14 October 2011
NEWSLETTER
OUR 13TH
SHERATON NORFOLK WATERSIDE HOTEL
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
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date with LaDonna
even if you don’t want it posted online.
Please contact LaDonna
Bradshaw, bb64members@aol.com. Or (601)
693-4614
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No Membership news to report
this week
Master at Arms
The Master at Arms
(MA) rating is by no means a modern innovation. Naval records show that these
sheriffs of the sea were keeping order as early as the reign of Charles I of
England. At that time, they were charged with keeping the swords, pistols,
carbines and muskets in good working order, as well as ensuring that the
bandoliers were filled with fresh powder before combat. Besides being chiefs of
police at sea, the sea corporals, as they were called in the British navy had
to be qualified in close order fighting under arms and able to train seamen in
hand-to-hand combat. In the days of the sail, the MAAs were truly "masters
at arms," serving another naval tradition.
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FACEBOOK INFORMATION
If you are a Facbook
member, you may want to check out the following two Facebook
pages;
I Served on USS Wisconsin BB-64 USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Reunion 2012
Neither of these two pages are
association pages. Pages were started by former crew members wanting to
rekindle shipboard friendship.
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