Robert W. "Rocky" Rachau of Selinsgrove joined the Navy in 1971 as a 19-year-old who wanted to see the world. When he crossed the equator, he went from a pollygow to a shellback aboard the USS ...
WHILE SERVING in the Marine Corps, I was hazed twice – once when I became a corporal, and once when I crossed the equator aboard a naval vessel and graduated from a spineless “polliwog” to a ...
USS GARY, At Sea -- Seventy Sailors aboard the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Gary (FFG-51) went from being a pollywog to becoming a shellback during a ceremony aboard the ship Dec. 28, while ...
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