I would suppose we the retired "Flags" are banished to the "forums" and "Blogs" of the world, gone since '03 the true art of communication.....Just a rant, but I would not mind a bit hearing from a few of the "Sigs" out there!
I would imagine the Knox Class was the last tin can to actually have a signal bridge.....QM's doing any ZWC, or is the art totally forgotten?

ZWC I am an old QM and I was the only one on the USS ARD 22 in Subic and I would send out ZWC's to the ships I could see, unfortunately I could send better than I could recieve so they soon tired of not getting any questions answered. Also had an ET friend on the USS Genesee AOG 8 and we would send short arm Semephore in the bars. Found a few of the Bar Lasses that could send it also, Now with the evolution of skivie's to thongs no one can see them when you wave them, you just put in a micro chip and comm established, Westpac Willie

SM1 Billy "Bad A s s" Buddusky. (Jack Nicholson) … Probably due to Hollywood, the most well known Navy Signalman in American movie history….

When you said skivvie waiver, I thought you meant a chit, so I didn't have to wear underwear.

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Originally posted by billdawg24:
When you said skivvie waiver, I thought you meant a chit, so I didn't have to wear underwear.

glad i wasn't the only one thinking that lol

Its a generational thing.

Now if you'll excuse me, its time to take my Serutan.

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Originally posted by RiverRat139:
Its a generational thing.

Now if you'll excuse me, its time to take my Serutan.

That's Natures spelled backwards.
So the old commercial said.

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Originally posted by AndrewMcGee:

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Originally posted by billdawg24:
When you said skivvie waiver, I thought you meant a chit, so I didn't have to wear underwear.

glad i wasn't the only one thinking that lol

Me too.

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Originally posted by FearlessFosdick:

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Originally posted by RiverRat139:
Its a generational thing.

Now if you'll excuse me, its time to take my Serutan.

That's Natures spelled backwards.
So the old commercial said.

I'll bet you even remember the "Fuller Brush Man" too.

He visited my house several times but he never made a sale.

Fuller Brush still exists and my company has a contract to provide IT services to them.

Remember when the insurance man came to the house every month to collect the payment and discuss how things were going?

And the milk got delivered to the door by the kitchen. Had the cream on top of the skim in glass bottles that were recyclable.

You could get candy cigarettes at the store or bubblegum cigars.

The dry cleaner would pick up cloths at the house and bring em back the next week.

The honey wagon would go by on a hot day and you didn't have to see it to know it.

The coal truck backed up to the front of the house and dumped coal into a bin through a cellar window.

The ice truck would sell you a block of ice to put in the cooler and you paid by the pound.

You could get cooked crabs and clams from a push cart that came around on fridays.

Just some real early childhood memories.

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Originally posted by RiverRat139:

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Originally posted by FearlessFosdick:

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Originally posted by RiverRat139:
Its a generational thing.

Now if you'll excuse me, its time to take my Serutan.

That's Natures spelled backwards.
So the old commercial said.

I'll bet you even remember the "Fuller Brush Man" too.

Yup.
I grew up not too far from the Fuller Brush factory and my uncle worked there.

There are still a few of us around.