A 70’s Actor Looks Back on His Hardest and Proudest Role: Veteran

larrywilcox.net ^ | November 6, 2012 | Sue Walsh

[Deplorable American1776]

CHiPs was a good show. I still watch it on Charge.

[DesertRhino]

Snicker....

[7thson]

Navy - Sailor

Marines - Marine

Army - Soldier

Air Force - Airman

[rexthecat]

He was a soldier. The article said he could use a slide rule and do math.

Now that's hilarious.

[rexthecat]

Greatly delighted by the computer's demonstrated capabilites thus shown, the examiners chose test the machines full capability by setting its intelligence level at its lowest level, pushed enter, and the computer immediately began singing, "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the shores..."

You're killing me here!

[dakine]

Correction:

Air Force - “Fore!”

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[spudville]

Navy Seabees are soldiers. Trained for combat as well as construction and demolition.

[ought-six]

“Bullship. No MARINE would EVER consent to being called a soldier. Rifleman, perhaps, as all Marines are in a basic sense, but soldier? Hell no.”

Did you even read my comment? No, you just like to be a contrarian.

I said in general, and roughly speaking. I know the difference between a Marine and an Army soldier, but the fact is generically ALL servicemen have been called — wrongly — “soldiers,” no matter their branch of service; just as the generic “troops” has been applied to all servicemen.

[ought-six]

“Navy Seabees are soldiers. Trained for combat as well as construction and demolition.”

That’s my point: No matter the branch of service, all servicemen are generically called “soldiers” or “troops.” I am not saying it is right — and, technically, it is NOT right — but that is how servicemen are referred to by people in general.

[ought-six]

Yes. But I said “generically,” and “generically” all servicemen are referred to as “soldiers” or “troops.” It’s how lazy people address servicemen.

I was USAF, and I was referred to as a soldier more times than I care to remember; I soon tired of trying to explain that in the USAF there are Airmen.

[7thson]

I’m career and retired Navy, and not once did anyone refer to me - or any of my fellow sailors - as a soldier.

[ought-six]

“I’m career and retired Navy, and not once did anyone refer to me - or any of my fellow sailors - as a soldier.”

Didn’t I say the possible exception was the Navy? Yes, I did.

The fact remains that many people who have never been in the military DO refer to all servicemen as soldiers, kind of like a generic. I was USAF, and I was called a soldier many times (once by my own aunt), even though I explained that the USAF has Airmen, not soldiers.

[CFW]

Oh! My sisters and I loved CHIPS! Dad hated it since he was more of a Gunsmoke or Bonanza guy.