Discovery players and naval history.

[Bannorn]

Like most old english families, my family has a long tradition of naval service - though, with the exception of the world wars, this "tradition" had died out by the 1900s - I was the first in a long time to actually volunteer. That being said, I thought I should share a story my grandfather told me once about his naval service - he started prior to WW2, as a junior officer (midshipman or some shit, I dunno, I was army not navy issue gay XD).

So he told me the story from before the war, and it goes vaguely like this: he and his mates - mostly junior officer ranks - served with a commander that was very doting, didn't check up on things sort of guy. So they got into this habit: They all wrote "Church of Turkey" on their forms, and every time one of their group had a religiously sanctioned holiday (eg. Jewish, Christian, Moslem holidays... whatever they could get, basically), they would all declare that their "Church" followed that same belief, thus earning themselves a paid day off. They did this for years (grandfather used to joke he probably owned the Navy "thousands in back pay for holidays"), before eventually the old captain retired and was replaced by a more savvy officer who put a stop to the shenanigans. Strange as it sounds, seems the war did him some good - post war he was the model officer, got his own command toward the end of his career. I can never help but smile when I imagine a ship full of navy officers coming up with weird and wonderful holidays, so they could go out to the pub with their mates!


Edit: @Thunder You say that, but Landlocked Navies