Difference between the Services.

[Dis]

the navy one is great.

I miss our "special" language

[Buck Birdseed]

I was browsing around Amazon.com a while back when I came accross a system called Purchase Circles which supplies statistical data on what is bought by people living in certain areas, working for certain government departments, etc.

It's quite interesting to compare the uniquely well selling books and records of each branch of the US military... Army personnel buy more than the usual amount of Elvis, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison... and Elton John (!), the Air Force is apparently full of lovers of crap Nu Metal, The Marines are disturbingly high on Fantasy literature, topped by Harry Potter and Atlas Shrugged while The Navy combines smoochy R&B with, er, Mac OSX for UNIX Geeks.

Of course, the absolute top seller lists are pretty similar but it's still quite fun.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


There's more truth in those than the ones you actually take.

A friend here at Fort Sill gave me those. I took one look at them and just had to share with everyone else

[Midshipman]

Originally posted by Dissident
The air force seems to have so much better funding than the navy. Their bases look so much nicer as well. I can't explain it. Of course the air force doen't have expensive ships to take care of. I think a lot of the navy's budget goes to maintenance on the ships. I'm sure the ships go over budget every year.

Hell I know we never actually saved any money. If our division had any money left over we bought new office furniture. When we started out in the shipyard we had crappy furniture we stole from other parts of the ship. After our first cruise we had a decent office (small but decent). Actually we had two- one for Radcon, and the other was the water chemistry office. We also had an HP (health physics) office as well.

But no matter how hard you try, laying tile on steel decks can only look so good. And white paint over steel only looks so good.

You just can't compare to how nice air force bases are.

And I think some of the nicer navy shore bases had civilian employees that would pick up your trays. I cannot remember exactly. I have eaten at some bases like in Sigonella, Sicily. They are an air base. I do think the Air part of the navy gets better funding than the regular navy.

I found it strange most people preferred to eat at McDonald's than on base though. I hate McDonald's. Granted I do get sick of the poor quality beef and other meats on navy bases. But the other food is OK. Often on shore bases most people eat the fast food and don't go to the galley. But the shore bases do have better food. Because in the Clinton years they all shifted to civilian workers.

Yeah, Sicily is good, but I have noticed that pretty much all overseas galleys that are shore based, ie Souda, Rota, Sig and Bahrain, have the same system, with a load of local nationals doing the cleanup work.