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That’s “Old Soldier”. http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html
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.
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.
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.
Don't buy into the horsesh!t. This is a left-wing propaganda talking point. It was never the case.
I can remember driving my Marine Corps issue van to the NCO club for lunch and washing my lunch down with a cold beer. My guess is that would be a career ending move today, but that was the norm back in the day.
‘You sang cadence about the temperature of a certain part of the anatomy of a female Eskimo.’
I wasn’t much of a soldier but I am old and remember that, and about half of the rest.
Only because duty in Germany makes up so much of the list.
the Micky Mouse Boots
Remember any??
You jumped MC1-1B chutes on a mass tactical jump.
Can’t relate to clubs, alcohol or passes. I was a 13B in the Guard.
But Mickey Mouse boots, yes, and snowshoes and more. Don’t forget to loosen those Mickey Mouse boot valves before mounting up (re. altitude and squished feet). And the dayroom was only for nights watching over those who didn’t make it through initial training.
Even though I’m getting old, I must be new. ;-)
You remember when there used to be enlisted, NCO and Officer Clubs.
And nobody was spying on you while you got s4itfaced.
You’re an old soldier if the thought of censoring #168 never occurred to you.