I remember as a small kid, my Dad taking me to the Oakland Embarcadero
for this Naval open house, getting to go down into this old submarine.
From that day on that was what I wanted to do. So enlisted at 18,
partly to avoid being drafted into the army and having to wade through
rice patties in Nam. So yes that made me technically a DRAFT DODGER,
but did my four years>>LOL, fighting the bar hogs, of Rota, Spain.
Anyway never got stationed aboard a sub, but on a tender working on
every one of them in our squadron. They wanted 6 year ETs (Electronic
Techs) with their 52 wks of A,B, and C school aboard those FBM boats.
I pretty much got the basics, being just a 4 yr. enlistee. Thank-you
but that was enough. Now if I had gone in as a musician, like the
recruiter wanted me to audition for the Navy band, having been a
drummer since the age of ten in all the public school orchestras or
bands, including our High school ROTC marching band, I probably would
have made it a career, but chose a different path. However I did get
to go through boot camp, in the recruit drum & bugle Corps (Forth
week, 1st day), having to go through the very BASICS of boot camp
first in a rifle company.
Like you said Ken, now the ASSHOLE will bark, but wasting his time
since I scroll past that POS.