Wetting-Down

1. Uniformed personnel spending preposterous amounts of money to celebrate a promotion; usually out of a slavish sense of obligation to tradition. 2. A Finical asteroid strike which ironically heralds the presumed increase in wealth and generally an outsized increase in responsibility. 3. A celebration of a shiny new object on your uniform.

Enlisted person 1: “Where are all the other officers today?”
Enlisted person 2: “Hospital.”
Enlisted person 1: “Why?”
Enlisted person 1 “Lieutenant (JG) C. is selling his blood plasma to pay his rent and the rest are there for severe dehydration”
Enlisted person 1: “What happened?”
Enlisted person 2 “Wetting-Down.”