Glossary of Naval Terms
- Active Duty – A means used by some civilians to evade the draft, get a soft job, and get an associate member ship in the club.
- Army – what the incompetent asses join
- Ability – a peculiar quality obtainable only at a place called Annapolis (requires more than 90 days)
- Boat – a conveyance never missed when going on liberty
- Bomb – a Japanese product that whistles and booms, and otherwise amuses Navy personnel.
- Civilian – a member of the human race of slight importance
- Discipline – knowing how to say “yes sir” to the proper people
- Duty – a short period spent occasionally on board ship, at some Naval station – may last as many as 4 hours
- Evacuate – to burn everything you have so you won’t have to carry it along where you move – then to scatter out in such a way that the enemy can’t possibly find any opposition
- [F-bomb] – the only adjective in the vocabulary of the enlisted man
- General – not a Naval officer – but the kind of court that gives you what you deserve
- Head – not a part of the body but a place where the body is parked during working hours
- Labor Battalion – an indignity to which no line officer would ever submit his men
- Line officer – The real McCoy – the rest just kid themselves
- Men – the insignificant portion of the personnel consisting of those below warrant
- Marine Corps – an organization designed to keep the Navy out of trouble
- Naval Officer – a full member of the club
- Pay & Allowances – what makes this pleasant existence possible
- Reserve Officer – a presumptuous civilian who has to crash the party and has been staved off by giving him his associate membership in the club – must be put in his place daily
- Seniority – the official religion
- RHIP [?] – that which makes a Gentleman (made so by an act of Congress) & stripes & bars a privileged character wherever he might be
