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Postcards from Deployment: Of Wogs and Shellbacks…

Crossing the Line. The boisterous ceremonies of “crossing the line” are ancient and their derivation is lost.  It is well known that ceremonies took place long ago when the ship crossed the thirtieth parallel, and also when going through the Straits of Gibraltar.  Early ceremonies were rough and to a great extent supposed to try…

Postcards from Deployment: Now Liberty Call – Asia (Eat Your Heart Out Skippy-san!)

Our deployed correspondent, AT1 Charles Berleman, checks in from the latest liberty port: SJS, Okay to start with I am currently in Malaysia, but last week I had a chance to visit the island of Phuket (pronounced Foo-Ket) in the Indian Ocean side of Thailand. An interesting place historically. It is one of the few…

Postcards from Deployment: Of Midpoints and Ground Hog Day(s)

Milestones.  We live our lives and measure our time while deployed by milestones.  Workups, CQ, “safe-to-deploy,” night qual’d – those are all milestones.  First day underway, first trap of deployment, last night the lights of home are visible on the far horizon. . .  We chop from one fleet to another in our transit; turnover…