Damned Navy has all the fun.
Plus they have AC and ice cream.
Pfftthh...their Ice Cream sucks!
The Air Force, now they got it good.
"Damned Navy has all the fun. Plus they have AC and ice cream."
So do the Marines!!!
We (Marine rifle company) had been in the bush for 3 weeks, deep in NVA land above Hue on search and destroy... being re-supplied each evening by choppers from off-shore. Everything we had was on our backs. It was hot, we were low on water and ammo.
Gunny slogged along putting one foot in front of the other, shotgun in one hand, radio to his ear ordering rats, ammo and water for sundown delivery. One of the troops hollered " hey Gunny, get us some ice cream".
About the time we settled in to our perimeter defense and got the word the choppers were on their way, one of our patrols got ambushed on its way to their own ambush site and the NVA began to pound us with mortar, rocket and small arms. It was a daily event, not unexpected, but the atmosphere got unhealthy in a hurry and it meant the LZ was going to be hot... we absolutely had to have the re-supply, particularly the ammo and water.
During what appeared to be a lull in the action the chopper dipped low over the tree line, made a pass at the LZ and released the external load as near as he could to the smoke marker. Water cans, ammo, cartons of "C" rats splattered on the ground. No big deal, we were used to this.
But now there was strawberry ice cream, mostly melted during the 30 min flight from the LPH deck, covering everything... and no covers on the cardboard containers.
Gunny had repeated the "order" from one of the troops and the Navy had simply filled the order. You should have seen the troops swarm over that LZ scooping up what they could of the ice cream in their bare hands. What a mess!... but what a morale lifter!!!