11 thoughts on “Not Gentlemen”

1. I see a couple of ‘Right Arm Rates’ there and one Marine wannabe a sailor.

2. I don’t know this particular Navy history…these sailors have rates on either arm…what does it mean? What’s a right arm rate? I never heard that expression..k

   • Right Arm Rates Established in 1841 and disestablished 2 April 1949, originally signified men of the Seaman branch. During W.W.II these rates included Boatswains Mate, Turret Captain, Signalman, Gunners Mate, Fire Controlman, Quartermaster, Mineman, and Torpedomans Mate. Other ratings wore rates on the left sleeve.
     Thanks to http://www.goatlocker.org

     • So that’s why some of those Gene Kelly/Frank Sinatra Navy musicals/movies where they were tripping the light fantastic (dancing) and we could see both left and right arm rates.. I never knew…I went to the Goat Locker and that was an interesting albeit a foray into the unknown…I never made Chief but retired as a First Class…and now they don’t even have much in the way of the CT (Cryptologic Technician) Branch anymore…next year I will have been retired twenty years; seems like yesterday…thanks for the info…never too old to learn…k

       • Been 26 for me. Flew with a bunch of CTs in the Q. That’s the unknown rate. If they ever write a book talk about a blind mans bluff.

         • I flew with VQ-1 and 2. Good guys, but I always liked 2 better. . .

3. Salty white HATS and a Cover.

4. I could make a joke here about Navy gentleman and seamen but I won’t.

   Heh heh. Seamen. Heh heh.

   Hey, what do you you expect from a Doggie?

   • You know what’s long, round, and hard and fill of seamen? A submarine.

     • Yuk, yuk…my last duty station upon retiring was ComSubGru Ten, at Kings Bay, GA…in a SpintCom with a total of twelve CTs..k

5. NavyDavy: RGR! Hats. . .
   Six: You could not help it, right?
   CP: And I hear they serve torpedo subs on ‘em.
   Kris:Yuk yuk on your yuk yuk!

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