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To: Citizen Tom Paine

I thought it was General Infantry.


25 posted on 08/26/2007 11:39:33 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow (FR Member ItsOurTimeNow: Declared Anathema by the Council of Trent)
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To: ItsOurTimeNow

Naw, it’s Government Issue, or maybe General Issue. It was kind of a joke to call the troops GI. They actually were issued by their mothers. But while in the army, everything they had was issued to them by the government.


33 posted on 08/26/2007 1:36:34 PM PDT by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)
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