it's screw screw screw, oy. and in the immortal words of limey the lima bean, "screw you":p :D

Got no problem with the rest of your humor, but when I was in they drilled us nonstop: "If it goes up through the overhead or down through the deck, it's a hatch. If it goes through a bulkhead, it's a door." Watertight door!

Oops! I should have specified. It IS a metal door, and it's not water tight (care to remember that one? Each one had to be stenciled: NTD ) and that was what I was talking about.

The 3 ships I served on we always called them NTD's.

But yes, you are absolutely correct of course, hatches are up and down, WTD's are through the bulkheads.

Always loved replacing the gaskets on them when I was the DC PO......NOT! :shifty: took me months to figure out how to make the ends meet and not have a 1 inch gap! grrrrrrrrr!
Ack! Now you've gone and made me remember all those deck drains I used to have to clean out and fix! :rotfl:

AAAHHH the joys of DCPO's...i used to loathe the days spent heading up that division...lol.

Cant say i miss it much.

It's a little off topic, but all this banter about screws and propellers reminds me off an old RAF gag.
It used to be printed on t-shirts and patches worn by C130 crews and groundcrews as a dig at the fast jet jockeys.

"4 Screws are better than 2 Blow Jobs"

LMAO :rotfl:

I'm glad you agree, because I'm having memory problems these days, and I wasn't 100% sure. I used to watch JAG all the time, and throw popcorn at the screen every time someone in an office, on shore, said "Close the hatch".:damn:

You're very welcome. And now I'll talk about my month as a mess cook. I was always complimented on my coffee, which is odd because I hate coffee and always made it by reading the rules!

Do I sense here a little critique against the "rules"? Eh? ;)

My last armed-service rule about coffee was given by setting up the to-be-achieved success: A good coffee in the morning must be like a hit with a fist in the face. :arrgh!:

Then only rule I had about coffee was my cup in the First Class Mess. "Don't Touch!" I don't care HOW dirty it looks!

No, I just have no idea how coffee should taste. When they told me how good mine was, I thought it was funny, because there was no special "my" coffee, just what it said on the side of the machine.

citation: Always trust the machines, they know it better...
;)