I did wonder what it was about naval gunners that made them more prone to falsifying records but looks like it is related to midshipmen working out celestial sights: From here: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/o/origin-navy-terminology.html…

[image] Overworked Seafarers Face ‘Systematic Failures’ in Work-Rest Compliance -Report gundecked That’s the US Navy version of “pencil-whipped”.

Huh… didn’t think folks worked it backwards in that day and age… shortcuts made by cadets/midshipmen seems to feel like a more modern occurance. Probably thinking this way because an old KP grad from 1962 was sailing with me once and he became quite shocked and disappointed when he found out our ca…

I should have used the term “pencil-whipped” but I was thinking it applied more to checklists not to filling out forms. I couldn’t think of any term equivalent to gundeck. I sometimes tell people to “just high-speed it” meaning don’t waste time looking for information that’s hard to find and is li…

[image] ShooterMcGavin: an old KP grad from 1962 was sailing with me once and he became quite shocked and disappointed when he found out our cadet was working sights backwards. My celestial instructor told us about when he was a cadet he was constantly trying to get his rights to work out to …

While “pencil-whipped” would have worked I personally liked the colloquialism of “Gundecked/Gundecking”. I suppose it just goes to show I am an old-timer.

I just use “bullshitted” so no one is confused about what is going on.

Don’t get us started. [image] Dealing with BS Scuttlebutt Here is a link to the essay On Bullshit by Harry Frankfurt My understanding of what KPC and Frankfurt are saying is that BS is when someone is explaining their own concept of how real things in the real world wo…

[image] Chief_Seadog: While “pencil-whipped” would have worked I personally liked the colloquialism of “Gundecked/Gundecking”. I suppose it just goes to show I am an old-timer. It does sound better than lying in writing. :grinning:

I don’t know of any gun deck on a British warship that didn’t carry guns and ships were designated by the number of gun decks that they had. A 1st rate ship of the line had three decks below the main deck with progressively heavier calibre the lower one went. Midshipmen lived in the gunroom rather …

In the Navy we used it usually to mean signing off for maintenance that wasn’t done.

Term: Gundecked / Gundecking

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Term: Gundecked / Gundecking

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