This n That!

     Despite my previous declarations about not watching TV, I do watch sports frequently. The "not watching" applies to programs, news, movies, etc. Surfing between sports shows has shown how many commercials are aired, over and over and over again. It seems that a high percentage of the time than I switch to a game of interest it's during a commercial. 😒

    Yesterday's blog with the accompanying picture reminded me that as a Marine a whole new vocabulary, i.e., nomenclature, had to be learned. Part of it was military jargon. However, with the relationship between Marines and Navy, Navy parlance predominated. Here are some examples: bed=rack, floor=deck, door=hatch, cap=cover, wall=bulkhead, toilet=head, upstairs=topside, cafeteria=mess hall, stairs=ladder, kitchen police=mess duty, gun=rifle and don't ever make THAT mistake, Enough about this.

Takk for alt,

Al

A helicopter leaving the USS Princeton, LPH 5, note the 5 on the superstructure. This was in the Spring of 1962 and they went to Vietnam to relieve the first squadron of Army helicopters in the country. (LPH is Landing Pad Helicopter.)  I spent several months aboard this ship in the South China Sea and from Okinawa back to the States. That trip took half as long as the trip to Asia on a liberty ship which travelled at 13 knots.