It was 1984, I was fresh out of bootcamp and stationed in Long Beach California. I had picked a school to go to, but as circumstances would have it, I got booted from the school and sent directly to the fleet. I was 18 at the time. Slim build, short brown hair and stood about 5ā9. I also had an attitude. Not a bad attitude, but I was basically a street smart kid and could see things coming before they did. At least most of the time.
Before bootcamp I had fucked a good many girls maybe 10 or so by then and like all young men, I was constantly horny. I donāt consider myself gay in the least, but I admit that Iāve beat my dick off thinking about being fucked in the ass or fucking another guy before. Then again, Iāve beat off thinking about every kind of scenario you could imagine. Once years ago, I let a boy suck my dick. I was suppose to give him a blow job after I came, but I felt dirty after I blew my load in his mouth and ran away.
Before I came though, I wanted to suck his dick and I wanted fucked. I masturbated to that scene many times. Often my fantasies involved me being either submissive or dominant depending on my mood at the moment. Back to the story. I arrived at my new home, a ship called the USS Raven. It was a rescue ship and was only about a 100 feet long. Small compared to battleships, cruisers and carriers. It had 90 enlisted men, me included and 6 officers.
When I arrived on board, I was shown my bunk and told that Iād be spending the next 3 months in the mess, washing dishes and whatever else needs done. It sucked, but every new enlisted guy has to serve in that position. The ship had just been through a major overhaul and we were not going to go to sea for at least 3 months. I settled in quickly and made new friends easily. During the time we were docked, we were on what they called tropical hours. Which meant basically, you report to the ship at 9 am and get off at 1 PM. It was ideal for the party life.
The Captain of ship was Mr. Silver. Now, if you havenāt been in the Navy or any military branch it goes like this. Officers and enlisted people are different. Enlisted guys had to salute these officer assholes and call them sir, all because they went to college. In my opinion, officers think they are better than enlisted men, because they are educated. This didnāt bother me to much unless the officer was an asshole. Iāve met very few officers who werenāt assholes though.
Now Captain Silver was a short fellow about 5ā7 or 8. Iād guess he was in his mid 30ās. Clean cut like all officers with a solid muscular body. I thought he was cocky. Rumor had it that he wanted to be in charge of a nuclear sub. It went with his personality if it was true, a power hungry asshole officer. Instead of a big warship though, he commanded this little rescue boat. I think he was bitter about it. The Captain liked to have these crew outings to build morale. He would plan events and expect the whole crew, enlisted and officers to show up and participate in whatever event he had planned.
Some of them were fun, especially the ones that had beer involved, but most were boring to me. He would have sporting tournaments and everyone would compete. Not everyone did, but if you didnāt compete, you were kind of labeled. We had a few chronic non-players, but most of the crew got into it. We had softball games, track races, basketball, volleyball things like that. Captain Silver was a fierce competitor too. He was always so cocky, but he always won or whatever team he played on won. Sometimes I wondered if the other officers planned it this way just to keep in his good graces.
Three or four months passed and our tropical hours came to an end. We would go to sea all day and dock in the harbor. We were testing the new equipment and a bunch of other bullshit. Basically it was boring as hell, scenic, but boring. It was Friday and we had docked in the Harbor for the weekend. I thought this was stupid as hell because you could see the fucking shore and all the people having a good time but no not us.
Right after dinner was served that Friday night, the Captain came over the loud speaker, saying that there was going to be a chess tournament in the mess deck at 1900 hour and all players should sign up. Iāve always been a good game player and chess was in my realm of expertise, so I signed up. I ended up winning all my matches and it came down to me, Captain Silver and the other 4 officers. I knocked out two officers and Captain Silver knocked out the other two. The enlisted men there were really rooting for me to win since chess was an intellectual game and I just busted these officers.
Actually they sucked at chess and I made them look dumb. All eyes were on me as I sat down with the Captain to start our match. He was good, but I could tell I was better soon after we started playing. The game took a little over an hour before I checkmated the Captain. He was a gracious loser, but he knew that he lost face, big time.
The next weekend we were in port, but I had weekend duty so I was stuck staying on the boat anyway. Saturday came and right after dinner, the Captain announced that there was going to be a backgammon game in the mess at 1900 hours. Now backgammon is really one of my favorite games. It has skill and luck and is great for gambling, which I am maybe too fond of. I signed up and proceeded to play. There wasnāt as many spectators as the chess match, I think only 20 people even knew how to play. I breezed through all my matches and found myself once again sitting across from Captain Silver.
He was real cocky tonight saying how I got lucky last week and a bunch of other trash talk. He said to make things even more interesting we should make a side wager. We agreed to play for a dollar a point. Now in backgammon playing for one dollar could cost you 192 dollars. It would be rare but it could happen. He started out by winning the first three games, just loving the fact that he was ahead. Then my luck changed and I won the next 5 straight and the tournament, plus 15 of his dollars. He was pissed and said he couldnāt believe my luck. He did say that I was the best player he ever went up against and that heād like to play me more sometime. I loved it and was the big hero again.