the RUNWAY CLOSURE hidden in the middle.