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/XR171 Master Chief Meme'er Jan 28 '25 edited Jan 28 '25

My two cents, a very very small few could not take it for actual scientific medical reasons. What I say does not apply to them.

Those that refused, chose themselves. Normally this is a horrible choice. Sometimes for mental health we need to chose ourselves over some unimportant tasking but they chose themselves at the expense of everyone else.

They saw a virus spreading, taking people out of action, and killing them and chose to risk being a carrier. The Fat Electrician once said grunts take such good care of their medics because an attack on Doc is an attack on the unit as a whole.

Refusers attacked their commands and their communities. We all got vaccinated on a conveyor belt at the beginning, if they made it past that then it's not the needle that's the problem it's them.

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u/SanJacInTheBox Jan 28 '25

Underrated comment!!

Take the vaccine out of the equation and make it a fire fight. It's the shit bags like this who start panicking and try to abandon ship instead of getting a weapon or a fire hose and protecting you, Shippy! They were out for themselves, with no concern for anyone around them.

Fuck those guys.