Here’s one
from a museum volunteer! This is pretty good… too good not to share!!!
I work on a
WWII aircraft carrier, the USS Hornet! It is now a museum and is at the old
Alameda Navy Base in Alameda, CA. I guess you can consider this a funny
military story, although it involved an old Navy ship, two Marines and a
Women's Army Corp (a pretend one anyway!)
Every couple months we have big band dances, like Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, etc. I work there and I also go to the dances as a WAC with my recreation group!!!
This dance was a couple months ago! Vince, an ex-Navy guy who lives on the ship had his brother, a Marine and his buddy, also a Marine on the ship visiting and they stayed for the dance!!!
During the dance Vince and I took them for a tour of the ship! When we were up at the Forecastle (where they kept the anchor chains) the two Marines asked me if I knew about the old Navy tradition of spitting out port holes!! I said no!! They said every time you pass a port hole you have to spit out of it!! So when we came to a porthole they would spit out of it then I would do the same, then Vince would follow suite!!!
This went on a bit because there were a lot of port holes!!!
So the next day I was on the ship again! We just happened to have the Navy Reserves there as well as some Marine unit too!! I kept asking the Navy guys, then the Marine guys about the "Old Navy spitting out of a porthole tradition."
They all looked at me blankly and said they didn't know about this tradition!!!
So later in the day, I saw Vince and asked him why no one had heard about this spitting out of the porthole thing! He just started laughing his head off!! I said…
Every couple months we have big band dances, like Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, etc. I work there and I also go to the dances as a WAC with my recreation group!!!
This dance was a couple months ago! Vince, an ex-Navy guy who lives on the ship had his brother, a Marine and his buddy, also a Marine on the ship visiting and they stayed for the dance!!!
During the dance Vince and I took them for a tour of the ship! When we were up at the Forecastle (where they kept the anchor chains) the two Marines asked me if I knew about the old Navy tradition of spitting out port holes!! I said no!! They said every time you pass a port hole you have to spit out of it!! So when we came to a porthole they would spit out of it then I would do the same, then Vince would follow suite!!!
This went on a bit because there were a lot of port holes!!!
So the next day I was on the ship again! We just happened to have the Navy Reserves there as well as some Marine unit too!! I kept asking the Navy guys, then the Marine guys about the "Old Navy spitting out of a porthole tradition."
They all looked at me blankly and said they didn't know about this tradition!!!
So later in the day, I saw Vince and asked him why no one had heard about this spitting out of the porthole thing! He just started laughing his head off!! I said…
"What? What?????????"
He said…
"Well didn't you notice those portholes were
getting lower and lower?"
I said…
"Yeah!?!"
He said…
"And you’re skirt was rising up... higher and
higher!!!”
Leave it up
to a couple of Leathernecks and a Crackerjack!!!
Well your damned if you do comment on this particular one and damned if you don't kinda. It's funny but kinda Pervy at the same time. Damn! I've become such a old married man!
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