I think we should be doing more for our guys too.
Nothing really happened while I was in, only thing near 'shit" I got into was going through Shellback initiation. For you non-sailors or "Wogs' out there that's when a sailor crosses the equator for the first time.
It starts at midnight with a call for all "Wogs" to report to "King Neptune" and his assistant "Davy Jones." At first it's just lot of crawling around getting your ass kicked by Shellbacks. They make paddles out of sections of 1 1/2" fire hose. You spend most of the night crawling around on the deck getting your "slimy Wog" ass whooped by "trustee Shellbacks." Around sun up they start running Wogs through a perverted obstacle course. Crawling through rotting food left over from the mess, getting locked in a "saltwater Coffin" locked in the "stocks" while more Shellbacks kick your ass. Then it's on to the onion toilet where you get to take a big tasty bite out of an onion floating in the bowl. Finally on you're knees you're lead up to "King Neptune" and forced to eat a cherry out of his belly button which is covered on axle grease. From then on you're a Shellback.
