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Real Early US Navy photo's from my Grandfather
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05-05-2015 10:19 AM
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Any Navy vet's or Marines vets shell back's I became one on the USS Proteus AS-19 on December 23,1981 a few days before Christmas a lot of those far away from home but they got it worse in the old days. This is a initiation when you go across the equator your a wog before a shell back after. A photo's when my Grandfather went across it look at what looks like a cricket bat guess what that was used for ouch. They used what was called a shillelagh on us a cut piece of fire hose with duck tape at one end for a handle to whack us that bat looks brutal. This initiation is probably watered down today due to women on ships and no more hazing and I guess this was a form of hazing but it was something you never forgot and made you forget about the boredom at long periods at sea sad to see it gone or watered down.
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The summons notice what ship it is from she was at Pearl Harbor during the attack.
Last edited by river rat; 05-05-2015 at 11:20 AM.
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Great post.Like those early aviation photos!
Thanks!
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A few more
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Very nice - thank you!
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