My friend Jamie sent a link today to a music video made by officers of the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53). It’s set to the parody rap song I’m on a Boat by The Lonely Island (YouTube). The John Paul Jones version is a pretty good copy, considering the guys were limited in their props.
This video and another version of I’m on a Boat made by different sailors goes to show you what pulling six months worth of 12-hour shifts can do to one’s sanity. It’s a long way back from the Persian Gulf to California and sailors get a little slap happy. This is the kind of thing I would’ve put together on the end of a deployment if I’d had a MacBook back then.
Check out this version of Pump It by the VAW-116 Sunkings and the British Royal Navy doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Good times.
Warning: some videos contain explicit language.
Update 7 Oct 2009: The John Paul Jones video is also available here.
What? No link love?
What’s a brother gotta do to get some of that MT.net Google juice? 😉
Dude! – “This video has been removed by the user”
Did you slashdot them?
As if!
The gentlemen probably decided that posting a video of them dancing around was a CLM (career-limiting move). Personally, I think it reflects favorably upon the Navy. I hope the Navy brass sees it the same way.