The US Marines have simply no idea of exactly how hard it is to find decent, reasonable dry cleaners, co-ed gyms, good restaurants, and quaint bars near our overseas bases. When I was stationed in Germany, very often the best vintages at the weinstube were sold out, and once a German girl said a very mean thing to me.
It once took me 4 days to get my tennis racquet restrung in Thailand. 4 whole days! What do the Marines know of war? War is Hell in the USAF. Sometimes, they even made us fly in aeroplanes, a couple of times while people on the ground actually shot at us. I couldn't see who they were. Probably Marines.
It once took me 4 days to get my tennis racquet restrung in Thailand. 4 whole days! What do the Marines know of war? War is Hell in the USAF. Sometimes, they even made us fly in aeroplanes, a couple of times while people on the ground actually shot at us. I couldn't see who they were. Probably Marines.
Yes well try telling someone you were a dog handler in Air Force in the '60s, they laugh for a while until you tell them you used to get dropped at dusk about 1000 meters from camp and were expected to patrol the jungle all night so the jarheads could get some sleep.
As a young troop on my first enlisted hitch, I was generally quite enthusiastic about getting out of the aircraft provided for our parachute jumps, since that meant I wouldn't have to be making a landing in the beasts, which was when most of the mishaps with them occurred. Later, while recovering from a few scratches and a couple of tropical visitors in my bloodstream, I was assigned light duty as an armourer, and got to see firsthand how the Air Force maintained the weapons with which they guarded their perimeter and flight line. THAT scared me, if it was any indication of how they also took care of the aircraft.
But you are correct about there being a particularly warm place in the Hell of warfare for the USAF, though most generally, as at altitude, it is a bitterly cold hell rather than the traditionally warmer clime usually associated with Gehenna. But there too they suffer the ignomy of being mistaken for charter bus drivers.
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