As it sometimes happens, deployed life unexpectedly kept me from making a new comic last night, and while usually I have a cache of backup strips, I’ve been unable to post one until right now.
That said, you can come back on Saturday when I resume the tale of “Barbie in the Big Blue.” That’s got a nice ring to it, I think.
Anyway, this strip is one I did in a series of semi-exclusive strips for the folks here in Djibouti. However, seeing as these days I’ll take any opportunity to make fun of the Navy (as evidenced by the next issue of Air Force Times) I’ll share this’n with y’all.
EMF = Expeditionary Medical Facility, for you civilian-minded folks.
-Farva
Naughty, naughty! My Chief’s better than your Chief, any day of the week!
Funny, but oh so true!
Just ask them how fun it is living on a BO-ATTT with other dudes for 6 months. That’s legal now, right?
Ha! Love it! Any chance of Navy Chief strips in the members section? I’m sure those would get colorful…
My Navy Chief boyfriend (retired) says, “That’s right dammit.”
A third of the Navy’s enlisted ranks have “chief” in the title. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Throw on some khakis and act like you’re an E9
A third? I don’t think so. NCOs E-4 to E-6) make up about two thirds of the Navy enlisted ranks, all by themselves, and that doesn’t take into account E-1 to E-3s. E-8 and E-9 billets are limited to specific percentages of the enlisted force, and that total is less than 10%.
@ Nova
Chief is used in the title for Chief Petty Officer, Senior Chief Petty Officer and Master Chief Petty Officer (E7, E8, E9 respectively)
@NavyDave
That would be 1% of enlisted force (for each service) are paygrade E9. Title X, Chapter 31, section 517 of the U.S. Code limits the combined total of E8s
and E9s on active duty to be no greater than 3.5% of the total enlisted force structure.
Yeah Pyle, pull your head out.
kill bill quote in the mouse over?
Bingo.
Navy wins because their senior enlisted leader has a bad-ass acronym… MCPON… McPwn… it wins…
Navy loses because at Sheppard AFB I ran in to a Seaman Sample, a Seaman Poole, a Seaman Puddle and a Seaman Guzzler… Sorry Navy, despite how bad-ass your Chiefs may be (and despite the fact that half your enlisted ranks contain the term), nothing can overcome a Seaman Guzzler with his name stitched on his ass…
That is awesome!
Navy is too confusing. In the Army, they salute anything that glints. Air Force… face it, you can feel the weight of the O Ego enter the room. I knew guys who could tell the rank, if they were a pilot or not, and what they flew by the change in the feel of the room alone.
Navy, hell, a Captain and a Master Chief look the same at anything greater then 6 feel.
You just have to know what the differences are. Us guys in the canoe club learn them very early on.
Oh you wanna go there
The Marines used to be like the army, and just salute any rank not black because we don’t really run into Chiefs all that much, but…now the Navy has those stupid silver rank insignias for all enlisted. So, now we just don’t salute anyone in the Navy at all.
Heh, there’s a lot of truth there across the board.
I’ve been Navy for almost nine years, and I will admit certain Chiefs and certain Gunnys in the Marines are some of the most frightening personas I’ve ever encountered.
The name game is a fun one though.
On my cruise onboard the USS Enterprise, I knew a Seaman Soliuea (pronounced Swallow), a Seaman Fag and, the guy with the greatest name on the entire boat………
Seaman Picard.
When I was stationed in Korea, I had a Seaman Drips come into my office. And then there was the two weeks on the USS Blue Ridge.