Navy SEAL craziness

While onboard the USS Kitty Hawk, We were graced with the presence of SEAL team 5. They came aboard with a container (like a train car container) that had all of their equipment inside. They checked and double checked all kinds of weapons in the hangar bay and mostly kept to themselves. There were the occasional meet your fellow sailor moments, but mostly they had a job on their mind and were completely focused while they got ready for their assignment.

I heard all kinds of stories that they ate spaghetti through their noses in the mess hall, threatened people with throwing them overboard..just a rowdy bunch that nobody seemed to control. I had respect for what they do, but they were just uncontrollable and didn't seem to answer to anyone.

While onboard the ship, they were completely destructive. Two guys seemingly plastered, tore up a bathroom on the ship. At the time I was responsible for my squadrons spaces and it was one of our bathrooms. I was notified that our head was being destroyed and I had to do something about it. Upon arrival I found two pissed off SEALs. I surely didn't try to be a badass, but I informed them they were destroying government property and somebody had to fix the mess they created. My exact words were, "You may not care, but you are ruining where we have to live." on that note, both guys apologized and left without incident. At the time, I was thinking either guy could just beat the hell outta me but they listened to a calm and collected voice. I did not want to enter that head but at the time it was my responsibility. I got shoved around a little bit and asked who was my CO (commanding officer) but they left without tearing any more stuff up. To this day, I don't remember which guy was my CO at the time, Bailey or Monger. I did end up getting an "attaboy" from the skipper for telling two SEALs to stop tearing up our head.

The next day, I saw them in the hangar deck as they were preparing to leave. I didn't say anything because I was still pissed off that they had screwed up the head. All of them were loaded to the hilt with weapons. One of those guys brought me a SEAL team 5 patch and handed it to me and gave me a wink. All he said was "Go Navy!"

I sent the patch home to my son, hopefully he still has it because I don't think he understands the pressure I was under for those guys to give it to me. Not fun, but definitely memorable.