Ok. On rereading the post I have picked up the sarcasm. I had to check my browser, the sarcasm detector was off. Stupid browser.
Anyway, good luck on your voyage! Soon enough you will be back making meals for GBS.
pat
All the best to you, your ship and crew, Chief. I’d use some appropriate nautical terms but the only ones I know are “run, sodomy and the lash”. (That was a joke, with no smilies!
FWIW, cut Chris some slack, okay big guy? I don’t know anything about the Navy either and it sounded to this landlubber like an innocent question, too. Chris is a sweetie and wouldn’t take a cheap shot on something like this. You and GBS seemed so sad over the separation I’d wondered the same thing myself.
You do something very tough and complex and while we appreciate all your sacrifices, some of us are genuinely naive about the Navy as a career. So please don’t be upset by what Chris wrote. She’s a genuinely kind person and wouldn’t for the world add to your upset.
Sheesh, so we’re trying to dream up an ideal happy ending for you, your son and GBS. Wishing you the best without having the least idea what that is,
Veb
ChiefScott- Hope the seas are decent to you.
I’m wondering…do any of your compatriots have as big a virtual entourage as you do? Do they know about your admirable status here?
Chief -
Hope you have a safe voyage. God be with you on your journey. And dammit, when you get back we ARE going to get together. I’d put a smiley here, but why make the guy any madder…
“You are sweet, kind, and considerate… Like a grown up boy scout with tits!”
- Brian, aka SDMB’s one and only Satan.
OK. I apologize.
I’ve never had a problem w/Chris before and she always seemed sweet. She just rubbed me the wrong way on difficult day.
I also have a tough time dealing w/assholes who demean the difficult job young kids are willing to do with meager pay, while others stay at home and bitch.
Sure. I’ve made the decision to make the Navy a career. That doesn’t make a deployment any easier.
So again, even though I think she was a touch nasty in her post, I’ll retract what I said.
“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
Forward deployed until 18AUG00
Didn’t mean to bust your chops, Chief, nor to speak for Chris. But you’re having a rough time and maybe forgot how highly people think of you around here, and wish you well. Just didn’t want you to feel worse.
Veb
Chief,
From another retired airdale, godspeed and safe journey. I gotta lot of admiration for you squids, but still don’t understand why you have to make your airbases float. 
AIR FORCE - NAVY GAME, YEAR 2000
AIR FORCE 24, NAVY 7
…send lawyers, guns, and money…
Warren ZevonChief, as I come from a small line of enlisted men, let me wish you a safe journey, and hope that the general level of stupidity you have to face is lower than the usual.
And should the tides of idiocy rise, and should you feel overwhelmed by the incompetency above and below you, stand strong, and take to heart the solid phrase a great hero once said:
“Brithael bites!”
JMCJ
Winner of the Mr. & Mrs. Polycarp Award for Literalizing Cliches for knowing an actual atheist in a foxhole.
Thanks all.
We’re heading south today to take aboard the rest of the air wing.
“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
Forward deployed until 18AUG00
I would like to say good luck Chef have fun! I hope the meals you prepare for them boys does them good! Just kidding, thank you for defending my freedom to sit on my lazy american ass and complain about my country. Good luck and Godspeed!
Whoa! It is a small world. Odds are very high that we encountered one another because I was one of the schmoes catching those OBA canisters and containers of AFFF and you were probably tossing out the door of an H-46. All I got to do was spray fog on hot bulkheads in the uptake shaft but I did make use of a couple of those OBA cans. Serious flashback time now.
Yeah, he’s got a serious bug up his ass. I’m not sure if a tiedown chain buoyancy test is called for but a G.I. shower might do the trick.
Holy shit…that’ll teach me to not check up on a thread.
Sorry to have upset you Chiefy…“Ohhh, I’m sorry for you” was said in all sympathy, with saddened eyes and slightly sticking-out bottom lip…in the manner of being sad that someone’s feelings are hurt, but definitely not in the manner of being a sarcastic bitch. Perhaps the message may have been better conveyed had I used a sad smiley. I’m pretty sure we all know why I didn’t, though.
I honestly had no idea when a person could transfer, quit, retire, whatever, as I’ve never been in the military. That’s why I asked.
Frankly, I’m surprised at the reaction…when have I ever been that kind of a heartless bitch? To ANYONE, much less my Brithael-bashing buddy, ChiefScott? Hello? Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt based on the non-violent, “can’t we all just get along” content of my previous posts, you guys.
Oh, and BTW, Vebbie? Danke.
“It’s okay. I wouldn’t remember me either.”
Chris, Chrissy, Christer, Chrismeister –
Let me apologize personally to ya sweetie. Sorry my boxers were all bunched up and I jumped down yer throught.
On re-reading your post I think I would have surmised your original intention if the “sigh” had come after the “in love and sappy stuff” instead of before that.
Veb jumped to yer defense pretty dern quickly, too. It must be great having lackies (I’d put a smiley here except for the fact that… well, you know.)
“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
Forward deployed until 18AUG00
{Imagine a smiley here, one who seems to be saying, “It’s all good.” }
“It’s okay. I wouldn’t remember me either.”
Chris hon, please accept my apology as well.
When you raise your right hand, you become government property, and some very important rights that civilians take for granted are no longer yours, until such time as you separate or retire.
When I read/hear civilians sounding off about something they know nothing about, it really twists my knickers, that’s all.
VB
Changing my Sigline 'cause Veb has a delicate stomach right now…
Chris, pardon my 2¢ as well as my ignorance of certain things.
From an old squid (USS Oklahoma City CG-5, 1974-76), godspeed. Keep us all in touch. Eat a lot of mid-rats. Holler if you need smiley repellant. Oh yeah, enjoy the sunsets, I still miss them.
GB
Chris, when you’re underway, it is of minimal help to be reminded that 99.99999% of the rest of the world is not. I think you grokked that.
Cool! Another Heinlein fan!
I got’em all, including an autograph!
VB
Changing my Sigline 'cause Veb has a delicate stomach right now…