You guys who served, who were the "characters" of your outfits?
We had the perfect, twin, spitting image of "Frank Burns" and in fact we even CALLED him "Frank" sometimes.
Now this guy was the lifer of lifers. Perfectly formed permanently curved index finger to hold that coffee cup
His claim to fame was "flying chips," AKA "Charlie chipped the sink."
Now at our little RADAR shop, the "day crew" was supposed to pick up, and the "duty" crew did cleanup, so if you left your coffee cup out, it might just disappear, and next morning, you'd be not so surprised to find it ..........such as in the freezer
So Charlie AKA "Frank" came in one morning and stewed and bitched, and finally found his cup in the freezer. He gets mad and threw it in the sink, a one-tub kitchen sink, and chipped the porcelain. (Broke the cup)
So for over a YEAR, you'd............
open the empty towel dispenser, "Charlie chipped the sink" inside on the back
empty a trash container, and "chips" on the bottom
put a chair upside on the desk to swab the "deck" and there'd be "sinking chips."
Somebody actually used grease pencil backwards on the inside of the overhead lamps in the TACAN building so when you entered and turned on the switch, the comments showed through.
BUT THE BEST was once, one of our two trucks was over for service, and we had a "loaner." Now Navy pickups have no license plates, so "we" took a brass stencil kit and officially emblazoned "flying chips" on the license plate mount.
We forgot this, until one afternoon, we went for supper and to change bed linen. Charlie, "Frank" decided to go, and he drove. Here we were, rolling up behind traffic at a stop sign and............yup..........there it was......after all those months. Didn't say a word, but the purple color of the veins on his forehead told the story!!!!!
We had the perfect, twin, spitting image of "Frank Burns" and in fact we even CALLED him "Frank" sometimes.
Now this guy was the lifer of lifers. Perfectly formed permanently curved index finger to hold that coffee cup
His claim to fame was "flying chips," AKA "Charlie chipped the sink."
Now at our little RADAR shop, the "day crew" was supposed to pick up, and the "duty" crew did cleanup, so if you left your coffee cup out, it might just disappear, and next morning, you'd be not so surprised to find it ..........such as in the freezer
So Charlie AKA "Frank" came in one morning and stewed and bitched, and finally found his cup in the freezer. He gets mad and threw it in the sink, a one-tub kitchen sink, and chipped the porcelain. (Broke the cup)
So for over a YEAR, you'd............
open the empty towel dispenser, "Charlie chipped the sink" inside on the back
empty a trash container, and "chips" on the bottom
put a chair upside on the desk to swab the "deck" and there'd be "sinking chips."
Somebody actually used grease pencil backwards on the inside of the overhead lamps in the TACAN building so when you entered and turned on the switch, the comments showed through.
BUT THE BEST was once, one of our two trucks was over for service, and we had a "loaner." Now Navy pickups have no license plates, so "we" took a brass stencil kit and officially emblazoned "flying chips" on the license plate mount.
We forgot this, until one afternoon, we went for supper and to change bed linen. Charlie, "Frank" decided to go, and he drove. Here we were, rolling up behind traffic at a stop sign and............yup..........there it was......after all those months. Didn't say a word, but the purple color of the veins on his forehead told the story!!!!!
