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.”

Wetting-Down by Worst of the best August 28, 2019

Wetting Down 

Noun; American
An event involving three moderately endowed men in which they travel to a dive bar or foreign equivalent, and spend their promotion pay on alcohol for all in attendance. At the event the three gentlemen wear only White T-shirts and thongs and wrestle each other inside a kiddie pool filled with strawberry flavored water-soluble personal lubricant while the guests poor ice cold beer over them.

"Oh my god,Are you going to James, Dakota and Ian's wetting down? I hear they're having the Coors light flown in fresh!"

Wetting Down by Jimmy Carter the Peanut Man May 14, 2022