The FReeper Foxhole - Military Humor, Part 1 - February 5th, 2005

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[snippy_about_it]

...never mind, I'll write my Homeowner's Assoc. instead.

LOL. Might as well! Good to see you at the start of the day. ;-)

That Navy coffee recipe looks more dangerous than Darksheare's.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Grzegorz 246.

Only in Holywood. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

I'm not 100% yet but I have faith I'm headed there! It's chilly here and a bit overcast but no fog for a change. Hoping for the sun to come out soon.

It's wonderful that you still have those letters.

[SAMWolf]

:-)

A lot better than old Madie Halfbright.

[snippy_about_it]

60 degrees! Enjoy the day, we're thinking we might have an early spring here.

[SAMWolf]

Morning w_over_w

Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for 5 to six hours before drinking it.

Take my word, Navy coffee beats the hell out of Army Coffee.

[SAMWolf]

LOL!

In the Navy
Yes, you can sail the seven seas
In the Navy
Yes, you can put your mind at ease
In the Navy
Come on now people make a stand
In the Navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the Navy
Come on protect the motherland
In the Navy
Come on and join your fellow man
In the Navy
Come on people and make a stand
In the Navy
In the Navy

[SAMWolf]

We're supposed to get into the upper 40's

[w_over_w]

Good to see you at the start of the day.

And you too! You sound rested!

[alfa6]

Rocky and I racked up the last of the leaves from in front of the trailer yesterday. Side yard is next.

Hmmm, did you see yesterdays thread by chnace??? :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[alfa6]

Up in time for lunch bump on the Freeper Foxhole

How goes the bird seed business, eh?

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Good mornin gladies and gent. Flag-o-Gidget.

[Darksheare]

LOL!

Advance party (Artillery): Walk the perimeter of a field and note all items that are out of place like female medics out for a stroll and OpFor, report back what you have found without having a radio to do so.

Do the above security sweep again, this time stay out of sight while staying in sight of the Observer Controllers so they can grade your performance.
Listen to the head OC gripe about the importance of stealth and how you'd be dead if he was the OpFor at the moment.

Watch OC return fifteen minutes later acting as advance party for OpFor.

Emplace the howitzer perfectly level in the middle of gopher central +/-10 mils cant.
Ensure the howitzer is not over 90 mils left/right cant.

Do this with the OpFor milling about and smoking in plain sight of you.

Position improvement, your second life.

Roll out the concertina wire, without shredding your uniform, build and emplace machine gun bunkers, string tanglefoot, dig trenches, and make a fire base, then take down the howitzers to move to another position and do the above all over again.

Dig the powder pit where the SOP says to do so.
Try not to laugh when the Captain falls into the powder pit and screams about the pit being out where people walk.

Emplace howitzer as per training, writing down all azimuth numbers, get the aiming circle and safety circle lay and safe go ahead, and then discover you are 1900 mils out from the azimuth you should be on.

;-)
There's more, but I don't wanna run over long.

[Iris7]

The Navy calls shipboard bunks, like in your photo, "racks".

I notice that the modern racks in the photo are amazingly roomy. I remember them being much more crowded.

The aisle ways between the racks were so narrow that two people could not pass each other. Even one person had to turn sideways to move between the two rows of racks. Maybe 16" wide aisle ways. (Most places on the boat were like that. Wherever you went there was only passage for one person at a time unless you made room for each other by bracing against a wall ("bulkhead"), a sort of dance that one learned quickly.)

The racks used to be much narrower than those in the picture. If you lay with your hands at your sides your arms would fall off the rack on both sides, since the rack was not wide enough for this.

And last but not least, the vertical distance between the racks was very much less. If the fellow above you had not fully "triced up" the canvas bottom of his rack, and therefore his behind hung down too far, it was impossible to turn over without hitting him in the rear with your hips.

In the photo of the guys in the racks, as I recollect it, in the room available there would be at least five racks high, and not three. Where there is a single row three racks high there would have been two rows of narrower racks instead. Where three guys are in the photo there used to be ten.

The old salts talked about being told about the hammock days by the really old salts they knew in their youth. Entire crews slept in hammocks, each individual in his hammock that he had hung up in the mess deck. At five AM everybody up, and hammocks stowed until ten PM. Remember that each one of those tightly packed guys had a watch, had duty at a job, from 8 PM to Midnight, or Midnight to 4 AM, or from 4 AM to 8 AM. Oncoming watches had to be awakened a half hour early. People coming and going all night long.

Spent months at a time never sleeping at the same time two nights running and never sleeping more than four hours straight. Pretty much everybody would skip a meal or two a day in order to nap anywhere it was warm.

[Professional Engineer]

Airman! Bring me a bucket of prop wash.

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather

[Professional Engineer]

The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.

ROFL

[Professional Engineer]

Hiya Sam

[Samwise]

If you guys don't hear from me again, please send help.

The hobbit lass turned 13 and is having a sleepover tonight. A house full of teenage girls...we are frightened. Hubby and I plan to lock oursleves in our room with DVDs and a fire extinguisher. :^)

[Professional Engineer]

with DVDs and a fire extinguisher. :^)

Is this what we have to look forward to in 12 years? ROFL