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Re: Officer on deck

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:29:04 GMT

keep in mind...you drop everything if it can be done so in a safe manner

Re: Officer on deck

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:30:22 GMT

brilliant reply, I couldn't agree more

Re: Officer on deck

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:36:04 GMT

I'm guessing the person you are talking about is a superior officer of the people and of the person who saluted him with the "officer on deck".

If that is the case, then the person who said "officer on deck" was the one who was informing everybody else in the room or vicinity that a superior officer has just entered the vicinity. "Officer on deck" is used to call everyone in the vicinity to stop and drop whatever they are doing and stand in attention to give respect to the officer who has just entered.

Hope this helps. =D

C/COL H. WONG
Battalion Commander
Citizen Army Training
Philippines

Re: Officer on deck

coffeecustard — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:52:28 GMT

Actually they're a bunch of federal marshals from the Witness Protection Agency transporting a witness (the bad guys are trying to kill him before he testifies)... They're sort of stranded and their leader jumps into another car and drives off so they think he got cold feet on them. When he eventually returns he is greeted with "officer on deck" by one of them.

It's a scene from this stupid horror flick, Route 666.

Re: Officer on deck

Grammar Geek — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:19:49 GMT

Hi Coffeecustard,

Can you give a little more context? Are you on a naval ship? More information would be helpful. Could it have been "officer of the deck"?

Officer on deck

coffeecustard — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:02:57 GMT

Hey everybody. Any idea what "officer on deck" means when used as a salutation?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...