You know you've worked with the navy too long when...

[dlgood]

One of my co-workers mentioned going down to North Carolina for a christening the sunday, and I asked him what ship that was.

After getting past the initial surprise, he pointed out that, obviously, people christen babies too. At which point I asked him "but wouldn't the champagne bottle hurt?"

I'm just really wiped today. I drove 250 miles on tuesday without much trouble, and yet couldn't drive twenty minutes to the store yesterday. (Settled on a closer, crappier store.) And today at work, I am just really dozing.

Did want to re-iterate my genuine enjoyment over the fun, fun NYC weekend. Most people were pretty much what I expected of them, though generally even cooler. Except for odd cases like dherblay, who for some reason, I assumed was Iranian. And sistakaren, who I somehow thought would be taller. But as a whole, people were funny and cool, and chill, and a good time was had by my drowsy, drowsy self.

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[dlgood.livejournal.com]

There are currently four East coast Naval bases:

1. Groton, CT (Submarines)
2. Norfolk, VA
3. Kings Bay, GA (Submarines)
4. Mayport, FL

There aren't any in NC. Though, they may or may not have commercial shipyards in Wilmington for all I know.

And as to the other question... I think it's kinda funny too.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

We used to have three here in Jacksonville (well, greater Jacksonville area): Mayport, NAS Jax, and NAS Cecil Field. Cecil closed down a few years ago, though. Somewhere around here, I'm pretty sure, is like the third-string airfield for the shuttle landing. I know there's an insanely long airstrip somewhere in the area.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah - there are Naval Air stations too, but I only know about the ones where the fleet is anchored.