pilotyip
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black shoe brown shoe
the boat thing is a black shoe versus brown shoe, Black shoes being surface warfare officers and Brown shoes being aviatiors.
When you use the term boat in front of Black shoe they will normally correct you and tell you it is a ship. You tell you don't care what they call it as far as you are concerned if it floats it is a boat. I use to stand OOD (U) on CVN-65 and I always refered to myself a boat driver. The Captain even called it a boat. Brown shoe trivia. I was on watch at sundown on 6-30-76 somewhere in the pacific, which was the last day we were offically allowed to wear Brown shoes as aviators, the Flag Officer on board, a pilot, lead all 13XX's (pilots, NFO's) to round down and threw the brown shoes in the Pacific Ocean, a burial at sea more or less for the brown shoes, later of course they came back in the 80's. They then walked barefoot back to their ready rooms and put on black shoes. I may sure an offical logbook entry was made in the ship's log.
the boat thing is a black shoe versus brown shoe, Black shoes being surface warfare officers and Brown shoes being aviatiors.
When you use the term boat in front of Black shoe they will normally correct you and tell you it is a ship. You tell you don't care what they call it as far as you are concerned if it floats it is a boat. I use to stand OOD (U) on CVN-65 and I always refered to myself a boat driver. The Captain even called it a boat. Brown shoe trivia. I was on watch at sundown on 6-30-76 somewhere in the pacific, which was the last day we were offically allowed to wear Brown shoes as aviators, the Flag Officer on board, a pilot, lead all 13XX's (pilots, NFO's) to round down and threw the brown shoes in the Pacific Ocean, a burial at sea more or less for the brown shoes, later of course they came back in the 80's. They then walked barefoot back to their ready rooms and put on black shoes. I may sure an offical logbook entry was made in the ship's log.