Hi Y’all,
Here on Presidents Day I thought I’d share a story (long one, jump down for the good stuff) of a very memorable Presidents Day that took place when I was in the Navy. For those that don’t know I was once a Navy Corpsman back in the mid 90s (yes I’m old). One of the places I was stationed was at Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station in Puerto Rico (when it was still open, don’t ask me my opinion of Puerto Rico unless you want a very honest opinion). I worked at the Naval Hospital and lived in nearby Fajardo in a pretty nice apartment tower called Dos Marinas.
One of the least popular things to do in the Navy is pull Duty. Duty means you have to show up to work as normal and once your day ends you go on Duty which means you sit and become the hospital answer desk for 12 hrs until the hospital comes to life again the following day. If who you work for is nice they’ll let you get some rest once you come off Duty but in my case I had to go back to work as at the Internal and Flight medicine clinic. That next day happened to be President’s Day but there was a group of Marine helicopter pilots off the USS Wasp needing some physicals. The Wasp which is essentially a Marine troop carrier had pulled in for refueling and R&R. Because of this I knew there were going to be a ton of Marines everywhere looking for fun and as a burgeoning slut I wasn’t about to miss that opportunity.