The military is not what it used to be.KBCraig wrote:Yes, yes... we were warned that such a thing was Strictly Forbidden, and that we were Absolutely Not Allowed to request it.bburgi wrote:"Officially" blood wings are not allowed... but we'll just leave it at that.
So when the school commandant, LTC Leonard B. Scott ("Charlie Mike" hisownself), pinned on our wings, he didn't give us "blood wings". He did, however, offer hearty congratulations in the form of a manly slap on the chest.
The puncture wounds were entirely coincidental.
I can still feel the indents where my dolphins were tacked on. The first qualified submariner to tack them on was a second class engineman turned machinist mate who lived by "diesel boats forever". When I was qualifying he warned me he would be waitng to nail me. He put in a wake-up call when the CO pinned my fish on.
The CO did give me time to pull off the keepers and bend the pins in before he opened the door.
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