Do you want to help Navy DEP sailors like your sons or daughters? I need help writing ~ Navy Trivia ~

[Craig]

All,

I need help writing stories about famous sailors.  

As some of you know I run a website, NavyDEP.com,  that helps Navy deppers that have enlisted in the Navy, but haven't gone to boot camp yet.  I give them advice and help them understand the Navy.  To keep them interested in the Navy I write Trivia about cool Navy sailors that served in the Navy, weather they are good or bad.  It just has to be cool material that makes them think about the Navy.

I post this stuff here on N4M for you moms to enjoy too.  You can see some of my trivia at this link:

http://www.navyformoms.com/group/ctratemoms/forum/topics/navy-trivi...

 

With that said, I just can't keep up with writing this stuff.  I just don't have the time.  So, I am hoping some of you moms might help me out and write a couple interesting stories about famous sailors.  I will give you the name, and you just write about what made them famous, and how/when they were in the Navy.  It should be no more than a page, because any longer they would be bored.  Pictures  and YouTube is must.  If you don't write well, I can deal with that.  I just need the basics.

I'm hoping to have about 100 written (which is about the amount of days it takes for them to go to boot camp), and then just rotate them.  I have ~20 now.  

So if you would like to help me, please either reply to this post or pm me.  

 

Here is an example. 

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(Courtesy of NavyDEP.com)

Welcome to the Navy Trivia section. Every so often I will ask a question about the Navy or a famous sailor. Remember, its not important that you get the answer correct. What is important is that you remember this Navy information so you can pass it along to others....... GO NAVY!

I am a famous sailor, who am I?

 

I am Paul Newman -

His blue eyes have been written about so much that he probably wishes they could be copyrighted. Perhaps less widely known is that Paul Leonard Newman enlisted in the U.S. Navy on 22 January 1943, after his graduation from Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio. The second son of a thriving sporting-goods storekeeper (Arthur, his brother, eventually became a film production manager), Paul (born 1925) had acted in a few school productions but had never considered making a profession of show business. He attended Ohio University in Athens while he waited to hear from the Navy, and during his months there he had time to perform in another school production, The Milky Way, in which he played a boxer.

Newman was sent to the Navy V-12 program at Yale, with hopes of being accepted for pilot training. But this plan was foiled when a flight physical revealed him to be color-blind. So he was sent instead to boot camp and then on to further training as a radioman and gunner.

Paul Newman, Actor, He has been nominated six times for best-actor Oscars (Cat on a Hot Tine Roof 1958; The Hustler, 1961; Hud, 1963; Cool Hand Luke, 1967; Absence of Malice, 1981; and The Verdict, 1982), and he won the actor-of-the-year award at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for The Long Hot Summer, with Joanne Woodward. This down-to-earth, Budweiser-drinking (counteracted by daily workouts), regular-guy superstar has made a career of turning in memorable performances. Delighting his audiences time after time in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting, (1973), and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Paul Newman was finally recognized with an Academy Award for his portrayal of The Hustler's Fast Eddie Felson, now middle-aged, in The Color of Money (1986).

 

Paul Newman is/was committed to helping make the world a better place. To carry on his philanthropic legacy, Newman’s Own Foundation donates all net royalties and profits after taxes it receives from the sale of Newman’s Own products to charities worldwide. So far, it has donoted more than $300M to thosands of charities around the world.

 

 

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Completed:

• Paul Newman - American Actor, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Richard James - Maker of the Slinky, and worked for United States Navy!
• Fred Gwynne - American Actor  (aka Herman Munster), and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Clyde W. Tombaugh, Astronomer, the discoverer of the ex-planet Pluto, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• John Dillinger, Bank Robber and womanizer, and United States Navy Sailor!
• Calvin Leon Graham, youngest serviceman during WW2, and United States Navy Sailor! 
• Country Joe” McDonald, Singer with Country Joe” and the Fish, famous for the F*CK cheer (Give me a "F") and the song "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die", and a United States Sailor!
• Charles David Tandy, Founder & CEO of the Tandy Corporation (RadioShack), philanthropist, civic leader, and a United States Sailor!
• Steelworker Second Class (Diver) Robert D. Stethem, United States Navy Sailor, was a murder victim due to terrorism.
• Larry Flynt, Jr.,  American publisher and the president of Larry Flynt Publications (LFP),  most notably Hustler, career-long battling against censorship, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Dr Henry Heimlich, inventor of the “Heimlich Maneuver”, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Rick James, American singer (famous for the song "Super Freak", songwriter, musician, record producer, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Stanley Kirk Burrell (aka MC Hammer), singer of "Can't touch this", and a United States Navy Sailor!!
• Tony Curtis, American film actor, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Percy Spencer, Inventor of the microwave oven, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Ernest Borgnine, Actor famous for McHale's Navy, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Rear Admiral Grace Murry Hopper, famous sailor famous for coining the term "bug" as in  The computer software has a "bug" in it, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Bob Barker, host of the longest-running TV game show -- The Price Is Right, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (aka Bill Cosby), American Actor, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Eddie Albert, Actor, Famous for the TV show Green Acres, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Famous Sullivan's brothers, 5 family members assigned to the USS Juneau when the ship was stuck by a Japanese submarine
• Roy Harold Fitzgerald (aka Rock Hudson), American actor, and a United States Navy Sailor!
• Humphrey DeForest Bogart (aka Humphrey Bogart), famous American actor, and United States Navy sailor!

NEED TO COMPLETE:

Here is the 1st batch:
1.  Jay Waverly North (aka Dennis the Menace)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_North

 

2.  Maurice "Moe" Strauss  (aka PepBoys Mannie, Moe, and Jack)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_%22Moe%22_Strauss

 

3. William Patrick "Willy" Stuart-Houston (aka nephew of Adoft Hitler)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Patrick_Stuart-Houston

 

4.  Charlotte Louise Berry Winters (the last surviving female American veteran of WW1)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Winters

 

5.  Gary Leon Ridgway (America serial killer known as the Green River Killer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway

[CaptainFatso]

I'll help

[JessicaB-Sailor Mom]

YAY, Craig from the sound of CaptainFatso's name you have met you match in the wry/dry humor department. I think that the two of you would be great. How about Arwen, Bunker, Lady Hamilton, and I know that there are a few others that have been on here forever (Plank members)

[CaptainFatso]

lol..

Captain Fatso (AKA Boatswains Mate First Class Fatso Gioninni) is a character from a series of Daniel V. Gallery books. I was in the Great Lakes one winter going to A School. There wasn't much to do, so I went across the street and purchased this guy's books. It was some of the funniest stuff I've ever read.

If you're ever looking to buy your sailor something fun to read, you might consider "Now, Hear This", "Cap'n Fatso" or "Away Borders".

[BunkerQB]

Five reasons why I can't writ:

1. Terrible at spelling and grammar
2. I sucked at creative writing
3. When I golf, my language would burn up any sailor's ears
4. My stuff sounds like I am writing an instructional manual on how to operate a blender
5. My sailor has issued orders for me to cease and desist on N3M since his days as an active sailor is about to come to an end.

I could sweet talk my hubby into writing stuff but it would sound like a court order - no one would read it.

LOL. BQB.

[JessicaB-Sailor Mom]

Bunker...love to read your posts. Once when I was in elementary school I got 3rd place in a spelling bee. I left my parents a note to let them know and accidentally mispelled third....spelled it thrid. They got a kick out of it.

[BunkerQB]

Well Jess - hey could you take a look at the Survival Guide.  I am thinking we need to list the Leaving in Jan, Leaving in Feb groups right under the link Boot camp moms group.  Any thing special you want in it. I am trying to wrap it up so it'll be there ........... for a long time.  After my sailor comes home, I'll be limiting my time to the San Fran group, NMSH and plus keeping up the PIR, ships List and updating the Survival guide. You might consider on the Bootcamp group - tell the new members to read through some of the stuff - it seems to help most - but there is a lot of stuff to take in at one time. 

[FireTeamLeaderWife aka FTLW]

[Anti M]

Paul...... drooollll

Oh, we're supposed to write something?  About what now?

[JessicaB-Sailor Mom]

Oh....how could I forget AntiM...Also Angie who else...someone help me

[Craig]

Captain - Thank you!!!

The above will show you 5 different ones.  Pick your poison and choose 1.  Most people like to write what they are interest in and we have both good and bad sailors.  The above links are just a starting spot.  I really would like the sailors rating (if possible) to bring it all together for the deppers. Again, pictures and a YouTubes are a must.

I really appreciate the help!

I EDITED THE ORIGINAL POST AND THE NAMES ARE AT THE BOTTOM.  

[CaptainFatso]

Jeepers Craig, North it is!

[JessicaB-Sailor Mom]

I'm more of a reader than a writer....so looking forward to reading all of ya'll's info