The old salts they knew. I went in nineteen and sixty three and left in nineteen and seventy-five. The new Navy was now someones else's.
Peacetime Navy is boring and too much protocol - it got boring or I would have stayed in and did my twenty. Too bad really miss the shipboard life.
Thanks Tam for the piece someone really had a hand on the rail when they wrote that.
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O Almighty Lord God, who neither slumberest nor sleepest; Protect and assist, we beseech thee, all those who at home or abroad, by land, by sea, or in the air, are serving this country, that they, being armed with thy defence, may be preserved evermore in all perils; and being filled with wisdom and girded with strength, may do their duty to thy honour and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
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