How is the navy life? Do you travel around the world a lot?

[FSTO]

On my last Ship it was customary for C&POs and Officers to land gash and Jrs to store ship. That's usually how we did it when we came alongside.

Oh how times have changed. I recall on my first ship as a MARS II, disposing of all the gash over the stern while off Royal Roads.

 

[Halifax Tar]

Best part of the Navy is Landing gash. Extra points for volunteering to do wet gash!!

Are you peasants on the left coast still doing it by hand ? We crane that stuff off now homie.

 

[dimsum]

I think that's pretty much the SOP now, which is good I think. May as well divide and conquer, and it's nice for everyone to get their hands dirty once in a while to remind them things don't just happen.

Huh. Is this "200 years of tradition..." changing?

 

[Gunnar]

Okay, so for a landlubber, wet gash is what exactly? Food waste? And having first off the boat handle it for ease of landing makes sense, as well as having seniors do a crap job that saves everyone time and unpleasantness at the cost of much unpleasantness for some....

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Okay, so for a landlubber, wet gash is what exactly? Food waste? And having first off the boat handle it for ease of landing makes sense, as well as having seniors do a crap job that saves everyone time and unpleasantness at the cost of much unpleasantness for some....

Gash is garbage/refuse, "Wet" Gash is food waste, some of which has been sitting in the sun on the deck in the heat for days. It smells real good

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Gash is garbage/refuse, "Wet" Gash is food waste, some of which has been sitting in the sun on the deck in the heat for days. It smells real good

It used to be better when we dumped food waste at sea and fed the fish.

I have no idea why that is environmentally unfriendly…

 

[FSTO]

It used to be better when we dumped food waste at sea and fed the fish.

I have no idea why that is environmentally unfriendly…

Feel good points?

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Feel good points?

Probably the local MP owns the recycling company and realized His Majesty wasn't contributing.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Probably the local MP owns the recycling company and realized His Majesty wasn't contributing.

It was actually an update to the IMO rules; you can still do it 12 miles out (or within 3 miles if it's ground up and you aren't in a special area).

Meanwhile lobsters off Halifax still feed off raw sewage that's only been screened.

https://wwwcdn.imo.org/localresourc... provisions of the revised MARPOL Annex V.pdf

 

[OldSolduer]

Meanwhile lobsters off Halifax still feed off raw sewage that's only been screened.

Mutated lobsters. There was one in a lobster shop - New Bedford? - near Halifax and it was in its own tank. IIRC it weighed over 100 pounds and estimated to be 130 years old in 1984.

 

[Kat Stevens]

In a much less enlightened age "landing gash" had an entirely different meaning among the piggier set.

 

[medicineman]

It was actually an update to the IMO rules; you can still do it 12 miles out (or within 3 miles if it's ground up and you aren't in a special area).

Meanwhile lobsters off Halifax still feed off raw sewage that's only been screened.

https://wwwcdn.imo.org/localresources/en/OurWork/Environment/Documents/Simplified overview of the discharge provisions of the revised MARPOL Annex V.pdf

Sounds a bit like the salmon and some of the halibut you get off Ogden Point in Victoria near the outlet there...

 

[MJP]

In a much less enlightened age "landing gash" had an entirely different meaning among the piggier set.

In true CA fashion wet gash was an entirely different and not experienced conception

 

[Jarnhamar]

Please share some stories about navy life

A friend of mine deploys with the Navy a lot. He says every time they deploy it's like their first time, I'm sure he means everyone is cheerful and happy.

 

[dimsum]

A friend of mine deploys with the Navy a lot. He says every time they deploy it's like their first time, I'm sure he means everyone is cheerful and happy.

It’s like 50 First Dates I’m sure.

 

[lenaitch]

Mutated lobsters. There was one in a lobster shop - New Bedford? - near Halifax and it was in its own tank. IIRC it weighed over 100 pounds and estimated to be 130 years old in 1984.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Join the Infantry. Go to exotic places, meet exotic people, then kill them.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

A friend of mine deploys with the Navy a lot. He says every time they deploy it's like their first time, I'm sure he means everyone is cheerful and happy.

Much like our deployments. Lessons Identified not Lessons Learned. Every roto is roto zero.

 

[Kris Ackerman]

Join the Infantry. Go to exotic places, meet exotic people, then kill them.

I think

Join the Infantry. Go to exotic places, meet exotic people, then kill them.

What kinds of people have you killed?

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I was never Infantry.