1. You
live on a boat
2.
The ocean is your backyard
3. Officers
4.
Enlistments are a minimum
of 8 years (oh yeah, did the recruiter forget to mention that
one?)
5. Zero
privacy
6.
You can find other people wearing
your underwear
7.
The food
sucks (if there wasn't a McDonald's on practically every Naval
base, many people would die)
8. You
clean toilets and everything else that doesn't move
9. If
you can't clean it, you paint it
10. You
wear bell-bottoms as a uniform (they're being phased out, though)
11.
There's always someone else's puke you have to clean up
12. The
guy that outranks you is usually a moron
13. The
people staying in the Navy are the ones who should be getting out, and
vice-versa
14.
The Navy is typically 20 to 60 years behind
in technology
15.
Hazing
is alive and well in the Navy
16.
The effects
of the Navy can be less-than agreeable
17.
Some less-than-stellar individuals get the opportunity to
enter the Navy in place of going to jail
18.
The US Navy is not quite as fun or "free spirited"
as other navies
19.
There is no such thing as a "comfortable
night's sleep" onboard a ship
20.
Upon each promotion in rank, an enlisted person does not
start receiving increased pay until typically 6
months pass after the advancement
21.
More to come...
