Dirty Coffee Cups in the US Navy?

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The Real McCoy coffee cup, (with apologies to Devil Anse Hatfield) standard USN issue; enlisted. Wardroom and Chief's Mess had cooler issues.

I recall seeing the mess specialist's pulling magazines loaded with cups out of the dishwasher. Our ship was old and a bit of diesel fuel would get into the evaps. Sometimes more sometimes less. It helped break in the cups, our hair, everything. The one's in the various offices around the ship were pretty dark, they may have been rinsed out once in a while. That would be about it from the look of them. Mine was rinsed, in the office, once in awhile. Never heard of it being tradition though. Some of the Old Salts kept their's clean with the occasional "add shot" not coffee of course. Compai.

Never got too sick from that but some virus in Taiwan (some form of HK or bird flu, early on) pretty near killed me. Cranked up my immunity level after by cracky.

 

Cough, cough, bullsheet, cough. I know better than that, I can't remember anyone that after being in the field for a while, sitting there tired, cold, wet and hungry didn't make one of the world's best coffee's (or so it seemed at the time). Canteen cup, 2 x packets coffee Type I or Type II, packet of cocoa beverage powder, powdered creamer packet and sugar packet, mix with water, place a sliver of C4 under it and light. Great stuff.

 

No, I traded all my coffee packets for hot choco. I was a pretty good hot choco maker, can't argue with that. Sneaux makes good hot chocolate, and coffee too the coffee drinkers say. Plenty of it too, and one thing about being in Alaska, we could drink out of every stream we came across, except when herds of moose, musk ox, yaks or bears were frolicking upstream of course. Coffee packets were just about as valuable as smokes after about 10 days in the field. Just never got into coffee. Sometimes out in the field we'd get hot A's, which consisted of piping hot chilimac and steaming hot black mess hall coffee. Now I'd get a couple of canteen cups full of java then, mainly because being in the field in Alaska for several weeks kind of gets to you after awhile. Still didn't clean my canteen cup afterwards. I'd just scoop up some sneaux and let it melt a bit, swish it around, through it up in the air and watch it freeze before it hit the ground. Then I'd stow away the cup for next time. Even after I got on the state police, when I was a motorman in the wintertime it was hot chocolate all the way, except of course when there was not hot choco to be had, then I'd get a cup of coffee. When it wasn't cold, it was Dr. Pepper all the way!

 

If you are referring to us ground pounders, I now see the value of your line of thought. A pair of clean dry socks was worth more than gold in the field. Well, it ranked up there with a pack of smokes to the smokers, which was a club I didn't belong to. Had too much gear to carry as it was. Got so bad I had to throw the jokers out of the deck just to lighten the load.

 

I didn't realize Smokey and the Bandit was an autobiographical film, Buford!

 

Hmm diablo pork or chicken, I wonder. That's a some a spicy meatball. Reynolds was smooth in those days. Not as smooth as Cary Grant, Ali McGraw or Steve McQueen, but smooth.

 

Checking the trailer now. Looks good, great cast. Don't know a lot of the new actors these days. More of a Peaky Blinders, Dunkirk, Longmire, The Wire, The Crown, Churchill, The Third Man guy. Checking "The Darkest Hour" this w.e. Happy New Year!

Anyone who would star with "The Singing Nun." Is cool in my book. Right there with Betty Anderson, Gidget and the inimitable Patty Duke, God Rest Her Soul.

 

Tolerant with low expectations....?

 

Tepid and unpretentious