COMSUBBBS
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Location: Alexandria, Virginia | Subject: USSVI and selfless service...We're lucky bluejackets
The easiest thing in the world is to park your butt on a tree limb and whine about things. I had a COB who used to say that "A damn sailor could complain with a titty in his mouth." Anyone who knows Tom Conlon, John "Gumba" Carrciopolo (forgive me Gumba if I loused the spelling of your name up), Pat Householder. John Wynn, Ron Martini, Gil Raynor, Don Gentry, John Clear...Jim Christley, Ray Stone...the late Gary "Cowboy" Mclaughlin...Bob and Sid Harrison....Ron "Warshot" Smith, has to appreciate the time selflessly and generously given to perpetuate the lives given to the everlasting honor of Americas undersea service. For the life of me, I can't understand anyone finding fault with the wheel house personnel of SubVets...Any outfit has periodic mistakes...has to make downline course corrections...has to sort out the validity and value of expressed contrary opinions...Hell, we're boatsailors...life would have been duller than we could have tolerated without three day arguments that pot stirring shipmates got going in the messdeck....I remember a discussion about guys called Beatniks...damn thing went on for three days and nobody can remember how it was resolved. Here's the way I see it...if you're not sitting at an oar rowing the boat, you haven't got any skin in the game and your grousing, complaining, whining, moaning, groaning and pants peeing has the par value of a tick fart...USSVI is a wonderful organization and has been shepherded and guided to the point where it has become the fine outfit it has become by some very fine ahipmates....You find me a veteran's organization our size with a finer journal than the AMERICAN SUBMARINER...you can't. Find me a submariners exclusive watering hole like 40 School Street....Horse and Cow is privately owned and doesn't have Joe Negri's uniform, an artifact one step below the Shroud of Turin....I had a cook on REQUIN named Rodney A. "Rat" Johnson...if you complained about the chow he would grab your plate, knock the contents out into a sharpshooter bucket and tell you "to go eat down the street"...Hey, if you've got an AWOL bag load of whines with USSVI, "GO EAT DOWN THE STREET." DEX |
USSVI and selfless service...We're lucky bluejackets
