Your Navy quiz of the day, what is the MANTIS?
Multi-Aircraft Nose and Tail Interface System (MANTIS), USS Harry S. Truman
Hint, MANTIS stands for Multi-Aircraft Nose and Tail Interface System. (And no, it is not some giant scale for Sailors who are slightly out of regs.)
I thought it was for weighing Naval Officers wallets prior to flying; excess baggage, and all being considered…
Yours Aye.
Haha! You joke, but there was an Intel O, a LTJG, who had to be told that the Petty Officers were not on the carrier to carry her seabag around. . .
She was a junior ‘O’ no doubt…because those are the only ones who think the enlisted types are their personal lackeys….k
Yes, guilty as charged. Two years in the Navy, she was.
That same Seaman’s kit-bag would have found itself doing ‘man over board’ drills PDQ on a ‘grey funnel line’ ship…
Yours Aye.
It would not be the first time it has happened. I’ve heard stories.
They seriously only developed something like that only now?
If I would have known they needed something like that, I’d be rich right now.
What else do they need that takes common sense to make and sell for beucoup Dollars?
We could really use some mess food that does not turn our Sailors into dough-boys and dough-girls. . .