"THE BLUEJACKET'S MANUAL" 1942 U.S. NAVY RECRUITING FILM NAVY SHIPS & AIRCRAFT 21674

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This 1942 film edition of the The Bluejacket’s Manual is “designed to familiarize the student with the general characteristics of U.S. Navy ships” and shows several examples of each classification. Individual vessels that can be identified in the film include PT-9, PT-11, PT-13, PT-10, PT-18, USS Fanning (DD-385), USS McDougal (DD-358), USS Phelps (DD-360), USS Porter (DD-356), submarine S-45 (one of the S-42 class boats), and submarine N-2 (SS-54). The film opens with a panoramic shot of a U.S. Navy fleet just off the coast of what may be a Caribbean island (00:40). Officers stand on deck of a ship (02:00). An anchor is hoisted up. A plane is lowered onto the deck of a ship via crane. A naval submarine cruises along the surface of the ocean (02:53). The film shows men loading a torpedo onto a submarine (03:25). An auxiliary ship is docked and men load supplies onto it (04:10). Hoses pump oil into a tanker (04:50). A sea bomber comes in for a landing in front of a cruiser (05:02). A crane hoists a PBY Catalina patrol bomber above the water. The film shows a minesweeper, a net tender, a Coast Guard cutter, and a PT boat (05:50). Footage shows the fleet sailing at sea. A U.S. Navy battleship sails (06:12); the film then uses an illustration of the ship to show the various levels, decks, and weapons of the vessel. Next is a cruiser (07:25), and an illustration of the ship shows viewers its hanger and batteries. A cruiser sails past battleships as it patrols the perimeter of the fleet (08:33). There is a good shot of a cruiser’s artillery guns (09:01). The film then shows a destroyer (09:13), using an illustration to show its torpedo tubes, guns, and depth charges. A destroyer cruises out ahead of the fleet. The film then shows the layout of an aircraft carrier (10:44). A carrier sits alone at sea; footage shows four carriers sailing together. A submarine surfaces (11:53); an illustration gives the layout of the submarine. Several submarines cruise along the surface. A ship passes through a lock (12:45). The film then shows a battleship (13:10) and an aircraft carrier as they pass through the Panama Canal. At sea and off in the distance, a ship signals a call to battle to a carrier (15:03). Squadrons of Grumman F4F Wildcats and Douglas SBD Dauntlesses take off from a carrier deck. A repair ship follows behind several destroyers (15:53); cruisers and air craft carriers follow behind. A seaplane takes off from a cruiser (16:46). The film shows more shots of the various ships at sea and their respective guns moving on deck, concluding the film.
The Bluejacket's Manual is the basic handbook for United States Navy personnel. First issued in 1902 to teach new recruits about naval procedures and life and offer a reference for active sailors, it has become the "bible" for Navy personnel, providing information about a wide range of Navy topics.
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[@Miatacrosser]

Found an old Blue Jacket Manual at thrift store...1936. Bought it for a dollar. Got home and started thumbing through it and found a 1935 $1 silver certificate note.

[@Ryan-zp2bc]

grats on the one dollar

[@jhonyermo]

Worth ONE DOLLAR

[@rapman5363]

So you broke even 🤷‍♂️

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

It’s a silver certificate. Worth more than a dollar to collectors. I have a 5$ silver certificate that was worth about 40$ twenty years ago. Silver certificates have a blue tint and not a green tint.

[@smacman68]

In 1988 I was ships company on the USS Theodore Roosevelt. We had a "tiger cruise" where you could have two of your relatives, male only, join the ship at Ft. Lauderdale and sail for a 3 day cruise up the coast to Norfolk. I had my dad and grandfather, the latter was a Chief Corpsman in a PT squadron and aboard a destroyer during WW2. He lied about his age and joined when he was 16. He had made chief in 3 years, the youngest chief in the USN at that time. But having him aboard a modern ship with his unique vantage point that once everyone found out about his history, he was like a rock star. My own chiefs, division officer and shipmates all peppered him with constant questions. He would point out things that were the same and what was new. His "rack" was a net hammock that rolled up to make room for patients. But he was asking me if we still had liver and onions on Thursdays and "shit on a shingle" (chipped beef with gravy over toast) for breakfast. lol But that 3 day trip was one of the highlights of my 4 year hitch. And to share it with your own father and grandfather just hammered it into my memory. So good.

[@davidwise1302]

Retired Navy Chief, son of a Chief. I still have my father's 1944 Bluejacket's Manual. I learned Navy ranks from it (watching Hennesey on TV and so much thereafter -- within a few minutes of Star Trek:TNG, I had their insignia of rank down pat). I learned 24-hour time and have used it for more than half a century. Honor, Courage, Commitment.

[@flipflopsguy8868]

I have my dad's from his service on the USS Saint Paul CA-73 during the Korean was but he was just a Chief petty officer third class.

[@rapman5363]

That’s great, but my son learned 24 hour time at 5 years old.

[@jackmoorehead2036]

As an old HM 1, who so wanted to be part of the Big Blue Team in 1966. I never got the chance, I did 10 years in the FMF, the Small Green Machine.

[@drjanecox]

My husband is a retired Royal Navy officer - he’s addicted to these films!

[@billhuber2964]

So am I .

[@mindwis3]

Good thing Trump is here to return the good conservative talk, lol.

[@lloydwhite3198]

Rehab isn't necessary. Godspeed.

[@fishfire_2999]

Understandable .

[@ThommyofThenn]

​@@mindwis3you mean his lies and transparent manipulation of the religious?

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

Love how this was filmed before Pearl Harbour. The light grey is a dead giveaway.

[@boydgrandy5769]

That and the absurd assertion that battleships are the capital ships of the fleet. After Pearl, they finally understood how vulnerable battleships are to air attack. After Coral Sea, the carrier assumed its position as the primary Naval platform.

[@buddyseifert9507]

The aircraft are what gave it away for me.

[@billhuber2964]

I was a gator freighter sailor. Our mission " land the troops ! ".hooyah !!

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I was beginning to think they weren't going to show the North Carolina class at all but it finally made an appearance near the end. They also seemed to prefer showing Brooklyn class cruisers to any of the heavy cruiser types.

[@williamsanders5066]

US Navy retired! 1982-2003. Served on USS Semmes DDG 18, USS Cape Cod AD 43, USS Kinkaid DD 965, USS Whidbey Island LSD 41, USS Wasp LHD 1, COMUSNAVCENT Bahrain, FCTCLANT Dam Neck Operations Specialist A school Instructor twice, and Fleet Information Warfare Center Little Creek Amphibious Base VA.

[@howitzer8946]

SALUTE

[@williamsanders5066]

@@howitzer8946 Thank you ma'am.

[@mattbachardy4513]

My son was stationed on USS Whidbey Island LSD41.... I got to go on a Tiger Cruise, it is a fine ship! Was a great experience!

[@steveschulte8696]

This film appears to a film dedicated to the ship type section of the "Bluejackets Manual". This updated manual is still used in the 21st century recruit training. It give light coverage to the varying types of yard, patrol and auxiliary ship types, and doesn't cover the evolving amphibious types (it is only 1942).

[@nadanada5698]

Man i love these old training films ! ! ! !

[@bitsnpieces11]

Sometimes I think they could have taught you to be a nuclear engineer with these, actually they would have used them to train sailors to run their nuclear ships.

[@steven2212]

The old battle wagons...almost completely overwhelmed by the Carrier. Black shoe navy eclipsed by the Brown shoe navy. Still looking for the old stand off battles and blockades of traditional, outmoded forms of naval warfare made obsolete by advanced aircraft and the aircraft carrier. This movie was obsolete the day it was made. Still loved it.

[@carolineh.6457]

I still have mine from the early 70's, but my favorite one is from the 60's. The predecessor of our later ones was The Kedge Anchor. Thank you for this!

[@hadial-saadoon2114]

I have a copy of The Bluejackets Manual from 1940 as well as 1950. The changes in context after WWII are amazing.

[@markreeter6227]

"A gut-bustin' Navy war!" - Paul Eddington, USN

[@railroad9000]

In Harm's Way

[@johnt.4947]

One of my favorite films

[@johnrobinson3852]

I really like the heavy surf with the destroyers showing how fast and seaworthy they are

[@jamesbugbee6812]

Anything w/ a cagemast was sunk or wrecked at the time of this film's release, and were real good at shipping water when they were healthy, especially those top-heavy Porter DDs playing submarine. The slight stagger of the Brooklyn class stacks gives them a more streamlined non-toyboat look than I was used to seeing in fixed photos. There is nothing subtle about Lex and Sara; they are (beautiful) monsters, decks loaded or not. Thus they were magnet-assed for Japanese steel. This navy was my favorite, w/ beauty unmatched until Leahy DLGs came out in the early '60s, although Fletchers were forcefully handsome, but a new generation.

[@flipflopsguy8868]

I have my dad's from the fifties he served during the Korean war on the USS Saint Paul CA -73 !

[@johnnywalker7350]

Flipflops Guy I served aboard 1969 to -1971 after two deployments in Vietnam. We decommissioned the fighting Saint in Bremerton. My thoughts are with your dad.

[@keithlewis9106]

I have my dad's Blue Jacket Manual from WWII .

[@Sshooter444]

Bonhomme Richard was supposed to be CV-10 but renamed to Yorktown before commissioning

[@MarkGardner66Bonnie]

Great job sharing this video. You can take the man out of the Navy, but you can never take the Navy out of the man... AD-3 HC-1 DET3 1974-1978 USS Franklin D Roosevelt CVA-42.

[@slowpoke96Z28]

Been a Marine since 1996, never heard the actual words of Anchors aweigh until today...

[@eurekasevenwave2297]

Must've been an old school thing, I guess.

[@deirdre108]

Funny, but many civilians think the Navy Hymn is "In the Navy" by The Village People.

[@railroad9000]

I still have my copy of the manual from mid 1960's.

[@spikespa5208]

I have my great uncle's 1917 manual. Interesting reading from an era before aircraft carriers.

[@railroad9000]

@@spikespa5208 Definitely a big change!V

[@DavidSiebert]

They really loved the Battleships in 1942. To bad we had lost so many of them to aircraft carriers.

[@toddsterben6647]

After Pearl Harbor, what was sunk?

[@mikecimerian6913]

@@toddsterben6647 All but two were floated back thanks to navy divers at Pearl Harbor. I don't think that any battleship was sunk after. Cruisers, yes not BBs.

[@ronaldcsmith5688]

Awesome film God bless our veterans And thank you guys for posting this film. Best regards from a flat top sailor.cvn70

[@riff2072]

3:08 "... of little use." Fitting the commentator said that with the US Nany's torpedo's on the screen

[@vinnydaq13]

That narrator is the same guy who does the opening speech in “Casablanca” !

[@TexasJon1]

I had that same thought within the first 10 seconds of narration. His name is Lou Marcelle, and while he was an actor, he was primarily known for his narration voice: www.imdb.com/name/nm0545198/

[@allgood6760]

Salute and respect from NZ 👍🇳🇿

[@MrGchiasson]

As a 'navy brat' I used to read my dad's 'bluejacket manuals'. Imagine...1st grade..Gitmo Bay, Cuba navy base, 1961..I learned how to fold all my clothes to fit in a duffle bag. I wrinkled everything!. Mom was not happy...dad laughed so hard he turned blue.

The Saratoga was in there. If memory serves me right she was one of the first carriers, wooden deck built on a repurposed ship. Love the old films.

[@snakes3425]

Lexington and Saratoga were converted to carriers from battlecruisers that were under construction when the Washington Naval Treaty was signed

[@kenzeier2943]

The music was pretty good great Navy band and chorus

[@davidatovar]

7:27 My father was probably influenced by films like this during WWII and joined the Navy in 1950 and served during The Korean war on the USS ST PAUL 73 Baltimore class Heavy Cruiser as a BM-3 and he was By The Book.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

God bless your father for his service to our great nation!

[@JeffreyOrnstein]

Very good, thanks. Now swab that deck!

[@weepweep2225]

Simply amazing! Thank you for sharing! Can we get some more battleship and cruiser videos!! And TANKs!!!!!

[@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid]

It is really interesting to try to pick out the exact year in which each identified or identifiable ship is shown. All of those showing the ships in Haze Grey are pre-1940/41, when the USN began to put its Fleet into Camouflage Measures, from Ms. 1 to Ms. 12. But at about 3:00, they begin to show ships in Ms. 11 or 21, which would be from 1941 to 1942. I cannot see any 5” DP Mounts typical of the USN destroyers in these ships, so they are probably yard-tugs, or yard-supply ships, given their small size. At 3:22 we get one of the two USS Pensacola-class Treaty Cruisers in Measure 1 (Dark Grey, Sea Blue or Sapphire Blue hull, Ocean Greg superstructure to the fighting-top, and then white on the mast-tops). And at 7:25, we see one of the Brooklyn-class Light Cruisers (my favorite US Navy class of ship, possibly tied with the New Orleans-Class Heavy Cruisers. Both classes represent the penultimate Naval Surface Fighting Ship, and were those that were most called-upon in the Early-War to “carry the fight to the Enemy”) in Measure 11 or Measure 21. You can see Wartime Censors have painted the film-cells to obscure her hull-number, which also obscures her anchor. And at 16:55 they show one of my Favorite Battleships: USS Washington, in May/June of 1941, just after commissioning, but prior to the installation of her Gun Directors (the two Mk. 38 Directors/Gun Fire Control Systems for the 16”/45 Main Battery, which would be atop the forward and Rear Director Towers, and the four Mk. 37 Directors/Gun Fire Control Systems, fore/aft of the respective fore/after Main-Battery Director Towers, and Port/Starboard between the stacks to control the respective 5”/38 DP Twin-Mounts for the Secondary Battery), Radar (Mk. 3/FC Fire-Control Radar atop the Mk. 38 Directors, controlling/directing the Main Battery, and the Mk. 4/FD Fire Direction Radar atop the Mk. 37 Directors for the 5”/38 and Secondary Btty/AA Guns, as well as the SG and SK Search-Radar Sets. She was the first and last Modern Battleship to Sink a Modern Enemy Battleship in a Surface Battle, although USS South Dakota contributed to that effort, with Admiral Lee defeating the Japanese Battleship HIJMS Kirishima on the night/morning of Nov. 14 - 15, 1942. While WWII would see another Battleship v Battleship encounter and surface action in Oct of 1944, with the Battle of Surigao Straight, this Surface Action between Battleships was of older Dreadnaughts: WWI era Battleships that had not seen the same degree of Modernization as had the four IJN Kongō-class Fast Battleships (who, had the Japanese have time for, would have been even more modernized, with changes to the bow to lengthen it, and give the hulk a more “Bottlenose” shape, elimination of the Casemate 6” Secondary Batteries in favor of DP 5” or 4.1” mounts, such as those on the Akizuki-class Destroyers, or the Agano-class and Ōyodo-class Light Cruisers. These changes would have made them especially formidable with the massive upgrade in AA Battery).

[@u2mister17]

Thanks, my father was first crew of the Minneapolis CA36 New Orleans-Class Heavy Cruiser 1934. He was out of the Navy about 7 months when Pearl Harbor was hit. Re-upped and got her back. Not sure of a lot of details, he passed when I was 17, but did get some clues. He was North Atlantic battling Stukas and ice early in the war. Ended the war building the Navy base on Guam.

[@raybin6873]

Nice cool info.....thanks for posting! 🇺🇲

[@spikespa5208]

Found the glimpse of USS Porter DD356 interesting. Lost in the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942. Only ship of its class sunk in the war. Either a Japanese sub torpedo or a "friendly fire" torpedo from a ditching US torpedo bomber.

[@johnbattista9519]

Thanks for all that info.. My father served 42 to 45 on a destroyer escort DE36 USS Manlove in the Pacific . 5 battle stars.

[@codyking4848]

You need a girlfriend, dude. (It's a joke, thanks for the info)

[@Mike_LaFontaine75]

Battleships more important than carriers? Interesting!

[@eviper1054]

Look at those dud torpedoes getting put into the subs oh the mk 14

[@railroad9000]

I have mine from early 60's. Served on a MSO during Vietnam.

[@geraldmoore46]

First book I read as a child Navy has the best food

[@Mtlmshr]

Oh how the philosophy of the BlueWater Navy has changed! If you ain’t got carriers you ain’t nothing!

[@imapaine-diaz4451]

one notices in this 1942 film that the aircraft carrier is given short shrift as a capital ship. treated more as an auxiliary to the battlewagons and cruisers of the time. The film was probably filmed and produced in 1940 or 41 when naval doctrine still considered naval gunnery and the battleship to be the ultimate deciding factor in naval combat. All this changed on December 7, 1941 and after Midway. It was a brand new Navy, but the film was already made!

[@landtuna8061]

As an old Navy destroyer sailor I can tell you I never heard an aircraft carrier called a "covered wagon". They were universally called "flattops". And the Bon Homme Richard was called by it's formal French name "Bahn Home Reech Ard" or "Bonny Dick".

[@barrybuchert1345]

1977-78 The USS Enterprise was called a bird farm when I was on.

[@southernap]

The USS Langely, CV-1, was called "The Covered Wagon" after her conversion from a collier ship. Which is probably what the folks that made this film used as what to call all aircraft carriers.

[@HailRider]

This is true. My dad served on the CV-31 "Bonnie Dick" - Bon Homme Richard during Viet Nam ( also was on the Chikasaw and another one I forgot the name of) I recall seeing her pull into the harbor from Viet Nam when I was a kid to pick dad up for shore leave before his next deployment. Was quite a sight.

[@stephenbritton9297]

Interesting how this video still has the WW1 mentality of the supremacy of the battleship and the desire for a single, major, decisive fleet action.

[@lwilton]

It was filmed before the start of the war. Aircraft was still a fairly unproved weapon at the time.

[@bitsnpieces11]

The aircraft pretty much came into it's own during WWII. However, if we have another one, god hope not, something else may come in to power. Guided missile carriers sound like they could be it, no lives at danger.

[@slowpoke96Z28]

@@bitsnpieces11 at the end of the day, war requires blood spilled. It requires a man looking another man in the face and defeating him. Without that, it becomes a monetary contest, which is fruitless.

[@kevinbeattie7297]

If you listen to Dan Carlin’s Supernova in the East you’ll learn that the US was very much aware and preparing for a battle for the pacific with Japan since before World War One. With naval and air supremacy both heavily in mind. And don’t make the mistake of thinking our air supremacy to win the naval battle of the pacific was an accident. Although we’ll likely never fight in the ways of old standards. We are still very much currently in an arms race with China over the lesson that the pacific theatre taught. Air craft carriers with effective fighters are the only way.

[@bryansammis998]

But it was made at the time when the Navy could count its carriers with one hand, and still have fingers left over

[@archbuff6289]

While this video obviously shows on the Title Screen that it is from1942, most all of the ships shown are from the 1910's - 1930's. All the destroyers shown are are Mahan Class constructed in the 1930's, the submarines are from the 1910's, the Cruisers are mostly Northampton Class, constructed in the 1920's. Very fun video, but I wish they had shown Cleveland Class Cruisers, and Fletcher Class Destroyers!

[@stanleyhornbeck1625]

My dad joined the US Navy in 1942!

[@johnbattista9519]

So did my father.. served on DE36 from 43 to 45. I got all of his letters he wrote to his brother back home.

[@theoldar]

I have my father's 1948 Bluejacket's Manual on my bookshelf.

[@victormaxwell5264]

USS Reeves DLG-24..Did two West Pacs in Vietnam in the Tonkin Gulf..1970-1974...

[@101starting]

I'm getting sea sick just watching the video

[@user-qz7nu3mm9r]

very nice!

[@lestersabados1306]

Bi-planes were used in provincetown.

[@artkahn888]

God Bless AMERICA 🇺🇸🙏🏻

[@stevecusic]

My Grandfather was killed in the Navy in WW2

[@snakes3425]

I'm pretty sure the cutaway is Arizona

[@primarchechs7139]

"Covered Wagons"? I've never heard that appellation for a carrier before. Make mine "Flattop"!

[@Oymmit]

GOD Bless the crew of the USS Liberty.

[@martyspargur5281]

The difference between a Destroyer and a Battleship, and how they're named. Watch to the end for a super-duper treat!

[@KutWrite]

Great slice of history. Love the old-timey narrator with the generic "Mid-Atlantic" accent.

[@deirdre108]

Yes! I was thinking the same thing--very theatrical, as if he was reciting a Shakespeare soliloquy. At least it's better than the mumble, mouth full of marbles speech of today.

[@johnzeszutko5661]

All looks good and then came 7 December - the IJN pretty much chased everybody out of the Pacific - but even so ships like the USS Houston went down hard.

[@spikespa5208]

Out of the *western* Pacific.

[@Daledavispratt]

The IJN prepared for over 10 years for action and were overcome and beaten within 4 years.

[@anthonylowder6687]

Its interesting that they use pre Pearl Harbor footage of the battleships most of which were at the time this was made were under going repairs or being salvaged

[@misterruggles9736]

and a number were destroyed at pearl harbor

[@lwilton]

Despite the copyright this was obviously made completely before Perl Harbor. Notice that the narrator said something like "soon we will finally be able to battle against the Axis". At the time this was made, the US was not yet at war, but it was pretty obvious that it was coming soon.

[@chrismc410]

Nowadays, SSBNs/SSGNs are named after states. CVNs with the exception of ships like the Enterprise, named after prominent Americans/Naval Heroes. SSNs with the exception of the Virginia and Seawolf, named after cities

[@franciscodanconia45]

This makes me want to play World of Warships Blitz. My West Virginia is the scourge of the sea at level 7.

[@moose2577]

I'm a menace with my Akatsuki. Lol

[@franciscodanconia45]

Chris much respect. Just watch out for 8x16” HE sent with a Precise Aim radar precision. Destroyers tend to find it a game-shortener. Lol. Good luck!

[@mwbright]

Being in the Navy back then was like spending a year or more in a nasty, big city drunk tank.

[@taimeuppe6174]

i remember PT 109

[@model-man7802]

All of this footage is mid to late 1940 very early 42 in a couple of scenes it looks like in the first part.

[@johnsimms6778]

A lot of the music was in March tempo.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

They seem prepared. Let's see how it turns out.

[@nancyhobson9710]

All hands to the pumps, so to speak.

[@paladin0654]

Obvious released before the TF ring formation was used.

[@88mike42]

17:08...definitely not the breech end of a North Carolina class BB.

[@jhmcd2]

This is a 1942 recruiting film. Nothing personal, but wasn't there a draft in WWII? I don't think recruiting was an issue.

[@SmilingIbis]

You could wait for your number to come up in the draft or sign up. It's considered better to have more voluntary enlistees than draftees.

[@TitoTimTravels]

Lot of guys enlisted. Many lied about their age and went in early. My uncle was 16 when he enlisted. I think my dad was 18. Neither waited for the draft.

[@deirdre108]

Vietnam era for me but I think it was the same in WW2 where if you enlisted you got a chance to choose the "rate" (occupation) you wanted to "strike" (train) for. These are Navy terms in quotation marks, the other branches of service used different names. If you're drafted you usually don't have that much of a choice of occupation unless your civilian profession was in the medical field or engineering or something the military deems urgently needed. I think the Navy drafted during WW2 but if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me here.

[@calebreutener870]

That guy with the semophore flags is so fast. How the heck can anyone understand what he is saying

[@Daledavispratt]

Signalmen get really good at it. I used to watch them practice, and they practiced a lot.

[@allwaizeright9705]

I wish that PERISCOPE FILMS would move the TIME CODE WIndow..

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[@WootTootZoot]

People talked funny in 1942

[@LCMSM]

You need to move the counter and URL further down the screen rather than have it block part of these videos.

[@Rasheed9957]

21Gun Boat Club...

[@nonna_sof5889]

Anyone else feel sorry for the submariners when they were loading the Mark 14s? With how defective they were they'd have been better off loading BuOrd officers.

[@vinnydaq13]

Nonna_SoF Imagine how different history would be if the subs back then had Mk. 48 torpedos !

[@hoofie2002]

It's a scandal that it took so long to finally fix those torpedos. Commanders who said the damn things didn't detonate were accused of missing targets etc despite clear evidence of something being seriously wrong.

[@claudiofierro9919]

Navegue en uno de estos cruceros clase brooklyn en la armada de chile Cl brooklyn ..us Navy después Cl O'Higgins armada de chile

[@Sshooter444]

Here, take these torpedoes that won't work...

[@keyweststeve3509]

Don't slander the amazing MK14! There was always a 50/50 chance they might work!

[@PimpDaddyDisco]

Your mom "must have continuous care and service".

[@texaswunderkind]

With all of those massive battle wagons, they will be ready for anything!

[@donlove3741]

Got the 1972 BJM same day I got pea coat, foul weather jacket ,watch caps ,watch sweaters and chit book. Go Navy ! DDs forever! Too bad the naming convention is screwed up these Days! Warship named Gabby Gifford ! WTH is that ? SSN names all over the place cities, states ,people... Nuts. At least three DDs still honor USN / USMC Heros!

[@howardwayne3974]

That ain't all that's screwed up brother !!!!! The new commandant of the marine corps wants to take away the marines tanks and artillery and give them ship killing missiles !!!!????? Yeah , right ! He wants to make the marines a " littoral " what ever the hell that is combat force and take away a platoon from the traditional companystrenghth fighting element . he says its to fight "an island hopping campaign . what does he think this is world war two ? Even in that war we threw heavy artillery at 'em at khe.sah n in Vietnam artillery fired beehive rounds into attacking waved of north Vietnamese at point blank range to save the ass of many a jarhead. This is totally screwed.

[@billhuber2964]

@@howardwayne3974 yeah , that new commandant is what I call a Pentagon basement dweller. Has no idea what combat is all about.

[@rapman5363]

The saddest is the USS Harvey Milk ...it’s a damn shame 😥

[@colintuffs568]

Without british admiralty charts this navy would only be safe on the white House goldfish pond !!

[@johnmacdonald120]

I dont think this is 1942

[@garyhaber333]

I still have mine from 85 when I went thru boot at Great Mistakes.... Co410/85 036/86 17th Division