<p>The following is a story from the CORTRAMID (same as USNA’s PROTRAMID) cruise. Several of my upperclass were witnesses to the events, and used it as an example to show us how NOT to behave on cruise.</p>
<p>So, apparently there was this USNA mid who must have thought that his **** smelled like roses, and that God himself put that uniform on his back. He completely disrespected the enlisted guys on the sub. He made them salute him when they saw him, and chewed them out when they didn’t.</p>
<p>After a couple days of this, the enlisted guys couldn’t take any more. During one evolution, the mids were down in the torpedo room learning how the place works. The sailors gave the mids grease pens and let them crawl into the tubes to write their names on the tube door, explaining that ‘you’re only 4 inches from the open ocean there.’ Well, when it was this mid’s turn, they sent him in, and slammed the hatch shut. They proceeded to flood the tube, but stopped it half-way and let him sit in there for a few minutes before letting him out.</p>
<p>The mids didn’t see him a whole lot after that, and the enlisted guys could go about their business without having him hounding them.</p>
<p>When I first heard it, I laughed and thought it was unbelievable, but several mids on the same cruise confirmed it.</p>
<p>Now, I’m not implying that anyone, or anyone’s son/daughter is like that on this board…I thought I’d just provide it as an example of how the enlisted guys react to snot-nosed younguns.</p>