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    1. "Man on board"
    2. Vee L. Housman
    3. Dear Folks, This evening another Navy memory popped into my head. It was while I was stationed at Naval Air Technical Training Center outside Memphis, TN, in the 1950s. I was living in the large WAVES barracks there and every once in awhile the WAVE on watch on the Quarter Deck would announce loudly over the PA system, "Man on board, Man on board." That generally meant that a plumber or electrician would be wandering around the barracks to fix whatever needed fixing. But what it meant to us was that if we needed covering up, we needed to dash into our cubicles and put a robe on. After all, we were we were proper young ladies even though we were also sailors! vee

    03/21/2005 06:03:07