I reenlisted today on the USS Constitution by the Vice President!!!
07-04-2008, 09:22 PM
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I reenlisted today on the USS Constitution by the Vice President!!! Like the title says...my ship is in Boston, MA for Harbor Fest and we did my reenlistment ceremony on the USS Constitution. I was originally supposed to be by some Admiral, but yesterday afternoon I got a call from my Chief that said the VPOTUS was doing it!
F-n sweet!
I got to be apart of a bunch of pieces of history today...
The Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in the whole world! it was commissioned in 1797 and has never been decommissioned. And it only gets underway once every 2 years to turn around and do a 21 gun salute - and i was there, on the ship!!
Dick Cheney is the only Vice President to ever step foot on the Constitution, and the last time a President was on the ship was 76 years ago!
I got a sweet certificate that says I got underway on the ship, and my reenlistement stuff i from Dick Cheney. And I of course was sworn in by him and got pictures and stuff, i just have to get them from the person who took them.
How awesome is that!?
This is a small snippet from the Boston Herald:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/re...osition=recent
F-n sweet!
I got to be apart of a bunch of pieces of history today...
The Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship in the whole world! it was commissioned in 1797 and has never been decommissioned. And it only gets underway once every 2 years to turn around and do a 21 gun salute - and i was there, on the ship!!
Dick Cheney is the only Vice President to ever step foot on the Constitution, and the last time a President was on the ship was 76 years ago!
I got a sweet certificate that says I got underway on the ship, and my reenlistement stuff i from Dick Cheney. And I of course was sworn in by him and got pictures and stuff, i just have to get them from the person who took them.
How awesome is that!?
This is a small snippet from the Boston Herald:
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/re...osition=recent
07-05-2008, 08:35 AM
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yea it was a good time. Not many people can say they have been underway on the Consitution, or have reenlisted there, OR have been reenlisted by the VP.
We got a tour of the ship and I damn sure couldn't have been in the Navy back then. Being an officer wouldn't have been too bad, but being an enlisted man would've sucked. I dont know how those guys did it...
We got a tour of the ship and I damn sure couldn't have been in the Navy back then. Being an officer wouldn't have been too bad, but being an enlisted man would've sucked. I dont know how those guys did it...
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07-06-2008, 06:19 AM
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The only thing that sucked was my friends from my ship couldn't go. So of course I couldn't take my own pictures so i had to rely on the ships photographer...and I haven't seen those pics yet
Cheney had a photographer with him, but I don't know how to get a hold of those pics
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Thats pretty f'n awesome mang! Congrats! I just got reenlisted by the Thunderbirds.... deff better than getting reenlisted by my flight commander.
