CDR Salamander - Holiday in Guantanamo

Think of thing in the Navy that, well, just don't make it to the recruiting advertisements.

Deploying over the holiday season.

Finding out your "liberty port" is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Throw in the post COVID-19 experience, and, well ... so sorry Shipmates.

USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), a Freedom variant littoral combat ship, remains in port as some Sailors test positive for COVID-19. The crew is 100% immunized and all COVID-19 positive Sailors are isolated on board and away from other crew members. A portion of those infected have exhibited mild symptoms. The vaccine continues to demonstrate effectiveness against serious illness.

Knowing how Omicron is burning through everywhere ... is this going to be our standard response from here on out?

We'll see.

Well, besides working on PQS and catching up on PMS ... I wonder what else they can do?

Do they have a ships band? If so, GenX has an idea for them.

If you modify the lyrics (suggestions below) ... they the 80s may have something for them to work with.

This should be the USS Milwaukee's breakaway song: (apologies to the Dead Kennedys);

Watch the above but with these lyrics in your head ... I think it works. 

So, you've been on sea duty for a year or two

And you know you've seen it all

In COVID's Navy, thinking you'll go far

In the Caribbean your type don't crawl

Playing counter-drug to parade your aluminum

On your 3-jab vax

Braggin' that you know, how the Coasties feel warm

And sea duty is sea duty

It's time to test what you most fear

Cloth masks will not help you here

Test yourself, my dear

Test yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Guantanamo 

It's tough, kid, but it's life

It's a holiday in Guantanamo

Don't forget your deployment wife

You've lost your taste, your smell

You want everyone to quarantine

Do PQS while you bitch, per diem will make you rich

But your CO gets more PMS from you

Well, COVID gets you more time in your rack

For a slider a day

Asymptomatic no one cares

Then your test is pos anyway

Now you can go nowhere

Now you are welded to the pier

What you need, my son...

What you need, my girl...

Is a holiday in Guantanamo

Where MA's won't let you leave the pier

A holiday in Guantanamo

Where you'll still get sea duty credit anyway

LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS, LCS

LCS, LCS, LCS, ...

And it's a holiday in Guantanamo 

Where you're called a plague ship

A holiday in Guantanamo

Where the banana rat makes fun of you

LCS!

photo credit Anne Ney 

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