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OK... what was some of the funniest shit you saw during wog day, either as a wog or a shellback?
When I crossed over the second time me and the rest of the shellbacks in the line shack stowed a case of eggs in the stack area in hangar bay 1. Three months later on the night before crossing we took them out to the catwalk and cracked them open in a bucket. We added in some sugar and bug juice mix. Smelled so bad one of the guys puked while stirring it. :laugh:
The next day we put a spoonful on the back of every wog neck we saw. I'm telling you, that was some foul smelling shit! The whole hangar bay smelled like rotten eggs.
Sister Zombie
04-24-03, 04:06 PM
I'm not a wog or a shellback, but somewhere in my wall unit I have a video that my husband made of his youngest brother crossing the equator the first time. At one point he's wearing pink bunny ears and puking and crawling through it. I even have it on tape when my brother-in-law got spanked because after he told the royal baby "I'm not going to kiss that fat ass chief" he bit the royal baby on the ankle. (It was the Constellation, not the Midway)
All I can say is, Eagle, the picture of you covered in lard after kissing the baby's belly was gross, but the thought of wrotten eggs mixed with bug juice and sugar is far worse. :cry:
gopsdragon
04-24-03, 04:19 PM
I'm still a wog no all fours through the rotted kitchen mess with puke:D ; no skinned knees from the non-skid:D ; no cherries in whip cream in the fat, lint-filled, senior chief belly :D ; and no certificate:cry: .
Originally posted by Sister Zombie
...All I can say is, Eagle, the picture of you covered in lard after kissing the baby's belly was gross, but the thought of wrotten eggs mixed with bug juice and sugar is far worse. :cry:
Sis... that ain't nuthin. Sitting in the coffin with three other guys covered with rotting food and puke from the 100's of guys before you.... that's bad..... and only one of many tortures to endure.
Originally posted by gopsdragon
..... no cherries in whip cream in the fat, lint-filled, senior chief belly :D
Lard and olives for us. http://bushwhacked.net/forum/images/smilies/smiley-kots.gif
; and no certificate:cry: .
Framed and hanging on the wall behind me. :)
Sister Zombie
04-24-03, 09:25 PM
Originally posted by eagle3
Sis... that ain't nuthin. Sitting in the coffin with three other guys covered with rotting food and puke from the 100's of guys before you.... that's bad..... and only one of many tortures to endure.
eeeeek! Don't I know it! Definitely a Navy thing. Hubby made 13 cruises and he just loves to talk about crossing the equator, or becoming a blue nose polar bear, or crossing the ditch.
When he was stationed at Great Lakes as a company commander, he used to teach fire fighting and cbr when he wasn't pushing boots. The day before the recruits went to the gas chamber to learn how to use their gas masks, he used to make bets with the other company commanders on how many whole thrown up fruit loops or cheerios they could count by the time the recruits left the gas chamber. "Honey, I counted three whole cheerios and two fruit loops today!" Probably something only someone in the military could truly appreciate.
this just for the Midway eh? well...i'm not a wog at least. geesh, I sound like a lifer.
gopsdragon
04-25-03, 12:20 PM
Originally posted by Sister Zombie
The day before the recruits went to the gas chamber to learn how to use their gas masks, he used to make bets with the other company commanders on how many whole thrown up fruit loops or cheerios they could count by the time the recruits left the gas chamber. "Honey, I counted three whole cheerios and two fruit loops today!" Probably something only someone in the military could truly appreciate.
Now that's the good boot camp story. (Hey I didn't know where else to put it.)
When we went into the chamber our CC kept telling us make sure you gotta a seal, make sure you gotta a seal. Punishment of course was a couple of minutes before you got the pleasure of spouting general orders in the gas you had to stand there.
Well, one of my good buddies didn't seal his mask right, which you felt bad because he was one of the clowns that kept us laughing. Company commander, assistant CC, the gas chamber guys are all behind the glass, what's the matter C******* didn't seal your mask yuk, yuk, yuk.
Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway) we spent some extra time in gas while everybody behind the glass was laughing at him. Of course we then are told to take off our mask. All right you guys know what's coming, General Order #11, nice and slow.
Suddenly the guys behind the glass start screaming "SHIT, SHIT. The fucking window is leaking!!" That old rickety gas chamber in San Diego had finally sprung a leak and all the guys laughing were now feeling what we were feeling.
We were ordered to speed up our recitation and get out of the building. As I came down the ramp, there was C******* puking right next to my teared up and choking company commander. :-)
938, 938, seek, engage, destroy, raaah. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
dylumph
04-30-03, 06:00 AM
I often wonder if the "politically correct" assholes stopped "pink bellies" and "shellbacking". As I remember, pink bellies kept us in line.
Talked to a bud from 115 a few years ago and he said I should be glad I got out when I did. I guess any kind of hazing these days will get you in deep kimschee and Wog day has been watered down a lot. :what:
dylumph
04-30-03, 07:53 AM
I kinda figured that would happen. Pink bellies were very painful but if you fought back they would lax up a bit!
craig1427
05-03-03, 06:19 PM
It would have to be making two guys 69 in front of the tank and having the ship's XO seeing and telling you to move them along or bribing a guy to barf on another.
pinkbellies were pretty much gone by the time i left the line shack in '88. some snot nosed whinebag went and ratted us out to the x.o. i was night shift supervisor at the time and was ordered to to report anything similar that i saw to the d.o. so... when one was going down... i simply left the shack. i didn't see it. i know nothing....i know NOTHING!!!! :rolleyes:
:laugh: they were an everyday occurrence during my tour (81-84). We used to have all out pink belly brawls between the shooters and PC's. We always got our asses kicked, but it was purely a numbers deal.
I don't know if you guys were still doing it then but we also used to do cat shots and kob nobs. Cat shots were a sharp open hand slap of the back of the neck. Usually when you weren't expecting it. Kob nob was a similar slap to the forehead. Kob nobs all came about after an inport to Thailand. Some guys watched some monks walking down a street, slapping their foreheads droning, "koooob nooooob.... SLAP!"
When trainees made plane captain we used to tape the "VA-115 PC" stencil to their chest, spray paint it on and then pink belly the bejesus out of them. If the paint was gone the next day we did it again. :evil:
shotglass
06-22-03, 08:31 PM
I had wet down a towel and padded my ass with it for wog day. It took about 6.4 seconds before it was discovered, but the line moved fast enough that I managed to keep it in place the whole time. The shouts of "padded wog!" preceded me, and I took alot of ass whoopin' for it. The guys near me were quite thankful, as it took alot of the attention from them. :rolleyes:
I never got to cross as a shellback, that would have required me to re-enlist, and that was not going to happen. I had had enough of being one of Uncle Sam's Misguided Children by then. But it may have been worth it, just to cross one more time....:rolleyes:
Originally posted by shotglass
... I never got to cross as a shellback,
It is oh so much better the second time. :D I crossed both times during the same tour. As nice as the second time was, it wasn't worth a re-enlistment. :what:
I first crossed at the dateline, hence the "Golden Shellback" in the post a few replies back. Of course, with us nuke wogs, the festivities started well before the "official ceremony" did on the fantail. We were the only ones that showed up on the fantail that were already smelly, messy, etc. Seems all the other departments played by the rules. The official event was a vacation compared to what we encountered in the engine rooms, berthing, and reactor personnel spaces. The times I crossed as a shellback, I merely observed. Well, mostly. ;)
Originally posted by Freak
... the festivities started well before the "official ceremony"
Same here. We were rousted out of our racks at 0300. I didn't take the "dunk" until maybe 1600 - 1700. I was only on the flight deck for about 90 minutes, but being a special case I got the grand tour. :rolleyes:
The flight deck was cake compared to everything that went on below decks. :what:
All of us underwent racial profiling (hell, every kind of profiling really), heh. Since I am of Mexican decent, I had a bottle of hotsauce, jalepenos, and the like poured down the crack of my ass, while we were crawling around.
One guy was from Maine, he had rotten lobster from surf and turf night stuck in his clothes.
I'm just glad I wasn't from San Francisco. :worry:
USSMIDWAY151
06-27-03, 12:38 AM
:smokin: :fbomb:
OOOOHHH YEAH!!!!
I REMEMBER "TALKING TO DAVE" RIGHT BEFORE THE "BACKS"
CAME DOWN TO GET US "WOGS".
I'M A VF151 LINE SHACK "ROOFRAT", AND 115'S SODA'S WERE
BY FAR THE COLDEST FRIGGEN SODA'S ON THE LINE .
I LIKED GUZZLING THEM (AFTER MY BIRD (200) LAUNCHED ON A GO )DURING RESPOTTING AND BRAIN FROZE MYSELF TO RECOVER
TIME CAME AROUND. ANYWAYS...........................
SHOULD NOT HAVE "TALKED TO DAVE " BEFORE BEING INITIATED
INTO THE "ANCIENT ORDER OF THE DEEP" 'CAUSE THE @#&@!!
MADE MY @#&@!! +*%!@@ !!!!
WHEN I SMELLED MY NEWBORN GRANKID'S PUKE, IT WAS LIKE
AN LSD FLASHBACK......BACK......BACK..................... .................
TO THAT FRIGGIN' COFFIN!!!!!!!!
USSMIDWAY151
06-27-03, 12:50 AM
SHEESH,
I GOTTA QUIT DOIN' THAT!!..............HMMMMM........CRAP............ ...
OH I REMEMBER!!!! TALKIN' TO DAVE......YEAH !!!!!!!.....................
THAT WAS THE TICKET!!!:smokin: WHEW!!
BUDDA STICK STUCK ME TO THE CURB.......DAMN.....
THERE WASN'T ENOUGH "CLEAR EYES" IN THE SEVENTH FLEET TO KEEP THE RED OUT OF MINE!!!!!:thumbsup: :whip: :dance: :laugh: :Angel:
ktrout01
08-04-03, 11:21 AM
I really hate to sound like a lifer but Wog day, as we knew it is a thing of the past. My stepson went over on the USS Fort McHenry a couple years ago and said it wasn't even close to the pictures I have from the early 80's. I didn't even show him the below deck rites which we all know "never happened". I had the honor of swimming the bilge in 4 Main Engine to retrieve a wrench that a trusty loyal shell back kept dropping. The best thing ever was when the E-Div LCPO, EMCS Jon Roebuck, went over for his first time. The payback down the road was worth every minute of torture we gave him. I have a picture of him head first in a shitcan with us spraying shaving cream and hot sauce on him. That kind of behavior probably wouldn't fly today. Does anyone remember when ADM Brown's Chief of Staff went over ?
I've heard that from several shipmates that are still in. I wonder if youstill get abstainers that spend the day in foc'sole?
Most of the torture I went through and then administered to Wogs the second time I crossed was below decks. It was a relief at least for me to finally make that elevator trip to the flight deck even though it looked awfully forboding with all those shellbacks lining the deck edge with their Shilailee's. What do they beat wogs with now? Featherdusters? Bwhahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
shotglass
08-06-03, 09:57 PM
Too many lawsuits....."Oh Captain! My butt got spanked by a guy ....I'm callin' my Congressman!" Too damn many whiners who can't laugh at themselves for even a few minutes....that's where all the traditions go. :sad:
Dambuster_104
10-28-03, 10:41 AM
Originally posted by shotglass
Too many lawsuits....."Oh Captain! My butt got spanked by a guy ....I'm callin' my Congressman!" Too damn many whiners who can't laugh at themselves for even a few minutes....that's where all the traditions go. :sad:
I hear ya. Got out in 93 when they started letting Women onboard...Dont get me wrong I like women just not at sea.
I brought the Kitty Hawk around the horn to S.D. and coming from the Midway this was a huge change. No women on the Midway. The Kitty Hawk was coming out of the yards and was in worse shape than the Midway and she was decommed. I couldnt understand that. Everyone know her nickname was the Shitty Kitty. Anyhow, back to the Women thin we were going around the tip of south amerca so we crossed the Equator... We had some Waves onboard and I didnt treat them any different than the "real" sailors who were wogs. Some were very good about it, but most of the waves complained and the next time we crossed it was a whole different story. The Waves Screwed up yet another Navy Tradition.
dman012
10-30-03, 09:00 PM
Ahem...Excuse me, but doesn't anyone realise that the Navy stopped called female Naval personnel "Waves" in the mid-eighties? As I recall, the women got tired of all the jokes about "Join the Navy and ride the W.A.V.E.S.!", so BUPERS changed the acronym to the more socially acceptable Women in Naval Service (W.I.N.S.). However, being the resourceful, testosterone driven, scupper scum that we are, the new and improved joke went: "Used to be we joined the Navy to ride the WAVES, but nowadays we join the Navy to get blown by the W.I.N.S.!"
Bad Sailor! Bad! Bad!
foehammer03
04-16-04, 08:54 AM
I had a red dick made of tape strapped to my forehead. LOL
Midway was the last great warship of the last great WESTPAC. The Navy after that has been fowled.
Samurai Films
05-04-04, 10:42 AM
Eagle, Where did you get the certificate? I have my card but never got the certificate. Would be nice to get my hands on one. Appreciate the information.
Originally posted by Samurai Films
Eagle, Where did you get the certificate? I have my card but never got the certificate. Would be nice to get my hands on one. Appreciate the information.
Hey Samuri Films, welcome!
I still have the one they handed out on the ship, but if you need a replacement you can get them from the US Naval Insititute (http://www.usni.org). I got a Blue Noser cert for my Dad. If you send them your info, when you crossed and the CO of the ship, LAT/LONG of the crossing, they'll fill it out for you.
RigTheBarricade
05-04-04, 11:19 PM
Samurai Films,
Here is the addy for Tiffany Publishing. They are the ones who primarily do the printing for the certs.
http://www.tiffanypublishing.com/certificates.html
All you have to do is place the order through them. Just make sure that you have all of your crossing info.
For years, all I have had was my old card, but this year my wife got my cert for myself as well as another old Midway hand.
I know what you guys are saying about WOG Day being a thing of the past. Thanks to BUBBA and his re-working of the NAV, most of the tradition has been kicked to the curb in favor of political correctness. Hell, the Navy does'nt even have an ALERT-5 anymore. It's now an
Alert-7...
RigTheBarricade
05-04-04, 11:26 PM
BTW,
If there is an FC1 Thomas, (ex-OMBUDSMAN type) out there, (approx. 86-89, Mount 23 C.I.W.S.) who is still trying to determine the identity of the WOG ERADICATOR...
It is I, the humble servant of Neptunus Rex, who granted you your salvation.
:evil:
To this day I get a kick out of you finally caving in and not going to the focs'le.
You made my cruise shipmate.:)
Originally posted by RigTheBarricade
Samurai Films,
.... Hell, the Navy does'nt even have an ALERT-5 anymore. It's now an
Alert-7...
That's just unsat. They took the one thing in the Navy that actually did happen in a timely manner and did away with it. :confused:
Billntwrk
05-06-04, 10:35 AM
Folks, I have it on good authority that Alert 5 is alive and well, at least on the PACFLT side of the world.
ABE2 Michelle Brown is helping the flight deck restoration efort and say her old Carrier (The Lincoln) Maintained alert 5 posture when she was deplyed to the Gulf last year.
Guess this must be an Enterprise/LantFLT thing.
Samurai Films
05-10-04, 03:58 PM
Hey Rig,
Thanks for the information. Now the bad thing is I can't find my Shellback card. Do you remember the crossing information from 88' or where I can access such information? I remember Capt. Wilson was the C.O. but that is it. Please help.
RigTheBarricade
05-11-04, 08:54 AM
Samurai,
Give me a day or two to find mine and I'll send you the info for the '88 crossing. Most of my stuff is in moving boxes at the moment, but this is unpacking week, FINALLY!
Samurai Films
05-11-04, 11:57 AM
Samurai,
Give me a day or two to find mine and I'll send you the info for the '88 crossing. Most of my stuff is in moving boxes at the moment, but this is unpacking week, FINALLY!
Great. One question? Did we cross in 87' on our way to Sidney? If we did, than it was in 87'. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for helping me out.
RigTheBarricade
05-12-04, 08:34 AM
Samurai,
My bad man, it was '87. :(
25 May, 1987 at Latitude 00000 and Longitude 151* 59.1' E, Captain R.A. Wilson Commanding.
I hope that helps, let me know if you need anything else.
Samurai Films
05-12-04, 09:45 AM
Fantastic! Thanks a million Rigs, and Eagle3 for helping me out with the information. Just placed an order for my certificate. Gonna hang that bad boy up nicely. Thanks again shipmates.
Glad to hear it Samurai and no prob! Here's a link to my certificate (http://www.cv41.org/gallery/certs/shellbackcert?full=1) framed and hanging on my brag wall. :D
Samurai Films
05-12-04, 11:11 AM
That is sweet. Nice to see alot of us still have pride in our adventures and service time. Although I'm having a great time as a civilian, I still miss those Navy days.
Loki520
05-14-04, 05:45 AM
We just crossed the line last week here on the KITTY HAWK. And imagine the very worst thing that could happen, short of it going away, and multiply that by 10.
Yep, wog day was..... DC OLYMPICS. "Hey wog, go over there and patch that pipe.... Now go over here and do some hose handling. Good job, get in this tank, and no you don't have to put your head under. There ya go and here's your card!". They had group exercise in hangar bay 1 (and I mean actual calastinics, not the shit we went thru), and they were actually fucking dancing in HB2. Shellbacks were not allowed to put ANYTHING other than water on a wog. Those that did, and there were a couple of them, went directly to captain's mast the next day. A bunch of DC2's and HT2's and now PO3's. The entire AFFF shop was taken down for putting some mustard and ketchup on somebodies shirt.
It started at 0630. Ended at 1130. And as easy as it was, we had about 50 non-players in the foclse. I'm glad I retire in 10 months.
Loki
Shellback '87
VA-115
We just crossed the line last week here on the KITTY HAWK. And imagine the very worst thing that could happen, short of it going away, and multiply that by 10.
Yep, wog day was..... DC OLYMPICS. "Hey wog, go over there and patch that pipe........
:o
It started at 0630. Ended at 1130. And as easy as it was, we had about 50 non-players in the foclse. I'm glad I retire in 10 months.
I wish you were kidding, but I know better. :nolike:
No Royal Court? No talent show? No creamed corn stuck in your ear? Davey Jones is rolling over in his locker. :what:
Samurai Films
05-14-04, 09:10 AM
What a bunch of crock! Did they water it down that much? No face rub in the royal baby's hairy, greasy, nasty belly? No eggs down the ass crack with shells and all? No flog line? No knee scars from crawling on the non-skid of the hanger and flight deck for what seemed like forever? No salt water shower to wake you up at 4:30 am? No vomit-filled shute mixed with the worst of rotten foods left over to stand in the heat for the last two weeks prior to crossing? No damn way! And those things are just for starters?
Are we the last of the Mohicans? The last to fully experiance the true rites of passage? I can't believe that it has come down to this. :cry:
Billntwrk
05-14-04, 10:11 AM
Next time across, Have everyone join hands and sing rousing renditions od Cume Bye Ya, My Lord...
Billntwrk@yahoo.com
Loki520
05-14-04, 08:56 PM
We are definatly the last of our breed. Every wog day since mine in '87 has gotten less and less worthy of the name. Don't be joking about the dancing and joining hands. HB2 had the CHAPLAIN with a boom box and speakers. He'd play rousing marital music (or country, or something non-offensive), and the wogs would have to go thru a line-dance to get to the elevator. Fucking dancing on wog day. And if they didn't dance, they didn't get to the elevator. My fricking division officer would NOT stop dancing, just kept on and on. She had entirely too much fun.
You know the worse part? No matter what a wog did, you couldn't do anything to them. Wog revolts were happening and there is no way to put it down when you are limited to water and offering "suggestions" instead of the yelling, screaming and various "utensils of pain" we got.
I seen all this, and 30 minutes into it, used wog day as an excuse to get some more sleep. It's a crying shame, but it's the reality of today's Navy.
shotglass
05-14-04, 09:22 PM
Damn. Even Wog Day is gone. :cry: After the ass whoopin' we got for that, I guess now we'd be getting Purple Hearts for the same treatment.
How much more pussified will society get before it toughens back up? Shit, doesn't anyone play games the old way? (And I'm sure some of you out there got worse than I got in '87) Hell, I guess now if a squid (no offense intended) was whackin' a jarheads ass there'd be all kinds of write-ups. For us, you either did the whoopin' or got the whoopin'. Didn't matter what color either of you was wearing.
Well, at least they're not taking ballet lessons in boot camp. Yet...
They should take back every fucking Shellback certificate that they have given out in the last few years. What a bunch of panty wastes. I now have to change my signature because the question has been answered... the new sailors could NOT handle the old Midway. Thank God she was taken out of service. :cry:
Moved off topic posts to new Women in the Navy (http://bushwhacked.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7041) thread. Carry on.
dlmagoo
08-04-04, 03:43 PM
I was one of 30 women on my ship in '91 when we crossed the line. Being the only female PO3 in my division (BT) I was of course the Reveille Rooster, complete with bearing grease and feathers. I was humped on the flight deck by a 6'3 black man at 1am because I was lucky enough to have the midwatch. I had my face in a toilet bobbing for hotdogs and fish, licked hot mustard off the Wog Princess's toes, hunted for cherries in the Baby's belly under rancid egg salad with vinagar, I was even a Special Kid for several Shellbacks. We had 70 shellbacks and like 300 wogs. Six months later we did it again on another cruise, this time with like 300 shellbacks and 75 wogs. It wasn't pretty and took me about 3 days to get ALL the grease out of my hair, thanks to Selson Blue and hot water showers in the PIT. It's a great memory, especially seeing my MPA out there in all her glory during the wog dog fights (she lost, and STILL had to do the course), and our Ensign in the electricians division out searching for FLIPPER. I can't believe they are just practically GIVING it away now... it's so sad how things have gone.
Dee :shrug:
Now lickin' hot mustard off the wog princess's toes doesn't sound all that bad... in fact it sounds pretty hot if you ask me... unless she looked like Senior Chief Frahm! Then I think I would've thrown my ass over the side before I did that! :p
Welcome Dee!!!! Sounds like you had a pretty easy going and laid back wog day... just like my first one. ;) I was a real special case especially after throwing my wog breakfast over my shoulder and hitting some shellbacks. Oh that was some fun. :laugh: Now I would have paid good money to see you as the Reveille Rooster complete with feathers. Bwhahahahahahahaa!!! You know, the egg salad and vinegar didn't get to me nearly as much as the creamed corn, or was that vomit from the 400 wogs before me? :confused: The second time I crossed we had hidden a case of eggs in the stack area off hangar bay 1. Night before wog day we took the eggs, a shitload of bug juice packets, and 5lbs of sugar and mixed the whole concoction in the port catwalk. Smelled so bad one of the PC's puked while he was mixing it up. We put a teaspoon of this mess on the back of the neck on all our wogs. They literally stunk up hangar bay 2 so bad no one could stand the smell so they got to go to the head of the line to the roof. LMAO!!! Did you get to help blow out any padeyes? That was one of my favorites, but not nearly as good as getting a couple officers from the squadron humping one another on the hangar bay deck with one screaming "PASSING GAS!!!" and the other replying "RECEIVING GAS!!!!" Yea.... I'm sure wog days aren't nearly as much fun now. :cry:
[QUOTE=eagle3]Now lickin' hot mustard off the wog princess's toes doesn't sound all that bad... in fact it sounds pretty hot if you ask me... unless she looked like Senior Chief.
Hi Midway Fans :)
I was sitting here reading all the posts for previous related events of crossing the line. I got to admit that those were the days, when as a wog you by all intents were basically tarred and feathered when the ship crossed the line. I was a wog on that fateful day in September of 1971 on board a much younger Mobile Chernobyl, I and a friend went through the initiation with a head full of Moly-B in the hair and dry coffee grounds poured liberally on the crack of your butt. Not to mention the pouring of Mil-L-23699 over the rest of your body. He and I were introduced the royal baby, a 6’2” 300 pound bos’n mate, we tackled the son-of-a-bitch and knocked him on his ass. He was sitting on a folding chair and got his but caught between the back and the seat and left bright red marks on him we each went through the food shoot twice and took a dive into the swimming pool twice. The “water” in the swimming pool resembled greenish quick sand and not water. It was a concoction of what ever the royal cook wanted to put in. :evil:
Ahhhh The good old days!!
I stayed in and on my next cruise; Pay back was a M----F----er (well you know what I Mean). I gave it back as good as I got it. I made 7 cruises and each one seemed to get more sane as you could not use petroleum products any more. And even the shalailee’s
Seemed to get shorter so you could not hit people as hard as I got it in ’71. Shell back initiation must be pretty boring now. Maybe not even worth doing now. :shrug:
R.I.P Davy Jones.
Well Midway Fans, The USS Dennis the Stennis CVN-74 (other wise known around NAS North Island as Building 74) left last May for a 5 (yes 5) month “West Pac”. I heard through a number of sources, that the ships company crew was about 40% female. I definitely would like to watch the wog beauty contest on that cruise. I suppose though,
It too is not that much fun any more. :shrug:
:thumbsup:
If YOUR not having FUN; YOU'RE not doing it right!!!!!! :laugh:
NayVBrat
08-16-04, 01:59 AM
I remember looking through my dad's cruise ships of the Midway and Kittyhawk and seeing pages of b&w photos of the initation. This was long before the PC days.
Dad told me a story once where he was in charge of a chief's initation in Great Lakes. He told the guy to bring a small, edible pet with him. He brought a goldfish. He was afraid they were going to make him swallow it so he "practiced" on another goldfish before the initiation to make sure he could do it. :)
I am sure that he cleaned up his stories quite a bit before he told me. I just can't imagine. :worthy:
They should take back every fucking Shellback certificate that they have given out in the last few years. What a bunch of panty wastes. I now have to change my signature because the question has been answered... the new sailors could NOT handle the old Midway. Thank God she was taken out of service. :cry:
The habitabilty on the new ship is much nicer. The crew even has washers and dryers for personal use. I remember wog day, and it was a pain in the ass. I still don't like maraschino cherries. I had greasy funk on me for a week. Then I was sick for a month. :Poke:
I'm bringing back an old thread. I just found this tonight. This is how the SecNav described "Wogday" in '97....
Here's how SecNav [Secretary of the Navy] Instruction 1610.2, dated 1 Oct. 1997 spells out the policy concerning military functions which involve initiations or other similar ceremonies:
Military customs and traditions have long been an integral part of the Navy and Marine Corps. Although in the past some hazing has occurred in conjunction with ceremonies, initiations or rites of passage, these activities, if properly supervised, can be effective leadership tools to instill espirit de corps, unit cohesion and respect for an accomplishment of another Sailor or Marine. While most ceremonies commemorate the many selfless feats of bravery of our military men and women, they also commemorate significant events. These feats and events form the basis upon which our Core Values of Honor, Courage and Commitment were founded. Graduations, chiefs' initiations, "crossing the line" ceremonies, and others are only meant to celebrate and recognize the achievements of individual Sailors or Marines or those of entire units. Service members must be able to work together, building-up, encouraging, and supporting their shipmates. Hazing behavior that is degrading, embarrassing or injurious is unprofessional and illegal.
Commanders must be aware of all ceremonies and initiatives conducted within their organizations and take proactive steps to ensure that these activities do not violate this policy.
Hazing is defined as any conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or rank, without proper authority causes another military member or members, regardless of service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful. Soliciting or coercing another to perpetuate any such activity is also considered hazing. Hazing need not involve physical contact among or between military members; it can be verbal or psychological in nature. Actual or implied consent to acts of hazing does not eliminate the culpability of the perpetrator.
(And, I digress.... But, damn it, it was so much fun!!!)
Hazing can include, but is not limited to, the following: playing abusive or ridiculous tricks; threatening or offering violence or bodily harm to another; striking; branding; taping; tattooing; shaving; greasing; painting; requiring excessive physical exercise beyond what is required to meet standards; "pinning"; "tacking on"; "blood wings"; or forcing or requiring the consumption of food alcohol, drugs, or any other substance.
So, there you have it. You can no longer tease, tickle, touch, abuse, misuse, beat, batter, berate, belittle, acost, yell at or even look at any unworthy, slimey polly-wog. What has the world come to? :idiot:
I'm bringing back an old thread. I just found this tonight. This is how the SecNav described "Wogday" in '97....
Here's how SecNav [Secretary of the Navy] Instruction 1610.2, dated 1 Oct. 1997 spells out the policy concerning military functions which involve initiations or other similar ceremonies:
Military customs and traditions have long been an integral part of the Navy and Marine Corps. Although in the past some hazing has occurred in conjunction with ceremonies, initiations or rites of passage, these activities, if properly supervised, can be effective leadership tools to instill espirit de corps, unit cohesion and respect for an accomplishment of another Sailor or Marine. While most ceremonies commemorate the many selfless feats of bravery of our military men and women, they also commemorate significant events. These feats and events form the basis upon which our Core Values of Honor, Courage and Commitment were founded. Graduations, chiefs' initiations, "crossing the line" ceremonies, and others are only meant to celebrate and recognize the achievements of individual Sailors or Marines or those of entire units. Service members must be able to work together, building-up, encouraging, and supporting their shipmates. Hazing behavior that is degrading, embarrassing or injurious is unprofessional and illegal.
Commanders must be aware of all ceremonies and initiatives conducted within their organizations and take proactive steps to ensure that these activities do not violate this policy.
Hazing is defined as any conduct whereby a military member or members, regardless of service or rank, without proper authority causes another military member or members, regardless of service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful. Soliciting or coercing another to perpetuate any such activity is also considered hazing. Hazing need not involve physical contact among or between military members; it can be verbal or psychological in nature. Actual or implied consent to acts of hazing does not eliminate the culpability of the perpetrator.
(And, I digress.... But, damn it, it was so much fun!!!)
Hazing can include, but is not limited to, the following: playing abusive or ridiculous tricks; threatening or offering violence or bodily harm to another; striking; branding; taping; tattooing; shaving; greasing; painting; requiring excessive physical exercise beyond what is required to meet standards; "pinning"; "tacking on"; "blood wings"; or forcing or requiring the consumption of food alcohol, drugs, or any other substance.
So, there you have it. You can no longer tease, tickle, touch, abuse, misuse, beat, batter, berate, belittle, acost, yell at or even look at any unworthy, slimey polly-wog. What has the world come to? :idiot:
:eek:
Sure am glad all the rules wern't being enforced in 1971 when I went through it. :thumbsup: Of course, on 1972 I GOT REVENGE! :geek: :boooty: :Pirate2:
I went through WOG day in 1987 I believe but I need to check my card to be 100% sure. It was messy and maybe looking back a wee bit of hazing. I did it; played the game and moved on. I wasn't all ate up to beat peoples asses the next legal opportunity for wog day. I did 2 more on the Indy, they sucked. It got into this so-called degraded human worth thing! Really deep and really lame. I ain't gonna have some man treating me bad. You know some folk know how to screw up a wet dream. Do I agree with wog day? Not really but it was a way to release some stress and just get silly and make a mess. I don't agree with the Moly-B in the hair or in the cracks of asses or any mean shit. Just having fun and letting it pass. It wasn't about slavery or any other misfits ideas, it was history of crossing the line. I guess with women on board things may have been secured on that account, and I could see how that could get out of hand. But I came I saw and took notes.
Like many things in the Military these days tradition has taken a backseat to some liberial correctness which has no bearing on anything. They suck :thumbdown
Chaff Dog
09-26-05, 07:37 AM
I loved the whole thing. When I was a wog that first time, we knew we were going to get the crap kicked out of us, so we decided to attack the night before. A full fledged wog mutiny!! Oh, but we did pay the next day....
However, what I mostly remember is the talent show and beauty contest the night before. To this day, I do not think I have ever laughed harder than I did that night. It is amazing how much talent resides in the navy (and anywhere you find Americans, I guess).
When I won my aircrew wings, we had to chug a pitcher of beer, catch the wings in our teeth (they were at the bottome of the pitcher), and then they put the wings on our shirt (without backings) and everyone tacked those puppies on. Hurt like hell, but made them all the more valuable to me.
I guess if it does not hurt getting it, then it ain't worth getting!
CHAFF DOG
Bummer about current "WOG days". You just haven't lived until you've shoved peanut butter and hydrolic fluid up your Maint. Chiefs ass and made him dance with another man. :thumbsup:
Brings tears to my eyes when I think of that wonderful day! I so wish I had pictures of that.
Of course, I didn't get off much easier. Ah, those were the days!
Bummer about current "WOG days". You just haven't lived until you've shoved peanut butter and hydrolic fluid up your Maint. Chiefs ass and made him dance with another man. :thumbsup:
Brings tears to my eyes when I think of that wonderful day! I so wish I had pictures of that.
Of course, I didn't get off much easier. Ah, those were the days!
This evening November 29th 2005 I saw a documentary on the USS Ravishing Ronald CVN-76 trip around the tip of south America. In this documentary they showed 3-4 minutes of footage of the crossing the line ceremony. What a discusting crock of sh*t that was. Human boat races on the flight deck WTFO. I am veteran of shellback initiations in the early 1970's and I can say with lots of experience that what I saw in the documentary was exceedingly TAME by comparison. :Puking: :thumbdown
Kid of like that Neil Young Song----Keep on rockin in the free world, kindler gentler machine gun hand. Yeah well how do think it would go over with guys shoving moly b down the crack of the ass of a female sailor? That is what they have come to to keep tradition in words anyway. I believe they could have fun with out hazing the troops and females in general, although us sailors know they have some bulls out there that would make us guys not feel so macho, but seriously having fun and not going over board, all though as I recall we used to strip on the flight deck get hosed down by a fire hose and then go below decks and get cleaned up. guess that might be a issue on the boat.
So you are saying that guy was getting Simonized and all of the department heads and division officers and chiefs saw him come out after operation liquid paper? Wow not only was that a kodak moment for everyone involved but I bet you could have heard a pin drop! Well I guess those touchy feely eval marks went out the window after seeing the old man. One thing while I was in and believe me I worked with some hotties, I never visited the hen house, just because of the automatic turmoil it created! Glad I'm out.
smutman
12-02-05, 11:20 AM
So you are saying that guy was getting Simonized and all of the department heads and division officers and chiefs saw him come out after operation liquid paper? Wow not only was that a kodak moment for everyone involved but I bet you could have heard a pin drop! Well I guess those touchy feely eval marks went out the window after seeing the old man. One thing while I was in and believe me I worked with some hotties, I never visited the hen house, just because of the automatic turmoil it created! Glad I'm out.
Or could it be that you never "Visited the hen house"Because you were too busy"Dropping your soap in the shower"HA HA!!!!
P.S. :fbomb: Ojive
I was one of 30 women on my ship in '91 when we crossed the line. Being the only female PO3 in my division (BT) I was of course the Reveille Rooster, complete with bearing grease and feathers. I was humped on the flight deck by a 6'3 black man at 1am because I was lucky enough to have the midwatch. I had my face in a toilet bobbing for hotdogs and fish, licked hot mustard off the Wog Princess's toes, hunted for cherries in the Baby's belly under rancid egg salad with vinagar, I was even a Special Kid for several Shellbacks. We had 70 shellbacks and like 300 wogs. Six months later we did it again on another cruise, this time with like 300 shellbacks and 75 wogs. It wasn't pretty and took me about 3 days to get ALL the grease out of my hair, thanks to Selson Blue and hot water showers in the PIT. It's a great memory, especially seeing my MPA out there in all her glory during the wog dog fights (she lost, and STILL had to do the course), and our Ensign in the electricians division out searching for FLIPPER. I can't believe they are just practically GIVING it away now... it's so sad how things have gone.
Dee :shrug:
Sorry I missed your post earlier. But, I am happy to see that you honor and uphold the ways of the Shellback. Political Correctness has gotten in the way of all things good and right. Carry on Shipmate. :thumbsup:
Well, I'm glad I didn't see today's wog day. I would have been pretty damn tempted to send the half full anchor steam long neck that I would be holding in my hand right through the friggin television screen! Lots of stuff is messing up this world, women on war vessels is one of them. I had a buddy serving on the Stennis back during operation Anaconda. Chicks prego would have to be shipped off the vessel during the operation for maternaty leave which would cost money, man hours and time to train someone to take over her position/job. It's just a bunch of bullshit! Plus while the chicks were there on the job they had troubles doing what AO's do, hump ordnance. I had another buddy on a carrier that got popped messing with three chicks on his vessel. One minute he's in the Weapons Department fan room at roughly 0230 hours "adjusting" some of the stringent eval marks he had previously given to the three chicks who were at the same time working his cranial big time, the next minute he's standing tall in front of the old man explaining himself. Seemed "Big E" and the three chicks didn't hear the man over board called over the 1MC cause they were busy in the fan room. It really didn't look to good for the home team when after "E" and his three "storm troopers" undoged the fan room hatch and peered out through the opening into the WepsAdmin Office, all Weapons Department brass was glaring over at them, they were past 20 minutes into the man over board, not a hide nor hair of "E" and the three chicks, and when they came out of the fan room the chicks were all in sweats and "E's" pants were undone, Guess he didn't realize it from all of the excitement. Plus he had a clipboard with freshly altored evaluations in hand. That's a bit much to explain for anyone, let alone "Big E".
So Let this be a leason for you all! Like the Prince used to say back in the day when I was a bootcamp: "women of the world ain't nothing but trouble".
I suppose a young sexually active sailor now-a-days has to practice restraint and keep his pecker in his pants when in a fan room inspecting the deck and all possible pussy hairs that may be exposed and lying around on it. :shrug: I ask you Whats a horny young sailor to do with a ship full of wet pussys? Back in the day, when I was in, about all you could do was jack off, and that didn't hurt anyone. :thumbsup:
I watched a History Channel/ Discovery channel program on the Ravishing Ronald last week. I Almost made it through the whole thing and then "Wog Day" came up. I watched for about 3 minutes and changed the channel. I was wanting to throw anything and everything at my t.v. screen. Wog day Schmogday.... let's just hand them a certificate and get it over with. Okay... you crossed the line. Here you go. Oh, I'm sorry did that offend you? I'm sorry. Let's not be offensive to anyone out there that has a pulse. Let's be so condescending that even the lowest forms of life can be a "SHELLBACK". You want to stay in your bunk for the duration... okay, we'll give you a certificate too. You crossed the line, it doesn't matter. PLEASE, someone just shoot me. I can't take anymore of this Politically Correct bullshit! :fbomb:
Here is a Midway Wog Party in 1987 on the way down to Sydney Australia. Funny thing is this guy was from our department so it was really cool to go back in time. It may have not been the best Wog day, but its much better than this polically correct thing nowdays.
http://home.earthlink.net/~shanedog2004/Navy01.htm
Here is a Midway Wog Party in 1987 on the way down to Sydney Australia. Funny thing is this guy was from our department so it was really cool to go back in time. It may have not been the best Wog day, but its much better than this polically correct thing nowdays.
http://home.earthlink.net/~shanedog2004/Navy01.htm
Ojive, That is too cool! I was there for that one. As a Trusty Shellback! :thumbsup:
I watched a History Channel/ Discovery channel program on the Ravishing Ronald last week. I Almost made it through the whole thing and then "Wog Day" came up.
I hear ya Bodean. One of these days the PC rubberband is going to snap and when it does... whoa baby you all better stand the hell back.
Heck I can't remember all the details of wogday. I just remember a few guys and knew I served with them back in the day! I remember going to PI after I was cleansed and a few guys from our division and getting this little ho dress for our wog queen in G-1. He was from Laos so after they shaved him up and got him dressed up he was a real LBFM clone, I don't think he won, but it was funny nevertheless.:whip:
Hey wait a second here. :what: I remember going to Mombasa only once and that was in late December 1987, because we were in Mombasa for New Years. The next time the ship hit Mombasa was in October 1989, I had just flown off to the states. We did our wog day in 87 on our way to Sydney. I believe if someone has their cruise book this can be verified.
Hey wait a second here. :what: I remember going to Mombasa only once and that was in late December 1987, because we were in Mombasa for New Years. The next time the ship hit Mombasa was in October 1989, I had just flown off to the states. We did our wog day in 87 on our way to Sydney. I believe if someone has their cruise book this can be verified.
Okay, I just checked my copy of my personnel rcords and it states that I left the Midway on Jan 02, 1988. And, I know for a fact that I left from Mombasa,Kenya. So, that puts my last Wog day in 1987 on our way to Sydney.
I/we flew from Mombasa to Diego Garcia, stayed overnight and then flew to Clark AFB. The next day we flew to Atsugi.
I remeber Mombasa well because I had to take those damned horse pills for Malaria for several months after going there, and couldn't donate blood for 5 years. And to top it off.... my grandfather died in March of '88 while I was in TF-30 school in Va Beach. Right after I had transferred. Not to mention the tattoo on my right forearm that says U.S.S. Midway 1985-1987. :thumbsup:
Bo
AD3 John M. Stevens ASW/ATF/DCQ/CDI
VA- 115/U.S.S. Midway 1985- 1987
NAS Oceana AIMD powerplants/TF-30 CER 1988-1990
NAS Oceana Anti Terrorist Force/ Auxillary Security Force 1988-1990
Well, I just reviewed my original footage of that wog day in question. It's dated January 25, 1988. This was the wog day we had right before or right after our trip to Mombasa Kenya. So on that web site of the wog queens and all, the correct date was January 25, 1988.
You had to go across the line to get back. So, maybe that's the video you have. :thumbsup: :laugh:
Yeah the first wog day had the CMC going through it MC Eisen he got his ass beat, but not as bad as some of the guys did.
Okay, I just checked my copy of my personnel rcords and it states that I left the Midway on Jan 02, 1988. And, I know for a fact that I left from Mombasa,Kenya. So, that puts my last Wog day in 1987 on our way to Sydney.
I/we flew from Mombasa to Diego Garcia, stayed overnight and then flew to Clark AFB. The next day we flew to Atsugi.
I remeber Mombasa well because I had to take those damned horse pills for Malaria for several months after going there, and couldn't donate blood for 5 years. And to top it off.... my grandfather died in March of '88 while I was in TF-30 school in Va Beach. Right after I had transferred. Not to mention the tattoo on my right forearm that says U.S.S. Midway 1985-1987. :thumbsup:
Bo
AD3 John M. Stevens ASW/ATF/DCQ/CDI
VA- 115/U.S.S. Midway 1985- 1987
NAS Oceana AIMD powerplants/TF-30 CER 1988-1990
NAS Oceana Anti Terrorist Force/ Auxillary Security Force 1988-1990
Our shop was a hair forward of you all in bay one, AWSEP/ordnance yellow gear our nx super was Joe Bower and we had a huge soda mess while I was on the ship. I want too say easily every night we cleared 150~200 bucks and because Big Daddy Dean aka leather pants was robbing the mess everynight we were making up the difference on our sales. He never got caught stealing out right but he was always in the shop during all the ordnance moves and the till would be less after he left the shop at shift change.
I bought into the soda mess at 25 bucks a share and at the mid part of the cruise I cashed out and cleared over 500 large so it was a serious money maker.
Yeah Bodean, my good friend AO3 Raco from Sacramento was getting out of the Navy and like left in port Mombasa out of the blue and I found out after we pulled hook he flew back to the states.
Scott McKay
03-01-07, 08:25 AM
Greetings to all my fellow swabs. From what I have been reading here, is that WOG day has been really toned down. It's now going on 31 years since I left the Navy. Here is my question, its also from a couple of vets I work with. One, Air Force, the other Navy. Do they still perform all of the other initiations, ie-tacking on your crow, aircrew wings etc? And how about all the razzing we used to give the boots that came aboard. You know-get me a bucket of steam, 50 feet of water line etc. We were talking the other day about all of the shit we used to do, and was wondering is it still being done in todays Navy/Military. Thanks fellas, the San Miguel is on me.
Well they have toned down the hazing quite a bit and at some commands you can get in trouble for tacking a crow on or any other initiation. I don't know so much about wog days but my last ship the Independence that crossed the line was pretty lame.
The silly things like getting 100 feet of flight line and going to medical for a channel fever shot are still pretty much in full swing. But hazing is a no-no nowadays :nono:
Our shop was a hair forward of you all in bay one, AWSEP/ordnance yellow gear our nx super was Joe Bower and we had a huge soda mess while I was on the ship. I want too say easily every night we cleared 150~200 bucks and because Big Daddy Dean aka leather pants was robbing the mess everynight we were making up the difference on our sales. He never got caught stealing out right but he was always in the shop during all the ordnance moves and the till would be less after he left the shop at shift change.
I bought into the soda mess at 25 bucks a share and at the mid part of the cruise I cashed out and cleared over 500 large so it was a serious money maker.
Yeah Bodean, my good friend AO3 Raco from Sacramento was getting out of the Navy and like left in port Mombasa out of the blue and I found out after we pulled hook he flew back to the states.
There might have been a couple of dozen of us that left in Mombasa. I know that AD1 Chuck Moore, AD3 Brad Olsen, AMS3 Dan Meredith, AOAN Eddie Hobbs and myself, all of us from VA-115, left the ship there. Chuck left for shore duty in Subic Bay, Brad and Dan went to Whidbey Island, Eddie went home and I went to Va Beach, Va. We all had to stay at a hotel in Mombasa because the Air Force guys "accidentally" loaded the aircraft wrong and it couldn't take off. Jan. 03, 1988... we left Mombasa for Diego Garcia (a God-awful hole in the middle of nowhere.) We (except for Eddie) left D.G. the next morning for Clark AFB (via an Airforce milkrun...don't ask. It sucked). Stayed at Clark for the night (got drunk, got laid). Went directly to Atsugi the next day. We all did packouts and left at different times from there. Dan then Brad then me. Chuck had a wife and kids so his was longer. I was on packout for 10 days. I left Atsugi, U.S.S. Midway, and Va-115 on Jan. 15, 1988. 30 days leave later... I Reported for duty Nas Oceana VF-101 FRAMP Feb. 18, 1988.
By the way.... we all had to go to Yokosuka to check in after reporting to Atsugi. They wanted us to stay in the Yoko barracks because we were stationed there (technically, we were.) Only AD1 Moore saved our asses ( he argued with the OOD) and reported in to the OOD every day. All of our stuff was in Atsugi and we had to pack out, so they let us get rooms there.
I called Eddie Hobbs later in life and he said that life on the Rock sucked. They had him picking up coconuts on the beach for 6 days before they let him leave for Yoko. He is now back in Boston and doing well.
Damn!!!! All of that because of Wogday. memories.... memories... :beer: :thumbsup:
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