Captain Bacon (aka Jeff) has beautifully captured the essence of so many memorable moments in my Navy career. Through his gifts I can look back and see myself in so many different situations and can again feel my love of the Navy and life at sea. Thank you, sir!
The couple on the beach hit a big funny bone. Back in 1971, my cousin and his girlfriend were doing a year tour of Europe and Algeria, in their VW Westphalia camper. They found a lovely beach one evening, in Greece and decided to camp there. Nobody warned them that NATO was coming in for a pre-dawn similated invasion, the next morning. Needless to say they got the surprise and shocked of their your lives. Great cartoons.. Thanks
I loved this. Im glad to hear there is more coming. They always brought a smile! As a retired AF weather forecaster, we have a special fondness for our Navy counterparts. Three of my best friends are retired Navy weather Chiefs.
These Broadside cartoons sure bring back memories of the time that I spent serving in the Navy especially time onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Thanks.
Before I 86d my Facebook account, I made it a point to share Broadside cartoons on Navy birthday. It always gave me an opportunity to explain the finer points of naval life, and why the Navy isn't the Army or Air Force.
I'm old school Navy .... 1969-1972 ... Amphibious sailor .... 'A gang' ..... I was told by an officer I met at my workplace "I was in the good Navy ... before women came aboard ships!" So some time before Broadside. The cartoon about the 'locked suggestion box' had me rolling on the floor .... though I can't place ever seeing a suggestion box on my ship. The color of the uniforms in the cartoons, threw me off. Back when I was sailing the Pacific ... officers and chief's wore khaki's ... and enlisted wore bell bottom dungaree blue trousers, and a lighter shade of blue dungaree shirts with white caps
These are golden! Never saw "Broadside," so this is my introduction. Laughed at nearly all of them, but genuinely laughed out loud at "Bos'uns Whistle!"
I was scratching my head till you told me the date of the first cartoon. I was in and out before he drew his first cartoon. I was bought here by the signalman which doesn't exist anymore. SM2 78'-82' USS Independence, which doesn't exist anymore. Went to bootcamp and A school in Orlando Naval Base, which doesn't exist anymore. I have no Alma Mater.
HooAh!!! Navy Brother!!! or I guess you say " Bravo Zulu ". Remember seeing these in my 24 years in active Army. Well Done and thank you for sharing with us☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
my father was a 30 year Master Chief Hospital Corpsman E9. 1944 to 1975. now he and my mother are interred at Arlington Cemetery. he lived and breathed Navy. would have laughed like crazy at these cartoons.
Career Army, 26 years, and I can relate to nearly all of these....but then, I guess all branches can, right? LOL! Each one, is right up there with our own "Private Murphy's Law" in Army Times.
I recall the Army producing the Operation and Maintenance manuals done in cartoon style. You'd find them in every shop. Very informative and entertaining. Drawn by Will Eisner. My Father was Army. This We'll Defend Fair winds and following seas.
@@GySgt_USMC_Ret. The good 'ol PS Magazine. Eisner was a God when it came to relating, in sketches, the plight of Army mechanics. Not to mention, the wholly worthy worship of the female form he was so adept at recreating for the lonely GI stuck in Korea, or the bowels of Germany!
Mr Bacon’s first sea duty was as the AS Division officer aboard the USS Cook. I was a second class PO in his division. I have nothing but good memories of him. I didn’t find out about the cartoons until a few years ago.
👍🏼 My current profession has a lot of ex military! Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force! It makes it sooo easy to get things done! If anything, the Military taught teamwork!!!
As a GMG on a AO I was the guy with the shot line gun, Every time I would get ready to fire the call would come up "Get the guy in the khaki" or "Beer for the guy in the white helmet" It was so funny.
We were pulling alongside an LSD for an unrep, and there was a Marine on deck not paying any attention to anything. So the first GMC said to the the second GMC, "I bet you can't hit that asshole." The second one just gave him a look - challenge accepted. The shot literally missed the marine by only a foot. He went down on all fours scrambling frantically for cover. It was great.
I was on a CG during an UNREP . A new deckape decided that he wanted to see the shotline come over . The took the hit on his kapok and fell on his ass and everyone laughed .
I was also a GMG on a AOE. During one unrep I put my shot right on target. The guy next to me decided to shoot a little high; he put his shot right through the open port bridge wing door, through the bridge, and out the starboard bridge wing door. What a shot!
I served under Jeff on his first ship. He was my DO. In the cruisebook for the second WESTPAC we were on, Jeff drew caricatures of all the officers. The XO got hit in the face by a shot line during an Unrep somewhere Arabian Sea. Luckily, he wasn't seriously hurt. For the cruise book Jeff drew him as a pirate with an eyepatch. Classic
I never served, but I wasn’t to thank all of you who have served. All the millions of US patriots in arms who made it possible for Jeff to crack me up this evening.
My dad was a CPO and retired after 24 years. He spent two years in the Marine Corps during WWII then when he couldn’t find a job he joined the Navy Reserves in Spokane. They didn’t give him a uniform so at the first muster he wore his Marine winter greens. When the Captain was inspecting the group of white hats he stopped in front of my dad and asked “”What the hell are you doing here Marine?” Without missing a beat he replied “Missionary duty sir.” The entire group cracked up laughing. The Captain just shook his head and walked on. We traveled all over the world. He was the Navy personnel on Kwajalein when it it handed over to the Army, NAS Atsugi, NAS Olathe Kansas, NAS Glynco Georgia, GITMO then finally NAS Sand Point Seattle, WA. My dad died last week and the last cartoon in this video made my eyes a bit wet.
Funniest personal experience I had (while searching for retirement from the Marine Corps for many years) was the time I encountered a BM at Pearl Harbor...I asked what he did (job duties), and he smoothly replied, 'I run the ship...everything on the ship...Skipper turns to me first, in fact'...a CPO, meanwhile was standing right behind him...but the screaming was obvious, as I walked away...it was NOT a correct answer...
Two cartoons stand out to me that reminds me of my service. The one with the old guy saying "when I was your age....". I was a young (20) L/Cpl. I was hanging out by the company office when our Bn. Cmdr. and Sgt. Maj. stopped by and started to talk to me. The Lt. Col. asked me what year I was born. I said 1962. They looked at each other and laughed. They saw the look on my face so they answered my question I didn't ask. They said " we were already in the Corps then". I thought to myself damn they're old. They were probably 42 or so. I wish I was 42 again. The 2nd one was the scout swimmers in the surf zone. We were in a hide in an "undisclosed location". My buddy Jim woke me up and pointed just a couple hundred yards away at a young couple going at it. They thought they were alone. Since then I never took it for granted that I was alone.
Sometimes I thought the only reason to pick up a Navy Times was to see the Broadside cartoons. Hank Ketchem of "Dennis the Menace" fame did the Halfhitch cartoons. Most of them were motivational posters as I recall.
I don't think I have ever seen this man's cartoons. My time in the Navy ended in 1980. It is really a distinct pleasure to discover 'Cap'n' Bacon's talent for the many comical absurdities of Navy and service life. I was in the Weapons Division on an old oiler, and since we dis unrest around the clock, I had to develop some expertise with the shotline gun and so the cartoon about the shotline point scores did tickle me. Thanks, Master chief.
On my desk I had the Broadside of the "blame game" on the bridgewing for the gunfire that missed its target. It starts with the CO asking why they missed and as it goes through the chain of command with everyone having an excuse... the last excuse falls on the Supply Officer who didn't get the training manual on time.
This is a great selection of Broadsides. I'm sitting here watching your video while choking on my laughter while my wife is trying to tell me something serious about her mothers cooking. Thanks, EMCM(SS/SW/AW) R. McClure
Master Chief this was a great compilation of Bacon. I to have enjoyed his humor but the Navy doesn't hold a corner of his cartoons. I'm a retired Coast Guard Senior Chief and the cartoons go for us as well. Especially since I was an ST and sailed l our large cutters and greyhounds as well as an ASW instructor. Thanks again and I'll be looking at your other posts.
This is great! I was in the Army, but I understand!!! As a suggestion, there is another very well done comic series titled Footrot Flats, about farmers in New Zealand.
I served two Viet Nam combat tours the year I joined and the next, 1968-1969 and honorably discharged in 1971.. That was before this cartoon I have never seen until now.
At least the Signalman is forming the letter J by semaphore. Very few if any in the navy today can send or receive semaphore, the rate was discontinued in 1992 I believe. Old salt SM2.
This was after my time in, 1964 to 1970. I still have an All Hands Mag around here someplace. We did have some cartoons in those too but as to who did them I can't remember. Thanks and it is Sub ma REEN er!
Seems Jeff Bacon was in during the time dad was in and retired just 4 years after dad. Dad too was a MCPO ( 1964-1971 retirement) and one of the things he qualified on just before becoming a MC was taking the USAF Aerographer course (yeah, yeah USAF v Navy training , taught him to stick his wetted finger up to see which way the wind was blowing ;-) ). He also took the USAF course on Hand, Shoulder, and Base Defense Weapons ( including M2MG and Claymores ). Now those two courses would seem not to tie in to what dad's specialty was ( CT ) but do when you look at where he was going in 1964. He was in route ( Brazil ) when he made MC and was headed to a ship based in Africa. The ship, the USNS Jose F. Valdez. Dad was in from 1946 till his retirement in 1971 when he retired at Homestead Air Force Base ( Navy Admin Building, the first one you came to on the AFB and best looking one :-) ) with his former CO ( late 1950s ) and good friend, Admiral G.P. March attending. Congrats on your also being one of the one percenters.
Some of those were really great! I want to mention, though, that all those jokes about loogies in the coffee etc., well, it's a point of pride in food service that you never ever mess with anyone's food. No true food service person would do a thing like that and would narc out anyone who did because it's disgusting.
I could never do to someone else what I wouldn’t want to be done to me. Nothing makes me more angry than people who mess with other peoples food thinking it’s somehow funny. It isn’t. Respect.
I didn't see any of his cartoons when I was on active duty or in the Reserves (1965-69 active, 74-83 Reserves), but his humor reminds me a lot of Bill Mauldin from WW II.
Even though I was in the Navy pre-Bacon I could still relate to most all of these. I'd never heard of Broadside before, now I'm off to order the books!
1:07 I got a special kick out of this one. My dad was a GA pilot and once when I was really little he made a rather hard landing, then heard me from the back say, "Too much rudder, Daddy."
The first thing I would look for in the Navy Times was the Broadside cartoon. As a retired Supply Officer, my all time favorite cartoon was of the Disbursing Officer telling ghost stories about the surprise disbursing audit. So appropriate and funny when you can look back on it.
HMC, had to put in a chit to miss a unit evolution, said due to chief's retirement ceremony. CO asked me to skip as I would be needed. I politely informed him that I was one of the seven chief's retiring that day. Had put in papers 3 months earlier and prepped the unit for the upcoming evolution. A real Rodney Dangerfield moment.
Great stuff M C--Capt. Bacon was after my time (1966--1972)..Is he any kin to Capt.Roger Bacon...Capt..on the USS FLASHER SSN--613 when I checked out...Truthfully he could fill a library with what was available in the BOATS..Thank you sir for the memories!!!!!!!
Jeff Bacon was after my time. I was in when LCDR Melville C. Murray was drawing cartoons for All Hands. I met him when I was at Navy Astronautics Group, many years later. Thanks Master Chief. Jon, RM2, MSO-439
My first intro to Broadside was at the naval hospital at the blood lab for my medical exam. It was the blood drawing cartoon. It was enlarged and prominently posted in the waiting room but the lab techs assigned names to the characters. Imagine how nervous I was when I got called up by THAT guy.
My dad was enlisted Navy too. '39-'59 Wounded at Pearl Harbor. He passed before I could ask any important questions. Me? 25 years Army, still am. LOVED the MC Retires... Now we can't use *!#@! Oh how far we have fallen!
...military humor is pretty much universal across all services...and civilian life...at least to this 71 year old Army vet of 2 years, 8 months & 26 days in Germany in the early 70s...
Each Service seems to have their own version - the two I'm familiar with from my time in the service are the Army's "Private Murphy's Law" by Master Sergeant (Retired) Mark Baker, and the Marine's "Terminal Lance" by Lance Corporal Maximilian Uriarte... The artist of the last one is still drawing: terminallance.com/ ... and it's apparently a tradition dating back to "Willie and Joe" by Staff-Sergeant Bill Mauldin during WWII.
Hey, my Dad was a Master Chief, too. Torpedoman. He claimed that he used to tell the girls that the torpedo on his sleeve meant he was a zeppelin pilot. 😄 He also had a gun just like that one on the wall behind you. I fired it many times, and didn't do too badly. Pretty good kick to it!
My favorite Broadside cartoon involved a Captain in whites...with some suspicious dark material on his uniform. The caption read: 2 things to always know on ship, location of the Captain, when to blow the CHT...
I got a chuckle out of the MOBOARD joke . I learned Maneuvering Board as an OSSN in late 1985 . That was on a Charles F. Adams class DDG . I learned DRT , and how to mark the scope face with a grease pencil for a ' close enough ' CPA . The OOD and JOOD used to compare their CPAs with the CPAs out of Combat . Their CPAs would usually vary with ours by a couple of degrees and a couple hundred yards. When it looked like theirs was off they would order a slight change of course . Cheaters .
I love the one where the Ensign is an LDO and someone tried to prank him. SO helpful to sport a couple of Good Conducts on your ribbon rack! Also Mustang LCDR; former AT2
After my time, but I did know many good people at Naval Postgraduate School in the meteorology department. As I worked for 12 years at NPS. 1992 to 2004
Captain Bacon (aka Jeff) has beautifully captured the essence of so many memorable moments in my Navy career. Through his gifts I can look back and see myself in so many different situations and can again feel my love of the Navy and life at sea. Thank you, sir!
Thank-you. I enjoyed that. Almost 42 years in the Army and I have to say, Jeff''s insight into service humour is universal.
The couple on the beach hit a big funny bone. Back in 1971, my cousin and his girlfriend were doing a year tour of Europe and Algeria, in their VW Westphalia camper. They found a lovely beach one evening, in Greece and decided to camp there. Nobody warned them that NATO was coming in for a pre-dawn similated invasion, the next morning. Needless to say they got the surprise and shocked of their your lives. Great cartoons.. Thanks
I loved this. Im glad to hear there is more coming. They always brought a smile! As a retired AF weather forecaster, we have a special fondness for our Navy counterparts. Three of my best friends are retired Navy weather Chiefs.
These Broadside cartoons sure bring back memories of the time that I spent serving in the Navy especially time onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Which Lincoln? The Submarine or Carrier? In my day the Lincoln was a Submarine!
I'm a retired enlisted weatherman (AGCS (SW)). Met Capt Bacon when he was the OA division on a carrier. Great guy.
He was the XO of my second command. Awesome leader!
Jeff's cartoons are wonderful. They are so spot-on, they always make me laugh.
Before I 86d my Facebook account, I made it a point to share Broadside cartoons on Navy birthday. It always gave me an opportunity to explain the finer points of naval life, and why the Navy isn't the Army or Air Force.
I'm old school Navy .... 1969-1972 ... Amphibious sailor .... 'A gang' ..... I was told by an officer I met at my workplace "I was in the good Navy ... before women came aboard ships!" So some time before Broadside. The cartoon about the 'locked suggestion box' had me rolling on the floor .... though I can't place ever seeing a suggestion box on my ship. The color of the uniforms in the cartoons, threw me off. Back when I was sailing the Pacific ... officers and chief's wore khaki's ... and enlisted wore bell bottom dungaree blue trousers, and a lighter shade of blue dungaree shirts with white caps
Same here, 1964 to 1970.
Two things I looked forward to each week while I was in the Navy. Jeff Bacon's Broadside cartoons and the Naval Safety Center's Friday Funnies.
Thank you, Master Chief, for the video. Always enjoyed Broadside.
Fair winds and following seas to all.
These are golden! Never saw "Broadside," so this is my introduction. Laughed at nearly all of them, but genuinely laughed out loud at "Bos'uns Whistle!"
Thanks Chief. Lots of laughs. Was a GMG3, tin can sailor 1966-70.
Hey MC, he poked fun at us "Coasties" once in awhile too!! Thanks for the memories!! MKC, USCG, RET
I was scratching my head till you told me the date of the first cartoon. I was in and out before he drew his first cartoon. I was bought here by the signalman which doesn't exist anymore. SM2 78'-82' USS Independence, which doesn't exist anymore. Went to bootcamp and A school in Orlando Naval Base, which doesn't exist anymore. I have no Alma Mater.
A great video. I can’t tell you how many times I laughed. Wonderful memories.
HooAh!!! Navy Brother!!!
or I guess you say " Bravo Zulu ". Remember seeing these in my 24 years in active Army. Well Done and thank you for sharing with us☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Thank You Master Chief... for sharing this, I howled this Sunday morning.
my father was a 30 year Master Chief Hospital Corpsman E9. 1944 to 1975. now he and my mother are interred at Arlington Cemetery. he lived and breathed Navy. would have laughed like crazy at these cartoons.
Jeff's a friend of mine from Navy days. One always had to be careful when around Jeff, never knew who or what would inspire cartoon.
MC thanx. Brought back a ton of memories.
I'm sorry I missed Jeff Bacon, he was after my time. But the humor is timeless.
Career Army, 26 years, and I can relate to nearly all of these....but then, I guess all branches can, right? LOL!
Each one, is right up there with our own "Private Murphy's Law" in Army Times.
I recall the Army producing the Operation and Maintenance manuals done in cartoon style. You'd find them in every shop. Very informative and entertaining. Drawn by Will Eisner. My Father was Army. This We'll Defend
Fair winds and following seas.
@@GySgt_USMC_Ret. The good 'ol PS Magazine. Eisner was a God when it came to relating, in sketches, the plight of Army mechanics. Not to mention, the wholly worthy worship of the female form he was so adept at recreating for the lonely GI stuck in Korea, or the bowels of Germany!
@@SLO-Ride Well said.
Best
USN from 1960-1980, all before my time and totally appropriate for the USN for the past 1000 years!!
This is great humor, it crosses for all services. Classic!! Hope he keeps going strong!
Mr Bacon’s first sea duty was as the AS Division officer aboard the USS Cook. I was a second class PO in his division. I have nothing but good memories of him. I didn’t find out about the cartoons until a few years ago.
👍🏼 My current profession has a lot of ex military! Navy, Marines, Army, and Air Force! It makes it sooo easy to get things done! If anything, the Military taught teamwork!!!
As a GMG on a AO I was the guy with the shot line gun, Every time I would get ready to fire the call would come up "Get the guy in the khaki" or "Beer for the guy in the white helmet" It was so funny.
We were pulling alongside an LSD for an unrep, and there was a Marine on deck not paying any attention to anything. So the first GMC said to the the second GMC, "I bet you can't hit that asshole." The second one just gave him a look - challenge accepted. The shot literally missed the marine by only a foot. He went down on all fours scrambling frantically for cover. It was great.
I was on a CG during an UNREP . A new deckape decided that he wanted to see the shotline come over . The took the hit on his kapok and fell on his ass and everyone laughed .
I was also a GMG on a AOE. During one unrep I put my shot right on target. The guy next to me decided to shoot a little high; he put his shot right through the open port bridge wing door, through the bridge, and out the starboard bridge wing door. What a shot!
Lol
I served under Jeff on his first ship. He was my DO. In the cruisebook for the second WESTPAC we were on, Jeff drew caricatures of all the officers. The XO got hit in the face by a shot line during an Unrep somewhere Arabian Sea. Luckily, he wasn't seriously hurt. For the cruise book Jeff drew him as a pirate with an eyepatch. Classic
Great stuff, Master Chief!
I especially remember the "How aviators view surface warfare" strip from my time as an F-14 RIO.
I never served, but I wasn’t to thank all of you who have served. All the millions of US patriots in arms who made it possible for Jeff to crack me up this evening.
My dad was navy. He'd have loved this. I havent laughed so much in years. Thanks
My dad was a CPO and retired after 24 years. He spent two years in the Marine Corps during WWII then when he couldn’t find a job he joined the Navy Reserves in Spokane. They didn’t give him a uniform so at the first muster he wore his Marine winter greens. When the Captain was inspecting the group of white hats he stopped in front of my dad and asked “”What the hell are you doing here Marine?” Without missing a beat he replied “Missionary duty sir.” The entire group cracked up laughing. The Captain just shook his head and walked on. We traveled all over the world. He was the Navy personnel on Kwajalein when it it handed over to the Army, NAS Atsugi, NAS Olathe Kansas, NAS Glynco Georgia, GITMO then finally NAS Sand Point Seattle, WA. My dad died last week and the last cartoon in this video made my eyes a bit wet.
thanks for posting this. I always enjoyed his cartoons and never knew who he was.
Funniest personal experience I had (while searching for retirement from the Marine Corps for many years) was the time I encountered a BM at Pearl Harbor...I asked what he did (job duties), and he smoothly replied, 'I run the ship...everything on the ship...Skipper turns to me first, in fact'...a CPO, meanwhile was standing right behind him...but the screaming was obvious, as I walked away...it was NOT a correct answer...
Broadside was also the name of a sitcom which was a follow-on to McHale's Navy in the early 1960s. We had "Here's Jake" in Airman magazine.
I loved Broadside and I am a Army guy. Military humor crosses all services.
Same here.
@@jamessimms415 Same. Remember Cpl Kev in Stars and Stripes?
Terminal lance always funny as hell
I’m a jarhead and if you can’t accept ball busting you have no business in the armed forces
I worked for Jeff when he was the XO at the fleet weather facility in San Diego. Great guy to work for and to know.
Two cartoons stand out to me that reminds me of my service. The one with the old guy saying "when I was your age....". I was a young (20) L/Cpl. I was hanging out by the company office when our Bn. Cmdr. and Sgt. Maj. stopped by and started to talk to me. The Lt. Col. asked me what year I was born. I said 1962. They looked at each other and laughed. They saw the look on my face so they answered my question I didn't ask. They said " we were already in the Corps then". I thought to myself damn they're old. They were probably 42 or so. I wish I was 42 again.
The 2nd one was the scout swimmers in the surf zone. We were in a hide in an "undisclosed location". My buddy Jim woke me up and pointed just a couple hundred yards away at a young couple going at it. They thought they were alone. Since then I never took it for granted that I was alone.
Telling a "true" war story one time I had a troop say, "Gee sarge, I wasn't even born yet".
Sometimes I thought the only reason to pick up a Navy Times was to see the Broadside cartoons. Hank Ketchem of "Dennis the Menace" fame did the Halfhitch cartoons. Most of them were motivational posters as I recall.
I don't think I have ever seen this man's cartoons. My time in the Navy ended in 1980. It is really a distinct pleasure to discover 'Cap'n' Bacon's talent for the many comical absurdities of Navy and service life. I was in the Weapons Division on an old oiler, and since we dis unrest around the clock, I had to develop some expertise with the shotline gun and so the cartoon about the shotline point scores did tickle me. Thanks, Master chief.
On my desk I had the Broadside of the "blame game" on the bridgewing for the gunfire that missed its target. It starts with the CO asking why they missed and as it goes through the chain of command with everyone having an excuse... the last excuse falls on the Supply Officer who didn't get the training manual on time.
Am a retired Supply Corps officer in charge of procurement for a government agency. I have that cartoon posted outside my office door!
@@vincenash2974 Ready for Sea....sound familiar?
It’s funny how I can put an instance to almost each of these cartoons from my time
This is a great selection of Broadsides. I'm sitting here watching your video while choking on my laughter while my wife is trying to tell me something serious about her mothers cooking. Thanks, EMCM(SS/SW/AW) R. McClure
What Boat did you qualify on?
@@webbtrekker534 Puffer
@@robertmcclure9674 652? I qualed Flasher 613
Master Chief this was a great compilation of Bacon. I to have enjoyed his humor but the Navy doesn't hold a corner of his cartoons. I'm a retired Coast Guard Senior Chief and the cartoons go for us as well. Especially since I was an ST and sailed l our large cutters and greyhounds as well as an ASW instructor. Thanks again and I'll be looking at your other posts.
Thanks for this video. SWO 87 to 09 ... I just sent a link to this video to some treasured shipmates from my first ship USS Knox.
I wasn't in the military, but would love to get a set of these.
As a former Canadian Sailor, I found the cartoons to be oddly appropriate too! BZ from the RCN (Really Cool Navy).
Thank you for your service Mr. Hacala ... my son just "turned the corner" towards his military retirement ... 15 years in ...
-After I left. We had Half Hitch in late 70's to early 80's. Jeff really nails it though. Thanks!
I totally forgot about Broadside. Thanks Master Chief and Captain Bacon!
I was in the Navy MCPO, the men's department of the Navy 🤣 sorry sir just showing love to my squid cousins.
I served on USS Semmes DDG 18, USS Cape Cod AD 43, USS Kinkaid DD 965, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41, and USS Wasp LHD 1.
This is great! I was in the Army, but I understand!!! As a suggestion, there is another very well done comic series titled Footrot Flats, about farmers in New Zealand.
I served two Viet Nam combat tours the year I joined and the next, 1968-1969 and honorably discharged in 1971.. That was before this cartoon I have never seen until now.
I spent my career really enjoying his art. It was always top notch.
At least the Signalman is forming the letter J by semaphore. Very few if any in the navy today can send or receive semaphore, the rate was discontinued in 1992 I believe. Old salt SM2.
Aye aye Master Chief! Great collection. I will have to look into the books. 11+ years Army. Sua Sponte.
This was after my time in, 1964 to 1970. I still have an All Hands Mag around here someplace. We did have some cartoons in those too but as to who did them I can't remember. Thanks and it is Sub ma REEN er!
Was a great part of my service. Thanks Jeff.
Seems Jeff Bacon was in during the time dad was in and retired just 4 years after dad. Dad too was a MCPO ( 1964-1971 retirement) and one of the things he qualified on just before becoming a MC was taking the USAF Aerographer course (yeah, yeah USAF v Navy training , taught him to stick his wetted finger up to see which way the wind was blowing ;-) ). He also took the USAF course on Hand, Shoulder, and Base Defense Weapons ( including M2MG and Claymores ). Now those two courses would seem not to tie in to what dad's specialty was ( CT ) but do when you look at where he was going in 1964. He was in route ( Brazil ) when he made MC and was headed to a ship based in Africa. The ship, the USNS Jose F. Valdez. Dad was in from 1946 till his retirement in 1971 when he retired at Homestead Air Force Base ( Navy Admin Building, the first one you came to on the AFB and best looking one :-) ) with his former CO ( late 1950s ) and good friend, Admiral G.P. March attending.
Congrats on your also being one of the one percenters.
Some of those were really great! I want to mention, though, that all those jokes about loogies in the coffee etc., well, it's a point of pride in food service that you never ever mess with anyone's food. No true food service person would do a thing like that and would narc out anyone who did because it's disgusting.
well you have never seen the look on some ones face that ordered a cold and clear and got a cup of vinegar over ice.
I could never do to someone else what I wouldn’t want to be done to me. Nothing makes me more angry than people who mess with other peoples food thinking it’s somehow funny. It isn’t. Respect.
Great walk down memory lane, thanks. I didn't think MCs retired, they just fade away, lol. Later brother.
I didn't see any of his cartoons when I was on active duty or in the Reserves (1965-69 active, 74-83 Reserves), but his humor reminds me a lot of Bill Mauldin from WW II.
Even though I was in the Navy pre-Bacon I could still relate to most all of these. I'd never heard of Broadside before, now I'm off to order the books!
1:07 I got a special kick out of this one. My dad was a GA pilot and once when I was really little he made a rather hard landing, then heard me from the back say, "Too much rudder, Daddy."
That was awesome Master Chief ... I always liked Jeff Brown's work. I did not know all about his career!
thanks I'll be sure my grandfather has heard of this. Navy WW2.
The first thing I would look for in the Navy Times was the Broadside cartoon. As a retired Supply Officer, my all time favorite cartoon was of the Disbursing Officer telling ghost stories about the surprise disbursing audit. So appropriate and funny when you can look back on it.
Thank God for the pause button!
The corpman trying to find the vein,that reallly happened to me at Balboa Naval Hospital. He tried 7 times! The doctor got in his first try.
HMC, had to put in a chit to miss a unit evolution, said due to chief's retirement ceremony. CO asked me to skip as I would be needed. I politely informed him that I was one of the seven chief's retiring that day. Had put in papers 3 months earlier and prepped the unit for the upcoming evolution. A real Rodney Dangerfield moment.
Great stuff M C--Capt. Bacon was after my time (1966--1972)..Is he any kin to Capt.Roger Bacon...Capt..on the USS FLASHER SSN--613 when I checked out...Truthfully he could fill a library with what was available in the BOATS..Thank you sir for the memories!!!!!!!
I met Capt Roger Bacon at a Flasher reunion. Plankowner!
Jeff Bacon was after my time. I was in when LCDR Melville C. Murray was drawing cartoons for All Hands. I met him when I was at Navy Astronautics Group, many years later. Thanks Master Chief. Jon, RM2, MSO-439
I love the cartoon with the bored CPOs.......hilarious.
Having spent my time as an AD, the one regarding the pilot really struck home!
My first intro to Broadside was at the naval hospital at the blood lab for my medical exam. It was the blood drawing cartoon. It was enlarged and prominently posted in the waiting room but the lab techs assigned names to the characters. Imagine how nervous I was when I got called up by THAT guy.
My dad was enlisted Navy too. '39-'59 Wounded at Pearl Harbor. He passed before I could ask any important questions. Me? 25 years Army, still am. LOVED the MC Retires... Now we can't use *!#@! Oh how far we have fallen!
...military humor is pretty much universal across all services...and civilian life...at least to this 71 year old Army vet of 2 years, 8 months & 26 days in Germany in the early 70s...
Loved the one on Pork Chop GQ!
Props from an Army aviator ( ret )
Most are similar to any branch of service with just a few background changes. :)
Always loved the one's about my seabees.
Made my day.
It's been 20 years since I left but I remember these appearing in our ship newsletter while out to sea.
The MC2 became MC3 hit close to home. I'm a former PH2 and I worked for TWO Admirals.
Wonderful video.
bubblehead is a bubbledhead no matter what they want to be called. said this old skivvy waver. (70 y.o. and still know my semaphore and flags)
"...submarines once, submarines twice,..."
LOVE the channel
Lol! I love the disclaimer. Don't rock the boat!
the Army Times had something similar but even this old soldier loved broadside
Murphy's Law, by Ret MSg Mark Baker.
Each Service seems to have their own version - the two I'm familiar with from my time in the service are the Army's "Private Murphy's Law" by Master Sergeant (Retired) Mark Baker, and the Marine's "Terminal Lance" by Lance Corporal Maximilian Uriarte... The artist of the last one is still drawing: terminallance.com/ ... and it's apparently a tradition dating back to "Willie and Joe" by Staff-Sergeant Bill Mauldin during WWII.
Many of these had me splitting a gut😂🤣😅
I thought the Sea Chest was where salt water lines take suction from the sea?
Love the Navy, glad I was in the USAF.
Hey, my Dad was a Master Chief, too. Torpedoman. He claimed that he used to tell the girls that the torpedo on his sleeve meant he was a zeppelin pilot. 😄 He also had a gun just like that one on the wall behind you. I fired it many times, and didn't do too badly. Pretty good kick to it!
My favorite Broadside cartoon involved a Captain in whites...with some suspicious dark material on his uniform. The caption read: 2 things to always know on ship, location of the Captain, when to blow the CHT...
Thanks, Master Chief. I had no idea that I had preceded Jeff Bacon in getting my commission at UNM five years before he did.
I got a chuckle out of the MOBOARD joke . I learned Maneuvering Board as an OSSN in late 1985 . That was on a Charles F. Adams class DDG . I learned DRT , and how to mark the scope face with a grease pencil for a ' close enough ' CPA . The OOD and JOOD used to compare their CPAs with the CPAs out of Combat . Their CPAs would usually vary with ours by a couple of degrees and a couple hundred yards. When it looked like theirs was off they would order a slight change of course . Cheaters .
10:42 Mustang LCDR (N2) here, and I approve of this message.
Thanks Master Chief!
I love the one where the Ensign is an LDO and someone tried to prank him. SO helpful to sport a couple of Good Conducts on your ribbon rack!
Also Mustang LCDR; former AT2
@@candacekelly566 Big Thumbs-up! Thank YOU for your service
13:15 ... the difference between a Seaman Apprentice and an Ensign? The SA has been promoted once.
After my time, but I did know many good people at Naval Postgraduate School in the meteorology department. As I worked for 12 years at NPS. 1992 to 2004
The scary part, is that I can remember instances of every one of these.
"The First Day of MM 'A' School" was probably posted on every snipe bulletin board from Diego Garcia to Djibouti.