A rather rotund flight crew member, during survival training, maintains his fat would keep him warm much longer than anyone else if forced to ditch.
To which someone replied "What's the point of being warm if there's a harpoon stuck in you!"
During NBCD briefing on the upperdeck an instructor was addressing a group of runashore hardened members of the ship's company. He asked them what they would do if they saw someone running around the upperdeck, acting in a crazed manner, not wearing his respirator, foaming at the mouth, shouting incoherently with eyes glazed?
Came the reply, "I'd probably salute him, sir!"
Smallie boy at Navy Days.
"Are you a sailor mister?"
"Sure am son", came the reply
"When I grow up I'm going to be a sailor too"
"You can do one or the other son, but not both!" came the laconic reply.
Receives weather report from tower.
"Vertical Visibility ZERO".
"Is that feet or Metres"?
"He's been in so long that when he joined the Dead Sea was healthy!"
"Give me a Break! He couldn't tell us if the weather was rough yesterday!"
"How long have you been in the RN Smith?" enquired the CCY.
"Three Months" Smith replied proudly.
The CCY retorted "How did you manage to get that No 8 shirt so dirty in only three months Smith?"
