tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31558164.post4568074858121675738..comments2024-01-17T06:25:55.587-05:00Comments on The Old Coot: CoffeeRM1(SS) (ret)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13101367196599109034noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31558164.post-88038176732277650732007-12-15T21:36:00.000-05:002007-12-15T21:36:00.000-05:00"Old" is relative. 8)I enlisted when I was 27; tur..."Old" is relative. 8)<BR/><BR/>I enlisted when I was 27; turned 28 less than a month after I finished boot camp. During my five and a half years on <I>Prov</I> I served under three skippers, all three of whom were younger than I was. Before that I did almost three years at Squadron; the commodore was older than I was, though he was younger than my brother. And before that, I was on <I>Jax</I> - and that skipper was younger than I, too.<BR/><BR/>Now I'm working at a store, and one of the strangest things about it has been working with people who are older than I am. We had one WWII vet and one Korea vet when I started there. Both of them have retired now, but there are still a few guys who were in the Army or Air Force when I was still in the single-digit-age range.RM1(SS) (ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13101367196599109034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31558164.post-41771756505753764062007-12-15T16:25:00.000-05:002007-12-15T16:25:00.000-05:00A couple of things:It made me choke on my coffee w...A couple of things:<BR/><BR/>It made me choke on my coffee when I realized the guy who calls himself "The Old Coot" went to bootcamp <I>after</I> me!<BR/><BR/>And I was the poor sap always tasked with getting the Navigator his coffee when we were surfaced -- he liked how "Lief always brings me a <I>full</I> cup!" -- and I never did get caught refilling his coffee cup to the brim just before handing it up to him from inside the sail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31558164.post-86194818305620049982007-12-15T16:23:00.000-05:002007-12-15T16:23:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com