Posted on May 3, 2023
Navy using drag queen Harpy Daniels as "digital ambassador" sparks debate
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Navy using drag queen Harpy Daniels as "digital ambassador" sparks debate
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Back in the day, Crossing the Line ceremonies always included a pollywog "beauty contest". Just before a crawl through the old birth canal. The winner became King Neptune's Princess. (The Royal Baby was always the pollywog with the biggest pot belly)
Somehow this perversion seems different.
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/customs-and-traditions0/crossing-line.html
Somehow this perversion seems different.
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/customs-and-traditions0/crossing-line.html
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SFC Casey O'Mally
CWO4 Terrence Clark I agree with you. When I earned my hard stripes, blood rank was already officially and SPECIFICALLY banned by Army-wide policy. I told my Platoon Sergeant that I would personally whoop the ass (or at least try to) of every single NCO in the Platoon who did NOT blood rank me. There was no way in hell I was being cheated of that.
So we had the Company promotion ceremony, then very shortly after, a "private" promotion ceremony for the Platoon and "select other NCOs" out of sight of the Company HQ. "Select other NCOs" happened to include the 1SG, who was grinning ear to ear as he beat the shit out of my shoulders.
I had to toss that undershirt out; totally worth it.
So we had the Company promotion ceremony, then very shortly after, a "private" promotion ceremony for the Platoon and "select other NCOs" out of sight of the Company HQ. "Select other NCOs" happened to include the 1SG, who was grinning ear to ear as he beat the shit out of my shoulders.
I had to toss that undershirt out; totally worth it.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark - Interesting bit of history. I don't identify as a "pollywog", but having never crossed the equator on the open sea, I guess that makes me a pollywog. I'll have to add that to my bucket list.
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CWO4 Terrence Clark
SFC Casey O'Mally Ah yes, the demise of blood ranks. When initiations among warriors became some fuzzy construct called "hazing" we should have known it would lead to "I have two mommies" recruiting ads. In 26 years, hundreds of direct report sailors, never saw a single case of infection.
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