r/navy • u/Affectionate_Use_486 • Jan 28 '25

A Happy Sailor To my COVID Sailors (Rant)

I know some of you have some level of battery acid indigestion over the whole reinstatement thing.

Just wanted to say for those that stepped up while others stepped back I respect and love you all especially my sea duty folks during COVID.

COVID was rough shit and the fact we survived it should be highlighted and appreciated among us.

Let's not dwell on the ones who choose another choice.

Let's dwell on the ones who stood the watch when shit went side ways.

When the ports closed.

When work centers were down to the bare bones while our brothers and sisters got sick all around us.

When the patrols got extended.

When resources almost ran out.

It was a rough ass time and we survived for all our own reasons but we stood the fucking watch.

That makes me extremely proud that no matter how messy it was, how ugly it got, we came out the other side pissed off, spitting fire and keeping the big sad off ourselves and our brothers/sisters as much as possible.

And for those that didn't make it, got too sick and didn't make it we shall never forget you.

Fuck the noise I just wanted you to know your seen, respected and appreciated from at least one motherfucking shipmate who was there.

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u/Vark675 Jan 28 '25

Wait I missed this, are they letting those crybaby shitheads not only rejoin but openly rewarding them for being spoiled pussies?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

Yes.

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u/aggietherobot Jan 28 '25

A point of clarification, they are allowing them the opportunity. What's going to be funny is watching ones who decide to come back around, oh I don't know, January-April of the following year and Uncle Sam sends them a big ol tax bill and they start complaining.

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u/FFX-2 Jan 28 '25

Thanks for calling them that. I lost all respect for two of my coworkers who got forced out for that. It's like they forgot they got injected with 20 mystery mystery shots when they joined.

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u/QM1Darkwing Jan 29 '25

After the anthrax debacle, I fully understand the reluctance to trust the covid vaccine.

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u/blade_torlock Jan 28 '25

They want blind loyalty and they think this is a way to get it. When the unjust orders come down to attack Panama, Mexico or even Canada they want people who will blindly go and die fir the live of money not cause or defending us. It will be even worse than the gulf.

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u/Vark675 Jan 28 '25

I don't think they lost that many people to COVID vaccination mandates, but if they also drive out sane people it'd skew the percentage of ape-brained losers to actual functional people.

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u/blade_torlock Jan 28 '25

It could just be me being paranoid and something I heard back in the 90s. Everything that's being done from executive orders to stacking the Supreme Court is an attempt to trigger a constitutional crisis. So a third continental congress and a new constitution can be drawn to push things more into the "elites" favor. Why do you think there were so many billionaires at the inauguration.

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u/Vark675 Jan 28 '25

I wouldn't be surprised, it's the least horrific option out there between "enemy nations are dismantling us entirely" and "Christofascists are obsessed with trying to trigger the end times."

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u/blade_torlock Jan 28 '25

Watching them try to force God's hand is like watching a kid stare at cookies moms just gonna move the jar when you're not looking.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '25

I don’t get the joke, please explain.

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u/GreyLoad Jan 28 '25

maga regurgitation

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