Navy Chiefs, they are amazing. They even have taken to tweeting when they lose their sheep. Wait? What the. . .
“There is a brown and white sheep which has gone missing with a nylon rope around its neck and it belongs to Mwangi’s father,” the Chief tweeted recently in the Swahili language. The sheep was soon recovered.
Oops, wrong Chief. This was a Kenyan Chief, Chief Francis Kariuki.
- Tweeting Navy Chief Francis Kariuki. Oops, Tweeting Kenyan Chief Francis Kariuki.
These Kenyan Chiefs don’t refer to themselves as the Goat Locker, but the Sheep Locker:
- US Navy Chiefs, Goat Locker
The Sheep Locker. Now that is one baaaaaad joke. Sorry, Chiefs. . .
OK, you got me. I was hooked, my mental sea story book was flipping wildly trying to match up to lost sheep. And I came up empty. Maybe I would have done better looking for lost farm animals.
I recall a port visit in Bonaire where this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H347JxViMs
became the theme despite the command’s direction we observe local wildlife restrictions.
http://www.donkeysanctuary.org/eng.html
I will say I was not the drunken fool careening across the landscape.
LOL, good one!
For the record the “Donkey” Great Big Sea is referring to is a tool used to load logs onto barges. In the olden days of steam ships that was how you loaded a ship.
And for any Sailor who is not a fan of GBS… shame on you. They are awesome.
I really hate it when someone gets my goat.
The Chief’s I served with would not look like the Chief Goat on the Goat Locker picture. The Chief’s quartets would be more like the Paunchy Palace.
The other Goat Locker http://www.goatlocker.org/index.html