AJChenMPH
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WHILE MIDSHIPMEN at Annapolis, we took 80-foot patrol boats out on the Chesapeake for ship-handling drills. Each of us had turns as helmsman, lookout, officer-of-the-deck and engineering officer.
I was standing watch as the engineering officer when a signal was given to execute a routine formation change. Another midshipman called out a variety of helm and engine orders. Realizing we weren't moving closer to our ordered position, he passed another command down the voice tube: "Ah, the heck with it! Just follow those other boats!"
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by Lt. Cmdr. Ronald Malec
Provided Courtesy of Reader's Digest.
I was standing watch as the engineering officer when a signal was given to execute a routine formation change. Another midshipman called out a variety of helm and engine orders. Realizing we weren't moving closer to our ordered position, he passed another command down the voice tube: "Ah, the heck with it! Just follow those other boats!"
--Contributed to "Humor In Uniform" by Lt. Cmdr. Ronald Malec
Provided Courtesy of Reader's Digest.