Hi, Chief! While you were gone I visited my parents. When I was growing up my dad was a Navy Chief, too. I went into his den and saw a plaque that hung on his wall when I was a little girl. It says:
“A Chief is always right. He may be misinformed, inexact, bullheaded, fickle, ignorant, even abnormally stupid but never wrong.”
Do you have one, too? 
(Forgive the smiley but I wanted you to know that it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. Honest.)
Welcome back!
I don’t believe we’ve met. I would have left out the smilie in my spider in your honor, but then all that would be left are lots of little legs.
I hope to see you around and get to know you (unless my spider faces repel you).
Bye for now!
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Hey there Chief Scott. Good to have you back.
Welcome back!
How’s your son doin’?
It’s about time you checked back in for duty! So you spent a half-year or so at sea; away from your son, intoxicating liquors, lubricious females…
Fergit that military duty stuff about nukes and Sicilian toilets; we’re talking goddamned, Straight Dope, whuppin’ ignorant ass, plain-talkin’, troll-stompin’ board obligations here!
(Actually you didn’t miss much. There was a minor British invasion in the Pit, with some newcomers dissing UncleBeer on account of his moniker–and stomping a jerk–but damned if they didn’t end up pretty much fun and fitting in. It’s enough to depress a saint.)
Though I’m a certified non-flirt, consider yourself firmly and enthusiastically kissed, sat down and supplied with refreshing beverages.
Veb
Oh, and you missed some sort of surreal experience centered on FreakFreely, who ended up leaving. I don’t think anyone quite figured out what the heck was going on, but it was bizarre. You probably don’t even want to know.
Hey, Chief! Welcome back.
Well, since you asked:
September 5, 2000 - Woke up at my usual “get ready to go to work” time, since it was the day after Labor Day and I had to go back to work. I took a shower and put on my white dockers, a black golf shirt (the one with the golf clubs and umbrellas print), black socks and black dress shoes. I got my morning Coke out of the fridge and…huh?
Oh.
Nothing happened.
Anyone else notice that Chief posted, then apparently ran off again?
Welcome back Chief!