Monday, November 30, 2015

NAUTICAL TRASH TALK

Long ago a warship sailed the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the following signal closed up at the yardarm during MINEX-87 with eight other mine sweepers. We were out there for a week streaming and recovering various mine sweeping rigs. If anybody ever actually bothered to look it up, nobody ever said anything and nobody important ever asked about it. I suppose we were under-socialized back then. We're older now.

6 comments:

OldAFSarge said...

I'll just hoist Victor at this point.

Captain Steve said...

CODE MIKE VICTOR PAPA.

HMS Defiant said...

Yep. It's from HO102, The International Code of Signals.

HMS Defiant said...

You're not fooling anyone. :)

Captain Steve said...

Oh yes. We used to have lots of fun with the medical section too--when safely out of sight of Flag types.

OldAFSarge said...

Hahaha!