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- From: wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
- Subject: Re: Random Navy Cap Protocol Question
- Message-ID: <Bxx2EH.50@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: Cornell University
- References: <BxM62n.59M@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <Bxq1LM.Mq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:47:05 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Thomas Schoene)
-
- In article <Bxq1LM.Mq@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
- Dan Sorenson <viking@iastate.edu> writes:
- >
- > From Dan Sorenson <viking@iastate.edu>
- >
- > billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick) writes:
- >
- >>I have quite a few Navy ship caps, some with scrambled eggs and others
- >>plain.
- >
- >>Is it considered rude to wear one if you're not a member of the ship's
- >>crew or even in the Navy?
- >
- > From my time in, it is considered rude if you have no naval
- > background and don't look the part, but few care. If you wear one,
- > you are automatically assumed to have served aboard her. Nobody will
- > beat you up, of course, but the scrambled eggs caps are preferable if
- > you don't *look* like former Navy as nobody will think you a former
- > officer and just think you a poser.
-
- One other hint. If you are talking about caps from submarines, make sue you
- get one with the gold officers' dolphins. The enlisted personnel tend to be
- more upset about people wearing caps with the silver enlisted dolphins since
- they have to go through a lot to earn them.
-
- If they really didn't want you to wear them they wouldn't sell them. The
- procedes usually go to the family fund or some such so it is in a good cause.
- --
- Tom Schoene
- wwo@cornella.cit.cornell.edu -or- wwo@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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