# Questions about the history, practice, and policies of a US Navy 'Wardroom."

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-history-practice-and-policies-of-a-us-navy-wardroom/1029580 "2026-04-26T23:53:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-history-practice-and-policies-of-a-us-navy-wardroom/1029580/46 "2026-04-30T21:21:24Z")

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> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> You are coming in

This in itself implies that I have no right to comment here. Is that what you are saying? And if so, on what basis?

> [@ASL\_v2.0](#):
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> saying “someone told me a thing,” and expecting us to take it as the unimpeachable truth

I never said either explicitly or implicitly that this was anything more than hearsay. If I thought that anyone reading the comment would be expected to be familiar with the term “Ring Knocker” I wouldn’t have felt compelled to provide that hearsay as background information, but since the OP was asking about Naval traditions and culture I thought it necessary to provide background information for the uninitiated. Because that’s how I perceived that “this place works.”

Forgive me. I’ll crawl back under my rock.

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