<p>11 General Orders of a Sentry:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>To take charge of this post and all government property in view.</p></li>
<li><p>To walk my post in a military manner, keeping always on the alert, and observing everything that takes place within sight or hearing.</p></li>
<li><p>To report all violations of orders I am instructed to enforce.</p></li>
<li><p>To repeat all calls from posts more distant from the guard house than my own.</p></li>
<li><p>To quit my post only when properly relieved.</p></li>
<li><p>To receive, obey, and pass on to the sentry who relieves me, all orders from the commanding officer, officer of the day, and officers and noncommissioned officers of the guard only.</p></li>
<li><p>To talk to no one except in the line of duty.</p></li>
<li><p>To give the alarm in case of fire or disorder.</p></li>
<li><p>To call the petty officer of the watch/corporal of the guard in any case not covered by instructions.</p></li>
<li><p>To salute all officers and all colors and all standards not cased.</p></li>
<li><p>To be especially watchful at night, and during the time for challenging, to challenge all persons on or near my post and to allow no one to pass without proper authority.</p></li>
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<p>5 Basic Responses:</p>
<p>Sir/Ma'am Yes Sir/Ma'am </p>
<p>Sir/Ma'am No Sir/Ma'am </p>
<p>Sir/Ma'am No Excuse Sir/Ma'am </p>
<p>Sir/Ma'am I'll find out Sir/Ma'am </p>
<p>Sir/Ma'am Aye Aye Sir/Ma'am </p>
<p>Navy Blue and Gold:</p>
<p>Now colleges from sea to sea
May sing of colors true,
But who has better right then we
To hoist a symbol hue?
For sailors brave in battle fair
Since fighting days of old,
Have proved a sailor's right to wear
The Navy Blue and Gold. </p>
<p>So hoist our colors, hoist them high,
And vow allegiance true,
So long as sunset gilds the sky
Above the ocean blue,
Unlowered shall those colors be
Whatever fate they meet,
So glorious in victory,
Triumphant in defeat. </p>
<p>Four years together by the Bay
Where Severn joins the tide,
Then by the Service called away,
We've scattered far and wide;
But still when two or three shall meet,
And old tales be retold,
From low to highest in the Fleet
Will pledge the Blue and Gold. </p>
<p>Anchor's Aweigh:</p>
<p>Service Version:
Anchors Aweigh my boys
Anchors Aweigh
Farewell to college joys
We sail at break of day day day day
Through our last night on shore
Drink to the foam
Until we meet once more
Here's wishing you a happy voyage home! </p>
<p>Football Version:
Stand Navy down the field
Sails set to the sky
We'll never change our course
So Army you steer shy-y-y-y
Roll up the score, Navy
Anchors Aweigh
Sail Navy down the field
And sink the Army, sink the Army grey! </p>
<p>USNA Version:
Blue of the Seven Seas
Gold of God's great sun
Let these our colors be
Till all of time be done-n-n-ne
By Severn shore we learn
Navy's stern call
Faith, courage, service true
With honor over, honor over all. </p>
<p>The Marines' Hmyn:</p>
<p>From the Halls of Montezuma
To the Shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land and sea;
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean;
We are proud to claim the title
of United States Marine. </p>
<p>Our flag's unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in ev'ry clime and place
Where we could take a gun;
In the snow of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes;
You will find us always on the job--
The United States Marines. </p>
<p>Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines. </p>
<p>Navy Hymn:</p>
<p>Eternal Father strong to save
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave
Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee
For those in peril on the sea! </p>
<p>Eternal Father, grant, we pray,
To all Marines, both night and day,
The courage, honor, strength, and skill
Their land to serve, thy law fulfill;
Be thou the shield forevermore
From every peril to the Corps</p>
<p>Table Salts:</p>
<p>How Long Have You Been In The Navy?</p>
<p>All me bloomin' life, sir! Me mother was a mermaid, me father was King Neptune. I was born on the crest of a wave and rocked in the cradle of the deep. Seaweed and barnacles are me clothes. Every tooth in me head is a marlinspike; the hair on me head is hemp. Every bone in me body is spar, and when I spits, I spits tar! I'se hard, I is, I am, I are?</p>
<p>Why Didn't You Say Sir?</p>
<p>Sir, sir is subservient word surviving from the surly days of old Serbia, when certain serfs, too ignorant to remember their lord's names, yet too servile to blaspheme them, circumvented the situation by surrogating the subservient word sir, by which I now belatedly address a certain senior cirroped who correctly surmised that I was syrupy enough to say sir after every word I said, sir.</p>
<p>What's Up?</p>
<p>Fidelity is up and obedience is down on our bayonet buckles.</p>
<p>How's The Cow?</p>
<p>Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk. The lacteal fluid from the female of bovine species is highly prolific to the (approx. number of glasses of milk remaining in cartons) nth degree.</p>
<p>What Time Is It?</p>
<p>Sir, I am greatly embarrassed and deeply humiliated that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond my control, the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of my chronometer are in such inaccord with the great sidereal movement with which time is generally reckoned that I cannot with any degree of accuracy state the correct time, sir. But without fear of being too greatly in error, I will state that it is about _____ minutes, _____ seconds, and _____ ticks past _____ bells.</p>
<p>Man in the Arena:</p>
<p>It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doers of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither viectory or defeat. ---Theodore Roosevelt</p>