US Navy

Journey of the Tapes: Navy Basics

This entry was posted in Journey of the Tapes and tagged Basic Training Power Reginald Major Robert Smalls Camp US Navy on April 28, 2017 by devmajor@pacbell.net

Growing up my father told us many stories of accts of successful resistance. Some serious, some sad but the Navy man in basic training who peed his way out of the Navy and out of World War II was definitely one of my favorites. Peeing the bed as an act […]

Journey of the Tapes: You’re in the Navy Now 2

This entry was posted in Journey of the Tapes and tagged Jack Frost sugar Reginald Major US Navy on April 21, 2017 by devmajor@pacbell.net

My father was inducted into the Navy at seventeen years old. He was definitely not “military material” so I was surprised, despite World War II and the general national patriotism, that he would have signed up that young. But my father did not enter the Navy waving a flag, he […]