Dan The Navy Man

I gotta funny message from a friend I’ve made over the last few years… a fellow seagoing mariner who’s an expat retired several times ove...

You refer to the family car as the "liberty boat". You refer to the drive-through at McDonald's as an "UNREP". Your...

Anyone out there ever heard about this little mythological yarn about the 1MC?!?   In port, tied up to a pier…   "Sweepahs, Sw...

The following letter is a prime example of bureaucracy at its best!   It was written and sent in 1942 by the CO of the USS Skipjack in an e...

Distrustful of the Mess Specialist’s culinary talents, the ol’ salty Petty Officer asked the senior ‘Cooky’ in the galley... “How do ...

This letter was sent to me by a fellow shipmate a few weeks back! I don’t rightly know who the author is or when this was even written but...

A young wife, her boorish husband and a young good-looking Crackerjack Sailor were shipwrecked on an island! One morning, the sailor ...