05-02-2019, 01:13 AM
(05-01-2019, 02:37 PM)northernblue link Wrote:A mate was telling me that he was in similar studies and his superior kept telling him how well he was doing, one day he asked where he would end up if he kept doing well.
The answer was that he would be rewarded with a code breaking job in a bunker with no windows... he flunked his next test and transferred... ????
) ) he dodged a bullet! Once I qualified (got my ranking) I soon found myself as the comms guy (yep, only 1) on H.M.A.S. Bombard, in a one man tiny steel walled office that was located at the 'pointy end' of the patrol boat below the water line - on one side just 1/4" of steel separated my office from the oggin (sea). In rough seas... sending and receiving morse with my right hand, holding the spew bucket with my left. I could describe to you what the lining of your stomach looks like swirling around in a bucket of regurgitated Navy food... but it's close to lunch time. 
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17