If you are a Baby Boomer or Gen X then you probably remember the TV show Cheers. Millennials and Gen Z might not but maybe they caught it on The Netflix. Cheers was the local watering hole for a bunch of colorful characters who made it their home away from home. The bar was helmed by Sam Malone along with his fellow bartenders Coach and Woody, and his cocktail waitresses Diane and Carla. Rebecca came in later to help him…
It’s been awhile since I told a story from my military days, so I thought I would remedy that. This story is about the first time I launched missiles from a Navy ship. Yup, I was the guy with my finger on the button. If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time then you could probably predict that things did not go according to plan. Another great tagline I could use for this blog. OK, let’s get…
As promised, here’s the Humor in Uniform story that was selected by you readers and a virtual coin toss. When I was in the Navy and deployed to the Mediterranean Sea back in 1992, we stopped for a port visit in a little city called Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. We were only going to be there for two days and I had duty on one of those days so just one day of liberty for me. I’m sure…
When we last left our intrepid sailor he was trapped in a spooky old elevator at a hotel on Martinique island during a hurricane. Halfway between the first and second floor all the lights in the elevator went out! The elevator came to a stop and there I was in darkness. What was I going to do? There certainly wasn’t an emergency phone in this ancient elevator. I didn’t know if power to the hotel had been knocked out by…
Do you remember where you were during Hurricane Hortense in 1996? Probably not, since that storm never made landfall in the continental U.S. I, however, was not in the continental U.S. in September of 1996 and I remember that bitch well. I was in the Navy and serving a shore duty tour at the Fleet Technical Support Center in Mayport, FL. As a radar technician it was my job to go to ships that had broken gear and help fix…
When I was a child my parents had a subscription to those Reader’s Digest magazines. Remember those? They were little book sized magazines with all types of articles in them. They always ended up on a shelf next to the toilet in our bathroom. So while I did my business, I would often leaf through them. Most of the articles didn’t interest me but some of the stories did. Of particular interest to me was the section called Humor in…