Quote Originally Posted by snipe481
Freedomlover, no, snipe is a slang work for a Hull Technician in the navy. If you look at a telephone key pad 481 would = HT1 which is my rate. I know its silly but no one has ever been able to figure it out.
Ah. But a snipe is also an Engineman on a diesel submarine, and when I saw '481' (my first boat was SS-481) I was sure I had found a shipmate. But you are Navy. That's good enough for me.

Freedomlover, TM-1 (SS) USN, and SFC USARNG