tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post2204800986120677012..comments2023-06-17T06:59:05.555-05:00Comments on Target: Babies in Open.<br> Fire For Effect.: Dear JohnComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-85589654767917558622010-10-30T15:25:49.231-05:002010-10-30T15:25:49.231-05:00MY OSC when I was XO went home after no one met hi...MY OSC when I was XO went home after no one met him on the pier...house had been sold, bank account emptied, wife and about 2 YO daughter gone...to WY, where wife had used proceeds to buy land and a mobile home for boyfriend.<br /><br />Mike got picked up for LDO during cruise. Before transferring to knife and fork, he also knew his new orders were to something in Alameda, home of "in-laws." He asked the flesh peddlers for any other billet for his soon to be LDO paycheck and he was told that was the single billet in the entire navy for an LDO.<br /><br />He wrote a letter, resigning his selection to LDO. That sucked so bad, because he had made E-7 in record time, becuase he was truly outstanding. When we had to "let and officer go," he graduated from asst INSURV guy to the INSURV guy and he knocked it out of the park...Done in three days, outbrief Thursday AM with Board apologizing for not realizing how little work they had, otherwise, we'd have debriefed Wed PM,<br /><br />Net result: That non letter Dear John cost the Navy an incredible leader. Oh, and when you turn down an LDO slot....they make sure you don't get E-8, too.chaoticsynapticactivityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030483517020312776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-39459262900810739122010-10-30T14:52:41.233-05:002010-10-30T14:52:41.233-05:00Breezy 21 at NAS Norfolk.
I got mine forty five d...Breezy 21 at NAS Norfolk. <br />I got mine forty five days after returning from the Indian Ocean in the Spring of 1981. And we had a two and a half year old daughter at the time.Glenn Mark Casselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11305109383344139028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-58376208766029093752010-10-28T17:56:45.882-05:002010-10-28T17:56:45.882-05:00One of the stokers I sailed with did not get a Dea...One of the stokers I sailed with did not get a Dear John letter, his best friends wife told her husband (the best friend), to tell him his wife had left with the kids and property. He couldn't get himself to tell him. He tried to get others to tell him to no avail. He tried to curtail his friend buyng of gifts for his family. Long story made short he stood alone on the jetty with an armload of presents. I have no idea what came of him, he sort of faded away.Allan Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09757239604220478557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-62520453402495138492010-10-21T14:16:03.586-05:002010-10-21T14:16:03.586-05:00I was on one ship where the Weapons Officer was un...I was on one ship where the Weapons Officer was undergoing a "Dear John" divorce. He was having a hard time of it. So one day, at lunch, the CO and XO started talking about the sanctity of marriage and how divorce was sinful. Weaps finished his lunch quickly, excused himself and left. <br /><br />I wasn't sure if he was going to return with a fire ax or a shotgun, so I excused myself as well.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4585442725225382080.post-72401635033183799682010-10-21T13:38:17.912-05:002010-10-21T13:38:17.912-05:00Number of sailors in my division (including DIVO a...Number of sailors in my division (including DIVO and myself) on last deployment: 9<br /><br />Number married: 3 (including myself)<br /><br />Number who returned home to find their apartment empty and wife/children gone: 2 <br /><br />It's a sad story. Neither one of these was totally unexpected-one of the sailors' marriage had been a headache for me from the day I stepped onboard. The other was getting hints that something bad was going to happen while we were underway. Hell he found out later the kid wasn't even his.kaigunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08237555298114011167noreply@blogger.com