As a former active duty Navy petty officer,

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

I can assure my friends and colleagues that "tickle fights" were NOT part of the daily military routine. Oh sure, maybe the occasional belly kiss, but that was perfectly acceptable. You can take ANYthing out of context.

Pink Belly?
Is that what you are calling a Belly Kiss?

 

[jsharmon7]

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

Another former Petty Officer here, and I can say that, on the three boats I served on, any shipmate that would have tried tackling someone and tickling them in the way and to the extent that the former Congressman did would have to have been carried to MEDICAL for sickcall the following morning.

Crossing the line (equator) (Shell-back ceremony) has a whole different set of rules accompanying the process.

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

Another former Petty Officer here, and I can say that, on the three boats I served on, any shipmate that would have tried tackling someone and tickling them in the way and to the extent that the former Congressman did would have to have been carried to MEDICAL for sickcall the following morning.

Crossing the line (equator) (Shell-back ceremony) has a whole different set of rules accompanying the process.

I never got tickled.
I was very very bad and had a list of offenses pages long. I got to go though 3/4 of it twice.
I have to admit I did have more fun as a wog crossing the equator than I did as a shellback.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

Former Congressman Eric Massa was describing on a radio program and to Glenn Beck how, in his apartment, he tackled an aide and "tickled him to tears" or something similar, and then four other guys piled on top of them in one giant tickle fest. Mr. Massa is approximately 50 years old. He is a former Navy vet with 24 years of service. For Beck, he brought along a copy of his Cruise Book (think High School year book, but for a 6 month cruise to the Med or Western Pacific) showing the "crossing the line (equator) ceremony where a lot of hijinks and fun is had by experienced sailors at the expense of new sailors (think hazing in a frat).

 

[BloodEclipse]

+1 to Blue Tile Spook for the Shellback reference (belly kiss).

Ah that belly kiss. lol
Ok Gotcha.

 

[BloodEclipse]

I crossed the equator in 83 and 84.

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

+1 to Blue Tile Spook for the Shellback reference (belly kiss).

Lolz I hadn't thought of that ceremony for a long time and it sure brings back memories! A CTO3 Shellback that I was with took particular pride in beating the wogs.

I never got tickled.
I was very very bad and had a list of offenses pages long. I got to go though 3/4 of it twice.
I have to admit I did have more fun as a wog crossing the equator than I did as a shellback.

No, no tickling here, either. I out-processed shortly after our ceremony was had so I had little time as a Shellback compared to my previous four and a half years as a lowly WOG.

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

My ship was put under investigation for our first ceremony. That was when I was a wog. We were luring shellbacks into our shop and tying them up in our equipment room before midnight mass. LOL

 

[Blue Tile Spook]

My ship was put under investigation for our first ceremony. That was when I was a wog. We were luring shellbacks into our shop and tying them up in our equipment room before midnight mass. LOL

I rode three carriers. There wouldn't have been enough room in the hangar bays to tie all the Shellbacks up! lol

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

I was on a Fast Frigate
Much smaller crew.
Just over 300 I think.

 

[BloodEclipse]

Hope they didn't make you pay for that later on, I hope.

I got special treatment.

I made them make new shalieghlys(sp) though. Tossed a bunch overboard that day before midnight mass.
I told you I was bad.

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

FF-1066 Under a Mexican flag now.

 

[Shadowbeach]

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[BloodEclipse]

Intercepting all those illegal guns flowing out of the US, I suspect.

Without a doubt.