This was funny - I was a 3x6 back in the late 80s early 90s - my first drill weekend after active duty was ‘go to this boat in RI on this day and bring your gear… don’t mess this up’ I got on the boat and we went out to sea for 4 days - hot racking it on a minesweeper as an OS. Never had a class, indoc, review, training… just show up and work. All this seems like a bit of an improvement haha My first weekend was a hot mess and every drill weekend after was a hot mess then I was shipped off to a minesweeper in the Gulf for Desert Storm for 2 weeks… that ended up being 3 months. I miss the Navy - in my time it was nightmare fuel and I loved every minute of it haha
This was funny - I was a 3x6 back in the late 80s early 90s - my first drill weekend after active duty was ‘go to this boat in RI on this day and bring your gear… don’t mess this up’
I got on the boat and we went out to sea for 4 days - hot racking it on a minesweeper as an OS.
Never had a class, indoc, review, training… just show up and work.
All this seems like a bit of an improvement haha
My first weekend was a hot mess and every drill weekend after was a hot mess then I was shipped off to a minesweeper in the Gulf for Desert Storm for 2 weeks… that ended up being 3 months.
I miss the Navy - in my time it was nightmare fuel and I loved every minute of it haha