When
I was a child, a friend of mine showed me an Army typewriter, which typed in
all capital letters. The tradition goes
back to the 1850s, when teletype machines used only capitals. Now the Navy has become the first branch of
the military to dispense with the tradition.
Of course, it used all caps to announce Navy personnel are
AUTHORIZED TO USE STANDARD,
MIXED-CASE CHARACTERS IN THE BODY OF NAVY ORGANIZATIONAL MESSAGES
As
someone I know who spent time in the Navy remarked, “There’s the right way, the
wrong way, and the Navy way.”
Ha! Military life IS a whole different world.
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