常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

Petty Officer Third Class

curfewがひかれて、綱紀粛正が行われているはずですが、次から次によくもまあというくらいに不祥事が続いています。
Petty OfficerはAFNでおなじみの階級で、pettyが付いているので低い感じがしますが、どのあたりのものなのでしょうか。Minesotaくん、どうぞ。(UG)

PS なお、streakingは私が中学校?くらいにはやった言葉です。当時はうかれた人が真っ裸になって球場を走ったりしていました。懐かしい!

Another U.S. serviceman arrested after urinating naked at comic cafe

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa -- A U.S. serviceman has been nabbed for streaking and urinating inside a manga cafe here, just one day after the arrest of a U.S. Marine for alleged trespassing in Okinawa.

Petty Officer Third Class Oscar Hayes Wiygul III, 23, assigned to the nuclear aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka Naval Base here, stands accused of public indecency. Wiygul was apprehended at the manga cafe in Yokohama's Kanagawa Ward in the early morning hours of Nov. 23.

Wiygul has reportedly admitted to urinating in public but denied going naked.

According to the Kanagawa Police Station, Wiygul visited the cafe with a 21-year-old fellow U.S. serviceman and the pair signed into separate booths. Wiygul then took off his clothes inside his booth and started walking naked along the aisles and urinated inside the establishment at around 3:15 a.m., police said.

The case followed the Nov. 22 arrest of Private First Class Gregory Carson, 20, of the U.S. Marines' Camp Courtney in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, for alleged trespassing on the grounds of a private organization in the city.

http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20121123p2a00m0na009000c.html