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Jody, Every Soldier's friend.(Humor)
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Posted on 03/03/2004 3:13:09 PM PST by Little Bill

When I was a young trooper, there was a person that we were all aquainted with,his name was Jody. Jody moved in with our girl friends, ate steak, smoked our cigars, wrecked our car, drank our booze, and spent our allotment check.

Jody seems to be an Army thing, the Germans have Billibob, the Frogs have the white flag, the Air Force their Mothers, the Marines their Right Hands, and the Navy each other.

Jody goes back, in Army tradition, at least a hundred and Fifiy years, Who is Jody? Does he look like John F'n Kerry, the black guys in my Units seemed to have have a Jody problem more than, say, those, Polish,from Pittsburg, who is Jody?


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I want to know who Jody is!
1 posted on 03/03/2004 3:13:10 PM PST by Little Bill
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To: Little Bill
I don't get it.
2 posted on 03/03/2004 3:14:17 PM PST by Xenalyte (I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)
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To: Xenalyte
>>I don't get it.

Souds like a personal problem ;)
3 posted on 03/03/2004 3:15:08 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (<a href="http://moveon.org" target="blank">Communist front group</a>)
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To: Xenalyte
He's a character in several Army cadences.
4 posted on 03/03/2004 3:15:32 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Little Bill
We Marines had a Jody!

In fact, when we learned Pugil Stick fighting, we learned the JODY KILLER technique!!

Fortunately, I never had to use it.


I always thought it was a 60's thing, that name Jody is so feminine, I cannot imagine someone naming their child Jody earlier than the 50's.
5 posted on 03/03/2004 3:15:44 PM PST by RaceBannon (John Kerry is Vietnam's Benedict Arnold: Former War Hero turned Traitor)
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To: Little Bill
http://www.army.mil/soldiers/june95/p52.html
6 posted on 03/03/2004 3:16:35 PM PST by nobody_knows (<a href="http://http://www.michaelmoore.com/" target="_blank">moral coward)
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Stupid modem's - occasionally drops the letter "n"...Sounds...
7 posted on 03/03/2004 3:16:40 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (<a href="http://moveon.org" target="blank">Communist front group</a>)
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To: Little Bill
AND the Navy didn't Have each other" BTW...We "HAD" Doggies!!
8 posted on 03/03/2004 3:18:10 PM PST by nobody_knows (<a href="http://http://www.michaelmoore.com/" target="_blank">moral coward)
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To: Little Bill
Here's ya some Jody info...

http://users.erols.com/loriryan/history.html


..."Nobody seems to know for sure when the Duckworth Chant became known as the jody call. In fact, nobody's even sure who "Jody" is. In the many cadence calls that disparage Jody's name, Jody is the guy back home, trying to court a soldier's wife or girlfriend or sister. And as more women joined the ranks, Jody also came to represent the woman out to seduce a husband or boyfriend.

In either case, Jody is a civilian enjoying the comforts of home while the soldier sweats it out in the field or overseas. And soldiers love to console themselves by singing about Jody: "Ain't no use in going home; Jody's got your girl and gone. Ain't no use in feeling blue; Jody's got your sister, too. Ain't no use in lookin' back; Jody's got your Cadillac..."
9 posted on 03/03/2004 3:18:13 PM PST by dandelion
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To: RaceBannon
BATTLEGROUND, that great post war film about the 101st in the Bulge ends with James Whitmore as the "crusty old sgt." leading what's left of his platoon to the rear as fresh troops pass. He calls cadence that tells the story of "Jody". Where it came from pre-1940s I don't know.
10 posted on 03/03/2004 3:20:32 PM PST by wtc911 (I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead.)
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To: Little Bill

Take your choice of Jodys....

11 posted on 03/03/2004 3:20:39 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Little Bill
Ain't no use in going back,
Jody's got your Cadillac,

Ain't no use in going home,
Jody's got your girl and gone
12 posted on 03/03/2004 3:25:09 PM PST by SAMWolf (I'd love to help you out. Which way did you come in?)
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To: Little Bill
Thank you very much..I don't need any help spending my hubby's allotment checks...LOL
13 posted on 03/03/2004 3:25:43 PM PST by mystery-ak (*The cause of freedom is in good hands*....you betcha, Mr. President!)
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To: SAMWolf
When I went through USMC boot, we had a guy in our platoon whose best friend actually was named Jody, and he really did move in on his girlfriend.
14 posted on 03/03/2004 3:28:45 PM PST by Riley
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To: RaceBannon; ElectricStrawberry
Electric and I were at a Town Hall meeting Last Night and one of the people there was named Jody, not a good name in my time, besides the Marines were always famious for the solitary sin.
15 posted on 03/03/2004 3:30:30 PM PST by Little Bill (I can't take another rat in the White House at my age.)
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To: Little Bill
Solitary Sin??

AHEM???

Now, I have seen some beautiful WM's, but most of them, well, the ARMY Guys looked better than them, so, what did you expect?
16 posted on 03/03/2004 3:31:43 PM PST by RaceBannon (John Kerry is Vietnam's Benedict Arnold: Former War Hero turned Traitor)
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To: Riley
See!! The DI's were right all along!! Man that would suck.
17 posted on 03/03/2004 3:32:05 PM PST by SAMWolf (I'd love to help you out. Which way did you come in?)
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To: Little Bill
Ahem ...
The Navy, with deference to our esteemed USMC D.I.s, calls them 'jodies' as well. If they got it from the Army, then props to y'all as well.

And as I recall, more often than not, it was the AF guys hanging out at our clubs as the ships deployed, who started moving in on the 'WestPAc Widows' as soon as the stern lights began to fade on the horizon ...
18 posted on 03/03/2004 3:32:44 PM PST by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: r9etb
Consider posting those two pictures in reverse order. It would then account for Jody #1's expression. Caption it "Mr. French, Mr. French, come and see, come and see!"
19 posted on 03/03/2004 3:35:57 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Not Fonda Kerry")
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To: nobody_knows
SFC Anita Jordan

There weren't no Anita's in any unit I was in, those with bumps hid behind a fence, those that didn't have bumps were in LBJ.

20 posted on 03/03/2004 3:37:48 PM PST by Little Bill (I can't take another rat in the White House at my age.)
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