Posted on 12/23/2015 5:14:31 PM PST by SandRat
Rick’s Lounge. Fayetteville, NC, circa 1985
RLTW
I was a Marine, but went to an Army base for my final school. I was amazed to see beer machines in the barracks. Marines were not allowed to have any alcohol in their barracks. As I recall, any beer we purchased out of those machines had to be consumed in the day room.
I can remember driving my Marine Corps issue van to the NCO club for lunch and washing my lunch down with a cold beer. My guess is that would be a career ending move today, but that was the norm back in the day.
‘You sang cadence about the temperature of a certain part of the anatomy of a female Eskimo.’
I wasn’t much of a soldier but I am old and remember that, and about half of the rest.
Only because duty in Germany makes up so much of the list.
the Micky Mouse Boots
Remember any??
Had to drag those stupid things all over Colorado, but never allowed to wear them.
That's pretty funny.(But true).
After I got out of the Army, I worked as a civilian at APG. During one of the oil embargoes in the 80s when gas was $3.00+ per gallon, it seemed that all the GSA trucks suddenly appeared with big block V-8s.
My guess is they couldn't sell them in the civilian market so they foisted 'em off on the Government.
You jumped MC1-1B chutes on a mass tactical jump.
I was telling my wife about the beer vending machines in the barracks just tonight.
Can’t relate to clubs, alcohol or passes. I was a 13B in the Guard.
But Mickey Mouse boots, yes, and snowshoes and more. Don’t forget to loosen those Mickey Mouse boot valves before mounting up (re. altitude and squished feet). And the dayroom was only for nights watching over those who didn’t make it through initial training.
Even though I’m getting old, I must be new. ;-)
You remember when there used to be enlisted, NCO and Officer Clubs.
And nobody was spying on you while you got s4itfaced.
Strippers at the clubs on post
Er....Fashion Shows. Yeah, they were fashion shows.
You’re an old soldier if the thought of censoring #168 never occurred to you.
OK. I wrote FM 25-101. Well, really Carl Vuono wrote it, but I wrote down everything that he told me to say. When we were done, he sent me a hard cover edition. Training was really serious business.
Now they've probably been replaced by organic juice machines :-(
I actually liked them. Perhaps I had been in the field too long.
You were issued an Army serial number when you were enlisted or inducted.
If you were stationed at Fort Ignorance and you remember Dirty Alice.
Wow, thanks
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