Darwin award, Navy style!

[Chuck Dye]

I once spent 50 minutes of each of several hours on pure O₂ at depth equivalents from 150fsw to the surface in a recompression chamber.  No high for me!

[280plus]

Tell them next time pump a little nitrous in there for you. 

[Chuck Dye]

Had surgery while on nitrous oxide  and have never been so nauseous as during recovery.  No thanks!

In a bit of classic Navy culture:

During the last part of the recompression procedure aboard USS Dixon, out of the chamber, I was turned over to a guy fresh from boot camp.  He was told to interview me and fill out forms as makey-learny (Navy OJT.).  I was told I could expect to be billed a few hundred dollars for what was actually several thousand in services.

I was never billed and I think I know why.  When the kid came to a box on the form he wasn't sure of, he turned and asked "Hey Chief, what do I put for autopsy results?"  The chief who had supervised my chamber run was in full flow spinning tales with a chief from the machine shop and didn't hear.  I answered "pending."  Relieved at having an answer without having to interrupt the chief, the kid wrote "pending."  I haven't been billed because the autopsy results aren't in yet.

[280plus]

Had surgery while on nitrous oxide  and have never been so nauseous as during recovery.  No thanks!

Sorry to hear that. When I was a kid they used it on me to pull some teeth. They told me it was "angel gas" and damn if I didn't dream about angels. Don't remember being nauseous. I has a demerol shot make me puke once. That wasn't much fun either. Appendectomy.   

 

I haven't been billed because the autopsy results aren't in yet.

Don't you love the Navy? 

I was just told one about some cadets being assigned a Chief, a couple POs and a Couple strikers to put up a flag pole and were each supposed to write exactly how they would use those men to erect a flagpole. They all went about writing out intricate plans of how they would do this. When it was all over only one had passed the test. He had written, "I would say Chief, get that flagpole up." 

[Chuck Dye]

Those Army types are clueless.  Middies would have done better!

[280plus]

Naval Cadets. Aren't they called cadets too?

[Chuck Dye]

Ooops!  I may have had my blinders on.  I once had to withstand the withering glare from several senior Navy officers, Dad among them, as it was explained to me that cadets are Army types, the Navy has midshipmen.  Such distinctions may no longer apply, may not have really applied even then, over three decades ago.

[280plus]

Yup, I've heard it both ways but they would probably wither and correct me as well. 

Funny part, my family's legacy is Army. They ween't too happy when I went Navy. 

[RoadKingLarry]

Had surgery while on nitrous oxide  and have never been so nauseous as during recovery.  No thanks!

In a bit of classic Navy culture:

During the last part of the recompression procedure aboard USS Dixon, out of the chamber, I was turned over to a guy fresh from boot camp.  He was told to interview me and fill out forms as makey-learny (Navy OJT.).  I was told I could expect to be billed a few hundred dollars for what was actually several thousand in services.

I was never billed and I think I know why.  When the kid came to a box on the form he wasn't sure of, he turned and asked "Hey Chief, what do I put for autopsy results?"  The chief who had supervised my chamber run was in full flow spinning tales with a chief from the machine shop and didn't hear.  I answered "pending."  Relieved at having an answer without having to interrupt the chief, the kid wrote "pending."  I haven't been billed because the autopsy results aren't in yet.

Spent quite a bit of time around the Dixon. Mostly tied up outboard of her. We would occasionally get into pissing contests with the tender crew. They would throw crap at the topside watch or other people up on deck. We would grease one rail on a ladder as retaliation.