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Originally Posted by Greg
So far it's a matter of dealing with the boredom of the blockade. The 8th book in the series starts out with quite a bit of attention to shipboard life. No guns fired in anger yet, but they've been having fun with training runs using gunpowder that Captain Jack bought from a fireworks manufacturer.
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The very first things, one learns in recruit school are.
"That man there", and "HURRY UP AND WAIT".
And ah, good old practice.
We used to do that to. Just about any Sunday afternoon, you would find us,
standing on a tossing destroyers quarter deck, shouting "pull", to the bloke launching the clay targets for us.
Of course we had to pay for the amo we used. It was only 12 gauge anyway.
And the pretty pink skeet clays.
