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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/28/2013 7:56:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was in the USAF when Ronald Reagan was President. What was cool about the Air Force is we had a, "Palace Chase" program where all we had to do was serve one year active duty and spend the rest in the Air National Guard (2 years for each 1 year of active duty we signed up for), which I did. The Illinois Air National Guard paid for most of my tuition. It was the deal of the lifetime.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/28/2013 8:22:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		The military threads at Fet are pretty active. Might be nice to start one here. I wonder, what triggered you to remember your experience with a rucksack flop?

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/28/2013 8:23:53 PM   
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The military threads at Fet are pretty active. Might be nice to start one here. I wonder, what triggered you to remember your experience with a rucksack flop?


A buddy from my army days was in town and we got to talking about the good ol days.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/28/2013 8:30:28 PM   
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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/28/2013 10:25:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		I remember the beer vending machines in the barracks. And beards. And Dippity Do.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/29/2013 5:01:00 AM   
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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/29/2013 6:35:50 AM   
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Who remembers those times when a rucksack flop was better than sex?


Not in the Air Force. I remember 25 cent drinks at the NCO club and in a group of enterprising young airmen (with inside help from the women) flashing in one door of the Shaw Air Force Base WAF barracks, stopping only to grab a few offered panties and then flashing out the other end door before the Air Police showed up. This was the "Tactical" part of "Tactical Air Command" in our view.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/29/2013 10:10:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		In the Air Force we always had funny sayings about the base name. For example, I was stationed at Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL. The saying was, "Don't Shoot 'Em, Chanute 'Em!" I wish I remembered the sayings about the other bases but I forgot them.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 1:32:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Humped a 60 on the final hump for SOI at Camp Geiger back in the day...20 miles, full combat load.


I didn't bitch as much as the crew-served guys humping the motar base plates.... but I was trying.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 3:11:08 AM   
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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 7:34:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was lucky, I guess. Since I was a redleg, we weren't expected to do much groundpounding, but every year we had to do at five miler as part of ARTEP (or maybe because our top was a sadist). The furthest I humped my 60 was ten miles and I bitched about that damn thing every step of the way.

Another weird thing I remember was the guys in my unit all getting ladies nylons to to wear over our socks. We'd douse 'em in DEET to keep the ticks from going to town on our ankles when we were downrange. One pair would generally last a shooting season (May-October) before they crumbled to dust.

Warming BA-30s under our arms to get a little more juice from them because they all seemed to be worn out, even fresh from the box is another fond memory. Always an eye-opener on a small-hours fire mission. Driving trucks through the desert using just cat-eyes while trying to not run over the gun guide and the indescribable joy of a fresh water buffalo coming in from the cantonment area. In the desert, that was better than sex or candy.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 1:39:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I remember spending the night with a new WAF in a deserted small enclosed and covered bus stop at Keesler one Friday night because we did not care about anything in 1971 that night except holding someone who was as lonely as we were after just leaving basic training. I don't remember her name or the others for that matter but it was a great time in many ways even so far from home, family and friends and just out of high school and with Nam ending soon it was a time to move on, grow up and never forget how lucky or smart we were to enlist in the Air Force for we always had a saying in the Air Force no matter the base or the rank; "We are lovers, not killers".

"Not even".

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 3:30:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I remember NEVER be the first to volunteer. I remember cadence and bivouac, chow hall, guarding a tower on Christmas eve in pneumatic boots and a loaded m16. I remember how I looked in dress greens. So many things...I LOVED the Army.

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Who remembers those times when a rucksack flop was better than sex?


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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/30/2013 8:53:08 PM   
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I remember NEVER be the first to volunteer.


NAVY: Never Again Volunteer Yourself
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US ARMY: Uncle Sam Ain't Released Me Yet

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 12/31/2013 1:08:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds about right...both my brothers are medical discharges, with one retaining his security clearance. He works for various companies overseas and has build a giant house in Florida for us to live in in case Mom feels ready to move on (she is going to hate the humility...).

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 1/1/2014 11:34:20 PM   
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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 1/2/2014 7:48:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		How many remember SOS for morning chow? And we must have had the cook everyone talked about, he did not make biscuits, he made hockey pucks.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 1/2/2014 9:53:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Maybe it was that Mom wasn't such a great cook, but I was pretty much ok with the food in the chowhall. What I remember was being on separate rats half the year because of the shift work, but being prohibited from having any sort of cooking devices in the barracks, beyond the microwave in the dayroom.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 1/2/2014 1:28:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		I was a reservist for most of my time in service, so I didn't experience much 'normal' Amry cooking except in Basic and ATs. Since we were a field artillery unit, that meant we had to go into the 'field' for us to do our thing. I was in during the transition between C-rats and the first incarnation of MREs (83-89), so most of my experiences are with those. They'd test out stuff on us to see what worked and what didn't, and to see just how idiot-proof things were. I'll say just one thing: Orange-Nut Loaf. That is all. Guaranteed to stop you up for at least two days, no problem.

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RE: Stuff you remember from your military days... - 1/2/2014 1:37:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Some of the stuff in those MREs was actually pretty good, considering what they were. The cheese and crackers was a decent midday snack, the chocolate toffee candy bar was better than the ones I get from fundraiser sales today, and if you ate the beef or pork patty before heading out, you could stay drunk for three days off one night of drinking.

I have about a dozen of them in my earthquake kit, and one in the car.

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