How To Simulate Life In The Navy

[MOTORHEAD427]

HOW TO SIMULATE LIFE IN THE NAVY

 

1. Buy a dumpster, paint it gray and live in it for 6 months straight.

 

2. Run all of the piping and wires inside your house on the outside of the walls.

 

3. Pump 10 inches of nasty, crappy water into your basement, then pump it out, clean up, and paint the basement "deck gray."

 

4. Every couple of weeks, dress up in your best clothes and go the scummiest part of town, find the most run down, trashy bar you can, pay $10 per beer until you're hammered, then walk home in the freezing cold.

 

5. Perform a weekly disassembly and inspection of your lawnmower.

 

6. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays turn your water temperature up to 200 degrees, then on Tuesday and Thursday turn it down to 10 degrees. On Saturdays, and Sundays declare to your entire family that they used too much water during the week, so all showering is secure.

 

7. Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling.

 

8. Have your next door neighbor come over each day at 5am, and blow a whistle so loud that Helen Keller could hear it and shout "Reveille, Reveille, all hands heave out and trice up".

 

9. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in the back yard at 6am and read it to you.

 

10. Eat the raunchiest Mexican food you can find for three days straight, then lock yourself out of the bathroom for 12 hours, and hang a sign on the door that reads "Secured-contact OA division at X-3053."

 

11. Submit a request form to your father-in-law, asking if it's ok for you to leave your house before 3pm.

 

12. Invite 200 of your not-so-closest friends to come over, then board up all the windows and doors to your house for 6 months. After the 6 months is up, take down the boards, wave at your friends and family through the front window of your home...you can't leave until the next day you have duty.

 

13. Shower with above-mentioned friends.

 

14. Make your family qualify to operate all the appliances in your home (i.e. Dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.).

 

15. Walk around your truck for 4 hours checking the tire pressure every 15 minutes.

 

16. Get up at 4 A.M. sit in your truck start it and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lighted off."

 

17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house, and sweep your driveway 3 times a day, whether they need it or not. (Now sweepers, start your brooms, clean sweep down fore and aft, empty all trashcans over the fantail)

 

18. Repaint your entire house once a month.

 

19. Cook all of your food blindfolded, groping for any spice and seasoning you can get your hands on.

 

20. Use eighteen scoops of budget coffee grounds per pot, and allow each pot to sit 5 hours before drinking.

 

21. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item.

 

22. Spend $20,000 on a satellite system for your TV, but only watch CNN and the Weather Channel.

 

23. Avoid watching TV with the exception of movies which are played in the middle of the night. Have the family vote on which movie to watch, and then show a different one.

 

24. Have your 5-year-old cousin give you a haircut with goat shears.

 

25. Sew back pockets to the front of your pants.

 

26. Spend 2 weeks in the red-light districts of Europe, and call it "world travel."

 

27. Attempt to spend 5 years working at McDonalds, and NOT get promoted.

 

28. Ensure that any promotions you do get are from stepping on the dead bodies of your co-workers.

 

29. Needle gun the aluminum siding on your house after your neighbors have gone to bed.

 

30. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone, and shout at the top of your lungs that your home is under attack, and order them to man their battle stations. ("General quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations")

 

31. Make your family menu a week ahead of time, and do so without checking the pantry and refrigerator.

 

32. Post a menu on the refrigerator door informing your family that you are having steak for dinner. Then, make them wait in line for at least an hour, when they finally get to the kitchen, tell them that you are out of steak, but you have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they don't pay attention to the menu any more, so they just ask for hot dogs.

 

33. When baking a cake, prop up one side of the pan while it is in the oven. Spread icing on real thick to level it off.

 

34. In the middle of January, place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have you family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4-hour intervals.

 

35. Lock yourself and your family in your house for 6 weeks. Then tell them that at the end of the 6th week you're going to take them to Disneyland for "weekend liberty." When the end of the 6th week rolls around, inform them that Disneyland has been canceled due to the fact that they need to get ready for Engineering-certification, and that it will be another week before they can leave the house.

 

37. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have you wife whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep. She should then shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack."

 

38. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub, move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while you soap down.

 

39. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, find a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.

 

40. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.

 

41. For ex-engineering types: leave the lawn mower running in your living oom eight hours a day.

 

42. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.

 

43. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbors house. Ignore his complaints.

 

44. Every other month buy green or red marine primer and put it in a paint sprayer. Spray it over the roof of your house onto your neighbors car. Ignore his complaints.

 

45. Lock wire the lug nuts on your truck.

 

46. Buy a trash compactor, but use it only once a week. Store the garbage on the other side of your bathtub.

 

47. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread.

 

48. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night, jump up and get dressed as fast as you can making sure you button up the top button on your shirt, stuff you pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.

 

49. Once a month, take every major appliance apart and put them back together again.

 

50. Install a fluorescent lamp under the coffee table, and then get under it and read books.

 

51. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills of your front and back doors so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through one of them.

 

52. Every so often, throw the cat in the pool and shout "Man overboard, starboard side" Then run into the house and sweep all the pots and dishes off the counter. Yell at the wife and kids for not having the kitchen "stowed for sea."

 

53. Put on the headphones from your stereo set, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck with string. Go stand in front of your stove. Say ... to no one in particular "Stove manned and ready" Stand there for three or four hours. And say again to no one in particular "stove secured" Roll up your headphones and paper cup and place them in a box.

 

Courtesy of Joe Falco of Joe`s Diecast Shack...Thank you Joe!

 

ERIC

[Pete84]

Wow. How close is that to actually being in the Navy? A guy at work is going to navy boot camp, whatever it is called, on the 25th. Aksed him why the navy, and he said " why not?"

[wickiewicked240z]

i wouldn't last a minute.

 

how about having your boss come over with a big @ss banner saying "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"

[280zwitha383]

I wouldn't last because I have to sleep for ATLEAST 8 hours a night. 9-10 and I'm happy.

[Pop N Wood]

Ah, the memories....

[woldson]

Try submarines, Sonar tech subs, worse yet during clintons administation.

[tannji]

Ah, the memories....

 

Quoted for truth = )

[gogriz91]

I tell everyone I know who is thinking about joining the military to join the Air Force.

[MOTORHEAD427]

I tell everyone I know who is thinking about joining the military to join the Air Force.

 

Why Air Force? What`s the difference?

 

Here`s my favourite:

16. Get up at 4 A.M. sit in your truck start it and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lighted off."

 

ERIC

[MatMan]

Better food, I'm told.

[COZY Z COLE]

Better food, I'm told.

 

Best military food that I ever ate in the Army was on a Navy troop ship on a 21 day cruise to Vietnam... 5,000 plus on the ship.

 

 

LARRY

[Corzette]

I don't see where the problem is? I always enjoyed the rides they gave us (USMC Retired)...

[veritech-z]

Hey Terry, when did you retire? Have you been retired this whole time?

[Corzette]

Hey Terry, when did you retire? Have you been retired this whole time?

 

Hey Max! Yes Sir I have been retired since Feb 2004. I am working for the DOD here at Fuji with the Marines...guess I just can't get enough..lol.

 

Terry

[veritech-z]

Oh cool. How is your son doing? Is he still into it now that he's full time?

[Corzette]

Oh cool. How is your son doing? Is he still into it now that he's full time?

 

He is fine and waiting on his MOS school to start. He said he got paired up with a total dirt bag though in his room assignment...lol. Gotta love those dirt bags....A.K.A. the %10 or turds... He wants to go to Okinawa after school so I think there is a good chance of that...we will see!

 

His vocabulary has changed alot...lots of F words and such....lol.

[Sven]

That never gets old. People that haven't been there just don't get how close to the truth it really is. It's not a joke, but just put in terms a normal person can relate to...

 

BTW, these are the sort of things people dream up with when submerged for 60 days on a SpecOp.

http://www.newnavy.us/navy/mcnavy.htm

[gogriz91]

Why Air Force? What`s the difference?

 

Here`s my favourite:

16. Get up at 4 A.M. sit in your truck start it and let it run for 4 hours before going anywhere. This is to ensure your engine is properly "lighted off."

 

ERIC

For one reason, they don't live on ships for 3-6 months at a time. Don't get shot at nearly as much as the Army or the Marines for the same amount or, if you're a flyer, better money.

[riverz]

I like it but it does still have its stupid stuff, most of it is because the cheif said or something like that. I have seen a lot of the world. Even went to europe. Working on planes is fun and will pay good when i get out. The air force is probly the most layed back of all.

[SilentNight1647]

Wow what an accurate portrayal of Navy life, I didn't think anyone could capture the "feeling" of shipboard life that well. Oh well they sent me to Japan and I couldn't be happier especially since I sleep in a barracks in Atsugi and not on the Kitty. Back when I was in Norfolk we would take field trips to Langley for cross service morale building namely raiding the Air Force mess hall (they have way better food) but it's all good fun, now if you'll excuse me I need to dissasemble the largest POS on the planet (E-2C Hawkeye) for it's corrosion inspection.