{"id":32557,"date":"2012-10-24T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32557"},"modified":"2012-10-24T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T01:09:05","slug":"in-the-navy-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32557","title":{"rendered":"In The Navy – Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

NB: This is satire! It does fit well with my earlier post though.<\/a> Thanks John A.<\/p>\n

SECNAV Reintroduces Grog to the Navy<\/a><\/p>\n

In a surprise announcement yesterday, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus reversed a key portion of the initiative known as \u201cThe 21st Century Sailor<\/a>.\u201d \u00a0After the fleet-wide failure of his \u201cbreathalyzer on every quarterdeck\u201d policy, Mabus announced that the Navy would not only do away with the newly installed devices, but bring back the tradition of alcohol rations. \u00a0The announcement was all the more stunning as it came after a period of 24 hours in which no one could seem to find the Secretary.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s Sailors understand leadership and motivation,\u201d Mabus said to reporters at the U.S. Naval Academy, who filed into Mahan Hall Auditorium for a hastily assembled press conference. \u00a0\u201cAfter spending the evening with the combat-leaders-in-training on the Academy\u2019s Varsity Cheerleading Squad, exchanging ideas at various establishments around Annapolis, I became convinced we need a course change in our policy. We need spirit back in the U.S. Navy!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like bringing back the USS Constitution to full combat service this is one of those things that almost makes sense.<\/p>\n

Although not ‘grog’ there were spirits\u00a0 carried on ships when I was in during the ’60s.\u00a0 During an UNREP (underway replenishment for the Army guys) a guy got tangled up in a cargo net and briefly dunked in the ocean. His was given a shot of something in a glass. This led to\u00a0 a discussion of just what it would take to warrant\u00a0 shots all around. Don’t remember the consensus reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NB: This is satire! It does fit well with my earlier post though. Thanks John A. … In The Navy – Redux<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}