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One of the harder habits to break is table manners for prior enlisted.
My plate or dish is empty at least half a hour before everyone else. I just sit there politely...for half a hour. I don't eat with my mouth open, I use a fork (tines down in left hand and knife for scraping and cutting in left) But I appears I must eat very quickly and efficiently.
If I'm not paying attention I will have both elbows and arms on table cradling my meal like a baby. I also catch myself from time to time wetting a napkin to stick under my plates and glass.
On the small boats it would be MRE's whilst we were pitching and rolling, trying to hold on as well as stuff our face as fast as possible.
For the most part we were seated at tables so there's one of the bennies of a sea-going service. I don't know what kind of manners are created in a MRAP or a Abrams?
Now the Officer Corp ring knockers, those boys and girls get classes on pomp and circumstance, full on Emily Post.-WW
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