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Posted on 12/23/2015 5:14:31 PM PST by SandRat
Have a Look and Feal Old. http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html
That’s “Old Soldier”. http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html
LOL, I had forgotten!
We also used to buy beer from "Comrade" manning the boiler room in Germany.
Thank you very much. Definitely a trip down this old soldier’s memory lane.
During the 70’s the “Fifty Staters” at Graf was always ‘off limits’ for my battalion. Of course, the battalion had its own beer hall in tent city at Camp Normandy.
Right on the cusp. I remember more than a few, but more than half are from (just) before my time.
“You can remember going to the Club at Graf, drinking, and watching Margaret.”
“You personally know Margaret.”
And the squadron commander tipping Margaret to dance in your lap because you were the new squadron S-2, who joined it while they were at February gunnery.
I must be a really old soldier, I remember a while lot of that stuff. Don’t think I ever met Margret, tho.
How to tell you’re an old soldier...
Your CO wasn’t the lesbian who married your transgendered DDI at boot camp.
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PT in combat boots
Strippers at the clubs on post
Singing dirty jodie calls were encouraged and expected
Wall to Wall counseling was accepted practice and used as much as non-judicial punishment
EDREs were a rush
Starched fatigues and jump boots
Conducting Pay Officer duties.
IG inspections were a bitch
And if you remember the smell of diesel fuel and crap in a burn barrel.
I remember too many of those so I guess I am one.
My first platoon was a bunch of slovenly misfits and I loved almost every one of them and I miss them to this day. They were sure tolerant of the new Butterbar. They were patient teachers.
Gamma Goat.
When I was a boot that was the thing I got to drive right out of the chute. What a POS. 3-71(?) Detroit Diesel 3 cylinder 2 stroke. It beat walking I suppose.
Word on the street was Lady Bird Johnson owned a lot of stock in the company that made that piece of crap.
The military industrial complex cashing in on the backs of normal Americans once again.
Thanks for the ping. Not much in this listing for an old Air Force navigator.
Short Arm Inspections.
Definitely remember enough of that list to qualify for “Old Soldier” but didn’t experience a lot of the training areas in West Germany because my unit went to Greece to fire missiles into the ocean. I did one round of being a safety officer for two artillery battalions in the group going through ARTEP at Graf. It was to be my only time around an 8” howitzer or 175mm gun. Now I see those in city parks and in front of VFW halls on static display.
When I was going through LANCE Missile Officer training we had those and were told they were part of the MTOE for a firing platoon. Fortunately, by the time I got to a unit, the US Govt needed to bail out Chrysler Corp. so we were given Dodge pickups instead as an M-880. It was a maintenance nightmare due the brand new concept of the electronic ignition. We learned to carry a replacement ignition module for a quick change-over when it crapped out.
Don't buy into the horsesh!t. This is a left-wing propaganda talking point. It was never the case.
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