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Is your sailor a Snipe or Twidgett??
What will your sailor be?
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Permalink Reply by Molly Molly Fo Folly on
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A snipe is all Engineering rates...
everything that runs the ships. Engines, plumbing, the hull of the ship, electrical, air conditioning. Damage control , all of them are under the red stripe firemen umbrella.
A twidgett is electronic rates ....
They run everything that deals with computer systems, and I believe they maintain the computers also. They handle all the weapons that fire off the ships other then regular guns.
They are black stripes and are under the seaman umbrella.
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hmmmmm, so lets see, Garret is a red shirted, brown shoed snipe?
He is an Aviation Ordinanceman
also.........found this site while searching.......
www.hazegray.org/faq/slang1.htm
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Permalink Reply by Just Call Me KARMIE!! <3 on
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Sorry, didn't see this before I commented! :)
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Lucie I just love the Ordinance rates......
Some things can be very offensive, but that is the navy slang. I think they used to call it *salty* LOL
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Yep, it's Salty alright! But, so are sailors! We've all heard the words, He/She swore like a Sailor!
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Hi all. My son is a snipe.....not sure about the brownshoe/airdale thing...:-)
As for the language of sailors, he called yesterday and his 'petty officer' told them that they need to add the EFF word to their vocabulary......nice!!
Thank you Shirley for telling me about this forum!
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Permalink Reply by Mary, Proud Mom of Nick on
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oh my, am I going to spend all night trying to figure out what...EFF is?!!! Lol
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just sound out the whole 'word'. EFF if you say it is "F"...:-)..so.....
Also, just talked to him - again - his cell is EFF'd up....just kidding Mary!!!
Anyway, he said to say "WHO-YAH, SNIPES!" LOL
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Snipes are not colored shirts Teri .........he is just a snipe :) The color shirts donate airdales !
BTW I love your son already ~~ Hoo-yah snipes is correct !!!!
Because in case you haven't heard Snipes *Run The Navy*
Teri what rate is your sailor ?
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BTW Teri here is a Snipe group for you to look at and join if you want :)
http://www.navyformoms.com/group/snipemomsenginers
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Well, I'm still not sure what a rate is, but he said he is DCFA. Is that his rate??
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