A Navy Lookout's Discovery at Sea

On deployment with the Navy a nineteen-year-old lookout spotted a dead body in the ocean.

So the crew did the decent thing and brought on board, double bagged it, put it in a freezer,

and handed it over to the local authorities at our next port visit. Not to go too far

into the gory details, there were enough teeth left to identify it by dental records. Somebody had to

clean the wire stretcher that had brought it in. And despite the common acronym for

Navy (Never Again Volunteer Yourself) I knew another teenager would be assigned that chore unless

somebody more mature took it on. So I volunteered. The Corpsmen provided PPE and iodine and

I gave it a good scrubbing. Sailors being what they are, two rumors ran around