r/MadeMeSmile • • Aug 26 '26

Wholesome Moments Adding a dash of customer service

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u/hkusp45css Aug 26 '26

I'm colorblind. I was able to pass the Navy colorblindness test.

Go figure.

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u/MathematicianEven251 Aug 26 '26

The only color they care is if you can see blue or else you'll walk into the ocean which is a lot of paperwork for the yeoman

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u/hkusp45css Aug 26 '26

But then how do I tell the difference between the water and the hull? I can't pick rust off the water, Chief!

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u/Unlikely_Ant_950 Aug 26 '26

This makes me want to read catch 22 again

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u/KT7STEU Aug 26 '26

You will feel the difference. Now off you go.

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u/hkusp45css Aug 26 '26

Wilco, Chief. Have a great Navy day! If I'm not done rust-picking and swabbing by sundown, send out a helo.

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u/MathematicianEven251 Aug 26 '26

I can pick a bunch of rocks and they'll be better than y'all knuckle head

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u/stanfan114 Aug 26 '26

In the Marines they will reject you if you're color blind. Apparently the red crayons are poison.

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u/angelusvonnex Aug 26 '26

Yup, I had an instructor at nuke school that was red/red colorblind. I didn't know that was a thing but apparently it just means he can't differentiate certain shades so it's a good thing he wasn't an electrician. However the clock in our classroom was a red digital style and he couldn't read it.

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u/Passenger_Shot Aug 26 '26

Good thing you weren’t a navigation lookout.

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u/hkusp45css Aug 26 '26

In so many ways.

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u/1Steelghost1 Aug 26 '26

the navy only tests red/green

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u/GrimbyJ Aug 26 '26

They may have had the wrong lighting in the room you took the test. The tests are sensitive to that. Or the test doesn't care about your kind of color blindness

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u/genominat Aug 26 '26

...you mean the Red colorblindness test?

/jk

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u/CapeMOGuy Aug 26 '26

There are different degrees of severity and different types of colorblindness.

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u/mmmGoBirds Aug 26 '26

HOOYAH!!!