In response to my last post commenter RickyDean replied…
“I’m glad to hear that you were never in harm’s way in the navy. When I first read the passage I thought you had been in that situation.
I hear voices in my head too. My psychologist says that hearing voices is a sign of schizophrenia. Whatever that means. I think everyone has voices that they battle with. Just as long as you don’t do what they say…right Benny? 
Anyways…thanks for the stories. I know most of them probably aren’t true, but I like to believe that they are. The way that you write them makes them very believable.”B’ob has a superb post today that accurately describes people like Rickydean:
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2007/04/eye-for-wedgie.htmlFirstly, anyone in a peacetime Military is in ‘harms way’, and it was no different during the Cold War.
Sailors are subject to danger from the possibility of accidents, fires, floods, the weather, the sea, and during my time in the Navy; mines laid by Iran, Iranian homicide bomber boats, Iranian rockets and missiles, Iranian homicide aircraft,
and the Iranian “navy”.
In future posts I’ll write about how we handled those dangers. For those like Rickydean, I can assure you, we won those skirmishes.
Not to mention the possibility of hostile actions by communist ships, subs and aircraft by the former USSR, China and North Korea, to name a few.
I recall being lit up by fire-control RADARs from Soviet Migs and combat ships and the Soviet ships always pointed their missiles at us.
They always claimed they were doing “maintenance” on their RADAR’s and weapon systems, so we always did our own “maintenance”.
Still, it was a bit tense during those confrontations, because you just don’t know what brainwashed commie maniacs are going to do and unfortunately, our ROE (rules of engagement) at the time were very clear: We could not fire unless first fired upon.
Fire-control RADAR’s are a provocative act, nonetheless.
Getting back to our morally demented commenter…
Gee Rickydean, you thought I was writing about voices? If I were writing about voices I would include “quotation marks”.
I was writing some of my thoughts at the time, and they were all coming from me, and I Am.
Rickydean is just oversaturated with sarcasm and bitterness, driven by a self-imposed need to confuse that which is clear, because reality is too scary.
Rickydean has discarded the virtue of civilty, and it’s obvious what his goals are.
Moral dementia is actually worse than open immorality (although they aren’t exclusive of each other) because those that embrace it try to hide what it really is and what it really means.
