Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Renalt]

MWR had an anime night and showed the Dark Tournament From Yu Yu Hakusho and out of the 10-11-ish people that ended up staying the lowest rank was 1st class petty officer(enlisted) and LT. Cmdr(Officer). Lower ranks showed up but they were so put off by the brass that they quickly left. I don't know if I should laugh or be ashamed.....

Don't know why lower enlisted always felt uncomfortable around NCOs/COs. They are just like everyone else when out of uniform...( Most of them anyway. Some want to be addressed by rank at all times and no one likes them )

We'd have cook outs and whatnot on the weekends. Technically we weren't suppose to mingle with the COC but we also operated as "It hurts no one if we tell no one".

For example I have a few different laughs depending on the mood...and they found a particular laugh they couldn't get enough of but it only happens when I'm tickled. Apparently I sound like a mix of Elmo and Charles Lee Ray AKA Chucky. It came out during a trip to Louisiana when WAR-X ( I think that's how it was spelled ) was going on in which the Reserves had like a month of training exercises and the actually Enlisted were there for support. So at one point I think I was accidentally tickled with something and I laughed...and you would have thought time stopped because it got really quiet with everyone looking at me. I told them sorry and that it doesn't happen often cause I don't get tickled often...BIG MISTAKE.

So now for the remainder of the exercise I'm getting ambushed left and right so they can hear the laugh. It starts to spread to other companies. I actually had an LT seek me out cause he had to see for himself.

Then once back home...it spread to the rest of my company and some of the other companies. It was a weird 2 years from that point. Also no I was never offended and they stopped the moment I wanted it to stop.

[Thaciscokidd]

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I honestly think it depends on branch and command.

Like I went to Keesler very early in my career and the zoomi..err Air Force cats would wear red and blue lanyard things and they would be like e-2 and e-3 which was some kind ranking in there tech school or something and think they could tell the navy and marines there what to do and I always got a kick out of telling them what they could do with there orders.

And then in Yoko you'd see some ships stick with there own rank unless they were over achievers, a certain type of person working for that 5.0, or were stationed on the Kitty Hawk (who did whatever they wanted to and use to get all of 7th fleet in trouble all the time). Before I met my wife I use to stick with the 3rd and 2nd classes because it was usually safe. There was enough trouble going that I didn't want that extra heat. Like yeah we did command stuff and cookouts but that was usually it. If your Chief walked into the bar, restaurant, pachinko parlor it was as bad as if shore patrol walked in and it was time to go. The Essex that was down in Sasebo fraternization got so bad with there MA's that they got investigated and caused everyone else to check themselves and that made me extra weary.

I can say that I personally didn't truly start hanging around Chief's and Officer until I got Frocked 1st class.