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HOW TO TELL YOU'RE AN OLD SOLDIER... (Are you an Old Soldier Like ME?)
http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html ^ | ???????

Posted on 12/23/2015 5:14:31 PM PST by SandRat

Have a Look and Feal Old. http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html


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1 posted on 12/23/2015 5:14:31 PM PST by SandRat
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That’s “Old Soldier”. http://www.nbc-links.com/oldsoldiers2.html


2 posted on 12/23/2015 5:17:13 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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64. You remember beer machines in the barracks/dayroom.

LOL, I had forgotten!

We also used to buy beer from "Comrade" manning the boiler room in Germany.

3 posted on 12/23/2015 5:23:06 PM PST by PROCON (Merry CHRISTmas!)
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Thank you very much. Definitely a trip down this old soldier’s memory lane.

During the 70’s the “Fifty Staters” at Graf was always ‘off limits’ for my battalion. Of course, the battalion had its own beer hall in tent city at Camp Normandy.


4 posted on 12/23/2015 5:30:32 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Right on the cusp. I remember more than a few, but more than half are from (just) before my time.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 5:36:38 PM PST by Little Pig
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“You can remember going to the Club at Graf, drinking, and watching Margaret.”
“You personally know Margaret.”

And the squadron commander tipping Margaret to dance in your lap because you were the new squadron S-2, who joined it while they were at February gunnery.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 5:38:21 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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I must be a really old soldier, I remember a while lot of that stuff. Don’t think I ever met Margret, tho.


7 posted on 12/23/2015 5:44:54 PM PST by jstaff
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Not if you imbibed enough to hang your Branch ascot from behind the Bar.
8 posted on 12/23/2015 5:47:42 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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How to tell you’re an old soldier...

Your CO wasn’t the lesbian who married your transgendered DDI at boot camp.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 5:50:25 PM PST by Organic Panic
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Twenty-seven miles from the stockade!

"If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape
and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy."

10 posted on 12/23/2015 5:54:01 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
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PT in combat boots

Strippers at the clubs on post

Singing dirty jodie calls were encouraged and expected

Wall to Wall counseling was accepted practice and used as much as non-judicial punishment

EDREs were a rush

Starched fatigues and jump boots

Conducting Pay Officer duties.

IG inspections were a bitch


11 posted on 12/23/2015 6:04:01 PM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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And if you remember the smell of diesel fuel and crap in a burn barrel.


12 posted on 12/23/2015 6:06:26 PM PST by jstaff
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I remember too many of those so I guess I am one.

My first platoon was a bunch of slovenly misfits and I loved almost every one of them and I miss them to this day. They were sure tolerant of the new Butterbar. They were patient teachers.


13 posted on 12/23/2015 6:07:55 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Gamma Goat.

When I was a boot that was the thing I got to drive right out of the chute. What a POS. 3-71(?) Detroit Diesel 3 cylinder 2 stroke. It beat walking I suppose.

Word on the street was Lady Bird Johnson owned a lot of stock in the company that made that piece of crap.

The military industrial complex cashing in on the backs of normal Americans once again.


14 posted on 12/23/2015 6:16:43 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik ("Girls like to marry a military man - he already knows how to take orders.")
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Thanks for the ping. Not much in this listing for an old Air Force navigator.


15 posted on 12/23/2015 6:17:48 PM PST by zot
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Short Arm Inspections.


16 posted on 12/23/2015 6:21:25 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Definitely remember enough of that list to qualify for “Old Soldier” but didn’t experience a lot of the training areas in West Germany because my unit went to Greece to fire missiles into the ocean. I did one round of being a safety officer for two artillery battalions in the group going through ARTEP at Graf. It was to be my only time around an 8” howitzer or 175mm gun. Now I see those in city parks and in front of VFW halls on static display.


17 posted on 12/23/2015 6:21:26 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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Gamma Goat.

When I was going through LANCE Missile Officer training we had those and were told they were part of the MTOE for a firing platoon. Fortunately, by the time I got to a unit, the US Govt needed to bail out Chrysler Corp. so we were given Dodge pickups instead as an M-880. It was a maintenance nightmare due the brand new concept of the electronic ignition. We learned to carry a replacement ignition module for a quick change-over when it crapped out.

18 posted on 12/23/2015 6:28:36 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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9. You remember when Saddam Hussein was our loyal ally.

Don't buy into the horsesh!t. This is a left-wing propaganda talking point. It was never the case.

19 posted on 12/23/2015 6:30:33 PM PST by Castlebar
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To: SandRat


20 posted on 12/23/2015 6:35:36 PM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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