New Moderator (M1/M2 Carbine Forum)

[kikokat]

Congratulations Jim! Nice to have you onboard as a Moderator.
Just another swabbie, FT, USS Eldorado 1956 -1959.
John

[Stevo]

I'd like to thank Jim for taking on the job. Moderating on the web can be a thankless task sometimes, but it is certainly appreciated by the staff and members here.

[Tired Retired]

Jim, please have mercy on your fellow Navy shipmate. I won't drink the Kool-aid and I don't take the pills!

Badger, great choice!

[jimb16]

Thanks Jim. I've got enough to do being a mod on two other sites.....Actually there usually isn't that much. These guys are pretty well behaved....most of the time!

[gsimmons]

Hey, Jim are you going to cut us some slack because we're all shipmates? Or has all this sucking up been for naught?


ps: you know I'm just kidding

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

Thanks to all.

My desire is to try and be an asset. Nothing more.

That being said, there will be NO SKYLARKING, phoney calls to SICKBAY, GUNDECKING, or trips to the GEEDUNK. SCUTTLEBUTT is that could result in a CAPTAIN'S MAST and being KEELHAULED, ouch. Or be sent to find Charley Noble. My approach is a bit more laid back. I'd rather hang around doing SEA CHANTIES, being a BULLY BOY and wash it down MINDING OUR Ps AND Qs at the local watering hole. Now if that doesn't sound like a BOKOO BAMBOOZLE I've got a BUMBOAT to sell you landlocked somewhere. So those that came IN THROUGH THE HAWSEPIPE grab your DITTY BAGS and lets continue learning and sharing about a hobby we all like.

Darn, that sounded a lot like a Boatswainsmate, those white stripes were usually the Master at Arms guys. I was a red stripe and worked for a living as an Engineman. Now Gary being a green stripe, I don't know. As for shipmates, I was on a four man boat, only had three. Still see two of them.

Again, thanks guys.

[Tired Retired]

I just wanted to know if he was a SHELLBACK.....?????

[gsimmons]

Their were about 8 or so of us in the AO shop at NAS Miramar. Mostly the Vulcan M61A1 gun, AIM 9 blue tubes.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I just wanted to know if he was a SHELLBACK.....?????

Yes, I am.

Found this in my seabag. My first tour almost 44 years ago. On the ship that took us back to the P.I. for boat repairs. Still have nightmares of kissing the Royal Belly.