Thread: My navy jacket

Originally Posted by Major_Armstrong

I'm surprised to see so many people here with poor reading skills. I had the impression there were a lot of smart people here, with all the political discussions going on.

Oh, yeah. It absolutely MUST be all of our reading skills and definitely NOT your writing skills.

Originally Posted by Major_Armstrong

I'm surprised to see so many people here with poor reading skills. I had the impression there were a lot of smart people here, with all the political discussions going on.

Our reading skills are just fine, you simply write like a 10 year old.

Some advice....remove the stripes then its fine. Do Not wear those stripes and expect people that actually served to grant you clemency because they definately will not. Those that wear those stripes have earned those stripes and you have not so wearing them as a civilian is nothing less then insulting them in public. So you can expect to have many problems with many people over those stripes. IMO I would stongly recommend that you dont wear them in any town close to a naval port or naval installation (Washington,Virginia etc) unless ofcoarse you desire a close encounter with miltary boots. Its not the fact that your father or uncle served (many of ours have). The fact is you have not. And those stripes belong to someone who certainly has and as well earned the very respect that belongs with them. Truthfully, Im very surprised that jacket was even sold to you a civilian.

Do you honor your nations armed forces?
Do you understand the sacrafices they made then and are making now?
Then remove the stripes and ask no more.

Let me look closer at this mess you call a post.

I get way too much attention from my navy jacket in public. I bought a navy jacket a couple years ago at a yard sale which was sold by the original owner (who had been in the US navy) to me for $5.00. I asked him if it was legal to wear in public and he told me it was. After wearing the coat a while I found that I liked the way it fit and the freedom I felt while wearing it compared to other jackets I had owned before. It even kept me dry in the rain and would dry out fast after being out of the rain.

So you bought a jacket and you liked it?

I decided I would never wear an expensive jacket again after the last jacket (a leather jacket) was robbed from me (in 1984) at gun point in Washington D.C. along with my car (carjacking) and $40.

This is relevant how?

Plenty of police and military people in uniform saw me wearing the navy jacket for years and never said anything to me about it. Sometimes people (not in uniform) in public would say something about it and tell me they were in the military. I think the two stripes mean quarter master first class, but I can't remember exactly. Someone told me it was used by some people doing maintainence in the navy.

Good for you.

One time a black man flipped out when he was looking at my jacket at a subway station when I looked at him and grinned at him while pointing to the stripes. He told me there was a white military and a black military which I thought was funny.

Relevance? Also why did you point at the stripe and grin? Sounds like you like play sailor.

Now don't forget what I said about the original owner (who had been in the navy) of the jacket selling it to me legally who, by the way, acted perfectly calmly during the sales transaction.

Unlike you we have pretty good reading skills so we haven't forgot this.

Recently, when I was in Crystal City, Virginia, I was standing in a post office getting stamps at a vending machine and a man with gray hair and in civilian clothes (no uniform) came up to me and put his finger on the stripes of my jacket without my permission which is against the law and is considered to be assault, and told me I was going to be arrested for wearing the navy jacket I had on. I wasted about five minutes with the imbecile repeating "no I won't" several times when he repeated that I was going to be arrested several times. I got to the point where I started yelling at him "I don't give a ****" over and over, and he finally walked away and told me that too many people have died for me. Remember that I said a former navy man sold it to me legally.

1. That's not assault by any means.
2. Did it ever occur to you to walk away?
3. You don't have to constantly whine aobut how this Navy man sold it you.
4. By the way the word Navy is capitalized when referrring to the US Navy.

Today (February 8, 2006) someone told me he saw someone in the military rip off the stripes from someone's jacket in public one time because he thought it wasn't showing respect to the military.

Why is this rumor relevant at all?

I didn't think it was necessary for me to tell anyone that my father and uncle were in the navy in WWII, but why should that matter when a lot of lives were saved dropping the atom bomb on Japan and no one gives back their land to the Indians?

WTF? You just completely lost me with that completely meaningless statement.

Also, the US government has been selling military surplus for as long as there's been a US government as far as I know. I see it in stores, too. They force me to pay high taxes, most of which go to the military. Its high quality and it would be a waste to throw it into a garbage dump when land is in short supply because of the population explosion and the world's resources are being used up constantly at ever increasing rates. So are some of these military people screwed up? The more educated ones I've talked too seem to be very sane. The toilet cleaners seem to be the ones with the head problems.

Factually inaccurate and irrelevant anyway.

BTW, there have been things in the news about people being shot for wearing Eddie Bauer jackets and other designer jackets. Usually its a robbery, but I don't know the whole story. I'm thinking of printing this out and distributing copies to people who ask me about the navy jacket now. Maybe I'll start distributing this to everyone who even looks at my jacket.

Where the hell did that come from? Also it's about as irrelevant as everything else in your "post".


Still convinced that the problem is all ours?

Finally I'll add some advice. Even if wearing the jacket with it's stripes intact is legal, something you've yet to demonstrate it's disrespectful to people who've done more than pay $5 for them. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.

Originally Posted by Major_Armstrong

If you can't understand it don't reply and waste space in this thread.

How bout they do whatever they want while you eat broken glass and die?


LOL.....Poor Maj Armstrong, i guess people don't like your anti-Che' avatar.

What's with the Major title?