[Milsurplus] USS Stewart vandalized

[Bill Cromwell]

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 15:41 -0600, Ben Dover wrote:

> Well...   Remember that we're talking about TEXAS here; civil rights are a sort of 
> flexible thing, and subject to interpretation.  ;o)
> 
> What these punks did was the kind of crap I'd expoect from a drunken sailor coming
> back from liberty. OK...  if they wanna act like drunken sailors, then TREAT 'em like
> drunken sailors.
> 
> The judge of municipal court in place of Captain's Mast. I'm SURE that there are city
> jail or police department employees who are Navy vets who can act as Chief Master At 
> Arms for a caper like this.
> 
> A few weekends of really grungy work, combined with uniform inspections of their dungarees,
> some talk during break periods about what it MEANS to  serve on a naval vessel in time
> of war, and dealing with the boring routine of being a Prisoner At Large might do these 
> turkeys a lot of good.
> 
> I wouldn't exactly reccomend it as a recruiting tool tho...  ;o)
> 
> 
> 
> Mr. T.  W9LBB

Recruiters nowaday won't want these losers. I've worked with some kids
recently who are considering military careers and when I took them to
talk to the recruiters they were told right up front "finish school",
"keep your record *CLEAN*". 

By the way, the most cooperative recruiters are the Marine Corp
recruiters when it comes to talking to young people who are NOT of
enlistment age. Army recruiters talked them for five minutes and
everybody esle told me to bring 'em back when they're 18. The marines
let them come around to participate in 'military instruction' and PT
nights for recruits who are waiting for boot camp and talk to new
marines who have recently completed boot camp. How's THAT for PR?

I doubt those boys are gonna step very far out of line (grin).

73,

Bill  KU8H

PS - I'm Navy

PPS - served on one of the three remaining destroyer escorts from WWII -
the one that was transferred to South Viet Nam and then inherited by
North Viet Nam (now just Viet Nam)