Polywogs No More

300 years ago in the Royal Navy, we would have been dragged through the ocean from a yardarm and nearly drowned.

Even today, in the United States Navy, we would have been obliged to drink and eat unspeakable concoctions in the service of Lord Neptune.

But we were not compelled to any of those fates.

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