Marines in brawl
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You see this sort of thing all the time in Annapolis. They have the Navy event, then they hit the bars in dress uniforms afterward.
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You see this sort of thing all the time in Annapolis. They have the Navy event, then they hit the bars in dress uniforms afterward.
Interesting. Here reg force personnel would have to back to barracks or living quarters and change into civilian clothes before going out on the town. Reservists like myself would have to go home and change.
To be honest, I cannot think of any time when anyone or any group met up after a Mess function. By the time those things ended it was already past 2:00 am and everything in town had been already closed for an hour. If we got together off duty at other times we were in civilian clothes. Closest to a uniform anyone got was the gunners and airborne who had their own non regulation regimental T-shirts made up that they often wore when off duty and out in the town.
Different military traditions.
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Regimental/Squadron/Ship’s Captain’s Dinners are obligatory events for junior and senior officers in the Canadian Forces. There are usually at least one per year for each regiment. I believe the same for British. Aussi and Kiwis too.
Don’t know such for ships at sea now. Used to be that the Captain could only attend the ship’s Officer’s Mess on invitation. I understand that many of these traditions have been discarded for ships on patrol since they are now all designated dry spaces. That means no more of the traditional rum ration for the crew or the Captain’s Table Dinners for the officers.
December 26, Boxing Day. is a big day for any military land base. The ranks have a special dinner on Boxing Day at which the junior officers serve the enlisted their dinner in the Soldier’s Mess. Concurrently Sargeants and Warrant Officers are served there by the senior officers. Following these dinners the Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) invites the all the officers to the Sergeants’ Mess cocktails and light snacks. Following that the C.O. invites the RSM and all the warrant officers to the Office’s Mess for cocktails and a buffet dinner. Everything starts at 8:30 am and goes until the around 11:00 pm.
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Very interesting to hear about, Renauda.
Concurrently Sargeants and Warrant Officers are served there by the senior officers.
My Wing Chun class would often go out to eat after class ended. But this was in Rockville, and our instructor was from China. So we went to restaurants where our class brought more or less the only white people inside.
The rule (and a bit of an inside joke) was, the "youngest" (newest) student had an important job throughout the meal: make sure no one else's tea cup stayed empty. For like a dozen people, this can be a bit of a pain in the ass. Invariably, they'd make a comment about why they have to do this, or it's harder than it looks etc.
To which sifu would stare at him or her, pause a bit, and say, "get better at recruitment."
We knew he'd say it but it was his joke so we let him go for it every time. -
Very interesting to hear about, Renauda.
Concurrently Sargeants and Warrant Officers are served there by the senior officers.
My Wing Chun class would often go out to eat after class ended. But this was in Rockville, and our instructor was from China. So we went to restaurants where our class brought more or less the only white people inside.
The rule (and a bit of an inside joke) was, the "youngest" (newest) student had an important job throughout the meal: make sure no one else's tea cup stayed empty. For like a dozen people, this can be a bit of a pain in the ass. Invariably, they'd make a comment about why they have to do this, or it's harder than it looks etc.
To which sifu would stare at him or her, pause a bit, and say, "get better at recruitment."
We knew he'd say it but it was his joke so we let him go for it every time.That is not dissimilar than to the role of PMC (president of the mess committee) a position the C.O. voluntells by order upon the most junior officer in the regiment at an Officer’s Mess Dinner.
Been there done it, is all I can say.
