[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Cooking, cleaning, laudry, sewing, you learn it all in the service.

“Six days shalt work as thou art able
the seventh, scrub the desk and holystone the cable”

[philman_36]

Cooking, cleaning, laudry, sewing, you learn it all in the service.

BS! In boot camp I didn't have to buy cigarettes for a while because I swapped sewing on patches, etc. for packs of cigarettes.
We had one guy would couldn't even fold his own clothes and he was 25 years old.
He cost us dearly in locker inspections even after six weeks of many of us trying to help him out.
We ironed creases into his one set of inspection uniform and he still screwed it up.

You're taught it, but some people never learned from the teaching.

[LonePalm]

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -- Robert Heinlein, USNA class of 1929

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)