Petty Officer Jared Hicks stood in the navy legal office dirty, tired, and pissed off. He was trying to get his legal affairs in order prior to deployment when a fat Chief with a sparkling uniform showed up. The Chief stormed out of the snack room, noticed the untidy uniform and proceeded to provide forceful on the spot training. Jared just didn’t care. He would never see this prick again after he left this office, and didn’t have the energy to explain to him that he had spent the previous 36 hours doing real man’s work and would return directly to the sub to deploy. He estimated this guy had seen maybe two weeks of sea time during his entire career and would soon collect a pension for it. He took the verbal abuse and silently cursed the regulations that he didn’t have time for.

[This message has been edited by tgwharton (edited January 28, 2009).]