Well what can I say? Here are a few more (out of thousands…) pearls of wisdom handed down from Frogman to Frogman since the 50’s.
“I been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king! I likes pirate best.”
Teams-n-Shit.
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Well what can I say? Here are a few more (out of thousands…) pearls of wisdom handed down from Frogman to Frogman since the 50’s.
“I been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king! I likes pirate best.”
Teams-n-Shit.
Special Thanks to the pipe hitters in the 5326 Forum on Facebook for helping me with this month’s post!
Enjoy a glimpse inside the Team room and be warned….
Brandon
End of all jump (parachute) briefs: if your chute doesn’t open you have the rest of your life to get it to open…
When anything is fundamentally wrong:“That’s as wrong as two boys fucking”
A classic re-visited: Secure you cock holster meatstick.
HMCM Johnny Johnson…”I’ll kiss a fat baby’s ass & we’ll be smoking cigars and farting through silk”
STD Advice: How do you know you got the clap already??? ..”Hey, I know what clap tastes like”
Gordo Shipton when I checked into X – Division (X-Division is where new candidates and quitters are staged…) at Team 3 – “Welcome to the Teams and Shit – mostly Shit but you’ll get used to it…”
Words of Advice from M. Smiley: “When I was a kid I was poor – I used to cry because I had no shoes… but then I met a girl who had no feet – I fucked her anyway…”
Mike Smiley and his t-shirt with the dog mounting the guys face…”I think he likes you”
Chief Ellis to his platoon LPO: – while tromping though the Mango Swamps and mud of Malaysia “If we lived here we’d be home by now” (FST circa 72)
First Phase Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) Instructors talking about students who don’t belong: “I don’t care how hard you try, you can’t make ice cream out of shit…” This is also a saying used about situations encountered later in SEAL Team life….
Reimbursement for lost stuff: When the platoon finds out their “Duck” Frapped in (Duck=boat Frapped in=parachute on boat didn’t open and boat destroyed) “I’m pretty sure my Rolex and Gortex were on that Duck.”
ST3 GOLF Platoon 2000-“This deployment would be a lot more fun if we were all gay…”
CDR Simmons Commanding Officer of ST-5 92…each of you has a ticket, on that ticket is one death owed. No one’s ticket has a date. Be ready.”
Training Detachment Instructor: “Those guys (SEALs) were as loud as two elephants fucking on broken glass”
Life Advice on Trying New Things and keeping an open mind:“Gentlemen…before I die I’m gonna suck a dick, and if I like it…boy I’m gonna be pissed”- none other than Senior Chief “Mack” MacIntosh ’93.
Brandon Webb, a former Navy SEAL sniper and Naval Special Warfare Sniper Course Manager, is renowned for training some of America's legendary snipers. He is a multiple New York Times Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur, and Speaker. Webb is the Editor-in-Chief of the SOFREP news team, a collective of military journalists.
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