Dear Sirs:
The following things torque me off about the Navy or irritate me to no end:
1. Mid watches
2. Weekend duty
3. The “new uniforms”
4. Anytime a 26-ship force decides to ping all night
5. Poor maintenance practices on naval vessels
6. Policy changes for no apparent reason
7. Pub changes
8. Paperwork
9. Long working hours
10. Family separation
11. Yard personnel who get paid more for doing less than our bluejackets
12. Government workers who are in jobs which could very well be given to naval personnel for shore duty
13. Technical Inspections
14. The low rate of pay per hour
15. The lack of benefits
16. The cutback of existing benefits
17. The lack of shore duty billets for enlisted men
18. RefTra
19. Waterhours
20. The “Old Navy”
21. The “New Navy”
22. The lack of realistic training
23. Monotony
24. Being in the yards
25. Recruiter’s “stories”
26. Tugs that beat up your sides
27. The supply system
28. Personnel who gripe too much 29- Personnel who gripe too little
30. Navy showers
31. The lack of clothing space on ships
32. The rising price of uniforms
33. That there are no WAVES at sea
34. The WAVES that want to go to sea
35. Seasickness
36. Any lack of toilet paper
37. Crummy tasting water
38. Navy name games (such as changing DLGs to CGs)
39. Spray from toilets underway
40. Goofy looking ball caps
41. Push-button Thirds
42. More regulations than are needed or can be enforced
43. Wasted money
44. Idiots that design our gear
45. Idiots that work on our gear
46. Gear that a three-year-old can break and nobody can fix
47. Naval politics
48. Gray paint
49. Brownnosers
50. CYA
51. Having to “KA&TN”
52. ACRONYMS
53. The Peter Principle at work
54. Navy trucks
55. Being in drydock
56. Detailers
57. Trying to understand BuPers
58. Poor uniform quality
59. Boot ensigns
60. Pushy JGs
61. Sweaty lieutenants
62. Gung ho lieutenant commanders
63. Forgetful commanders
64. Brass
65. Marine gate guards
66. Double standards
67. Broken Coke machines
68. Navy barbers
69. Bo’s’n’s pipes
70. Traditional sweats
71. Breakdowns of tradition
72. Resistance to change
73. Too much change
74. Enlisted personnel who look like skyhops
75. Officers who look like cab drivers
76. Sea details
77. Soft ice cream
78. UnReps
79. Anytime I have to “Hurry up and wait”
80. Lack of consistency
81. Poor planning
82. Any “lack of communications
83. Base police
84. Late watch reliefs
85. Standing chow reliefs
86. Reveille
87. Any “lack of coordination”
88. Reports
89. Radars that interfere with TV reception
90. Rust
91. Dirt
92. Ships’ laundries
93. Noise
94. Wet garbage
95. Mess cooking
96. The tendency of some to over' classify material
97. Seagull souvenirs on the decks
98. Haircuts
99. Weird priority setting policy
100. Green tile
101. People who are always happy
102. People who are always upset
103. Changing home ports
104. 40-man working parties
105. Reserved parking
106. No fleet parking near the piers
107. Flaps
108. OpTars and being broke before the end of the quarter
109. Missile hazards
110. Handling weapons
111. Lack of “good” liberty ports
112. Getting underway after enjoying a liberty port to its fullest extent
113. Heavy rolls
114. Green water over the bow
115. Old Salts”
116. “Young Salts”
117. Boots
118. Cold coffee
119. Records
120. Phones that don’t stop ringing
'But the thing that I hate the most is that I love it. (I feel better now.)