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- Dec 21, 2009
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My Gawd! I had forgotten about baluts until you brought it up. I pulled enough liberty in Olongopo PI to know what those nasty little things are, and at least look like, but fortunately I never found any urge to try one.
However, back in the days of wooden ships and Iron men, a real Chief Petty Officer's initiation would not be complete without a few baluts.
When I was a Chief at NAS Oceana, we had a retired Chief who was a production supervisor at the Smithfield Ham plant across the James River over in Smithfield, Virginia. Their motto used to be: "The only thing we waste is the squeal".
Our friend provided us with a container of fresh pig's eyeballs for our CPO initiation every year. Pigs eyes are routinely used for different medical purposes so getting them was not difficult or unusual.
The way it worked was like this: The initiate was presented with a container of eyeballs, and instructed to select one, and place it in a cup full of "truth serum", a vile (but completely edible) concoction that I would be killed for revealing the ingredients of. Then the poor slob was blindfolded and positioned on the "firing range". He was given a cup with his eyeball in it and instructed on the count of three to shoot the whole cup. (Unbeknownst to the the victim, a large, black olive is substituted for the eyeball...).
On the count of three, I have personally witnessed several people explosively launch a black olive fast enough to leave a smoke trail similar to a tracer round, as the olive tracked downrange. The results of that olive hitting the back of one's throat on the tail end of the flavor of the truth serum was a guaranteed crowd pleaser at every CPO initiation I ever attended...
It was also fun to make a wanna-be pick out his eyeball, and then keep it pressed against his forehead; effectively making him "keep an eye on himself"...
My Gawd! I had forgotten about baluts until you brought it up. I pulled enough liberty in Olongopo PI to know what those nasty little things are, and at least look like, but fortunately I never found any urge to try one.
However, back in the days of wooden ships and Iron men, a real Chief Petty Officer's initiation would not be complete without a few baluts.
When I was a Chief at NAS Oceana, we had a retired Chief who was a production supervisor at the Smithfield Ham plant across the James River over in Smithfield, Virginia. Their motto used to be: "The only thing we waste is the squeal".
Our friend provided us with a container of fresh pig's eyeballs for our CPO initiation every year. Pigs eyes are routinely used for different medical purposes so getting them was not difficult or unusual.
The way it worked was like this: The initiate was presented with a container of eyeballs, and instructed to select one, and place it in a cup full of "truth serum", a vile (but completely edible) concoction that I would be killed for revealing the ingredients of. Then the poor slob was blindfolded and positioned on the "firing range". He was given a cup with his eyeball in it and instructed on the count of three to shoot the whole cup. (Unbeknownst to the the victim, a large, black olive is substituted for the eyeball...).
On the count of three, I have personally witnessed several people explosively launch a black olive fast enough to leave a smoke trail similar to a tracer round, as the olive tracked downrange. The results of that olive hitting the back of one's throat on the tail end of the flavor of the truth serum was a guaranteed crowd pleaser at every CPO initiation I ever attended...
It was also fun to make a wanna-be pick out his eyeball, and then keep it pressed against his forehead; effectively making him "keep an eye on himself"...
