You have got to love Rolex and their advertising. Appealing to submariners by naming a watch after them is genius. Nevermind putting a naval officer in the advertisement:
If you shipped out on the Skate, the Shark, or the Nautilus, you’d recognize this face, Rolex submariner.
Wow, for 175 clams, I’ll take ten! (Please ignore the fact that his collar device is high and to the left. . . Which is only good if you are a pitcher facing a left-handed hitter.)
There are so many things wrong with rapper 50 Cent wearing a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant’s uniform and a naval officer’s cover that I won’t bother pointing them all out:
50 Cent, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant or Naval Officer?
You might want to read what the good folks over at the Terminal Lance forum have to say. (Caution: Sailors and Marines can get a little salty in their wordage, be warned. . . )
The hallways at work are often crowded and I learn to expect certain people in certain areas. It only makes sense, right? So I’m plodding down the hall at my usual fast clip and I see Marine camouflage. And I think it is the Captain, a Marine. He is a prior Warrant Officer and keeper of many a humorous tale.
Hey- what’s up, man? I ask him, glancing at his uniform, rather than his face. We are, after all, right around the corner from his desk.
Good morning Sir, the surprised Master Sergeant says to me.
Achhhhh. We are passed each other and I groan. The Master Sergeant and I work on a collateral duty together. I should know what he looks like. I’ll see him later in the day when I have to brief our group.
Later in the day, after my brief, I go over to him. Hey Master Sergeant, I thought you were the Captain. And I think I called you man!
Sir, you did, he replies.
Sorry ’bout that, Master Sergeant.
He smiles. I’ve come to expect it from this place.
I don’t know whether he’s come to expect it from blind Navy dudes or from officers. But I stay quiet.
Even worse than those two categories is some blind duck who is both. A naval officer. . .
Good news, a forum that offers advice on how to get into the Nigerian Navy has surfaced. You can go here and ask all those burning questions you have been saving up:
-Hey fellas, just got information that the Nigerian Navy is recruiting for graduates to serve as officers.forms are selling for N1,000 at all navy installations nationwide.submission ends august 11.hnd and degree holders only,male and female.age between 25-35.full details on Guardian newspaper tuesday 18th july. goodluck,
whatever u do, dont stage a coup in ten years time!!!-how much do they pay does anybody know, and what are the benefits?
-Its not about money, its about serving your country, taking your ships your aircraft carriers and your submarines to protect Nigeria not how much they pay!
-yea right who do you think I want to work for Salvation Army? I need Money
-all the people i have informed do not buy the idea. they claim the job security there is almost like a prison.
-If the ability to swim is not compulsory, then the Nigerian Navy is a complete joke. There are no two ways about it. It is not only a sign of incompetence for a Naval officer to be a landlubber, the Nigerian Navy itself directly endangers the lives of all those sent out to sea without proper training. Naval personnel that cannot swim. What a ridiculous notion. Anyway, it’s Nigeria so why should anyone be surprised?
Ha ha, I did not mean to enjoy myself quite as much as I did reading these gripes.
