And while not nautical in nature, let's not forget the British bureaucrats and such who were dropping like flies in the malarial portions of Her Majesty's empire until they found that regular doses of quinine would help stave off the disease. And since quinine is such bitter stuff, a dash of gin with your "tonic" helped the medicine go down.
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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