For two guys who were headed to the ... **SPOILERS**

I wonder how long your sentence would be back then. Did they have to stay until the end of their tour?

I don't have an answer for that one, I'm afraid.

I do know that brig time does not count toward your enlistment. IOW: time counted toward fulfilling your terms of enlistment (i.e. "time served") starts up again only upon your release from the brig. Any time you spend in there is, in effect, holding up your discharge even further and comes out of time you could have spent being a civilian, far from the Navy's grasp.

I know this from a guy who went into the Navy and called it "the stupidest thing I ever did." Fortunately, he was able to turn it around on the civilian side (and was making big bucks as an engineer last I heard of him).

He just didn't like the Navy, that's all. [shrugs]



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ol' Bake and Bilge sure did look excited about their upcoming tour in the brig.

That's not what they were happy about. They were excited for what would be waiting for them on the other side of their time in the brig and beyond. They were looking forward to the rest of their lives.


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Since it wasn't wartime, their sentences would probably have been measured in days. And of course there would be a guy in the brig with a harmonica or a concertina, and they'd have a great time singing and making up dances.

During WWII, my eighteen-year-old dad spent a couple of days in the brig for cracking wise to an officer on USS Hobby (DD-610). He did not enjoy the experience. His career was otherwise unblemished and his discharge after the war was honorable.

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