Just two days after swearing in as US Navy mess attendants, the newest bunch of Chamorro recruits assembled that morning on the deck of the USS Barnes in Apra Harbor to receive their first assignments. It was early 1940.
The American officer looked at one of them and said, "You are now the Captain of the Head."
The other Chamorro men kept quiet, of course, but they were stunned. How could this Chamorro guy be promoted to captain in just two days, and the head of something? Maybe this guy was smarter than they first thought.
A few days later they finally understood when they saw this "captain" cleaning toilets on the ship.
Only then did they learn that "head" was Navy slang for the toilet.
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