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Posted on 11/10/14 at 9:15 pm to CNB
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Hah! I have heard the grid squares one before
There's another one where you ask a new private to collect an exhaust sample from an HMMWV in a garbage bag and take it to the motor pool for testing.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 9:20 pm to Cheese Grits
Heard both SNAFU and FUBAR, but "Charlie Foxtrot" and variations thereof were by far the most common I heard.
Being in a mechanized battalion, the big thing all the new joes got to do was take a ball peen hammer and go looking for soft spots in the tank or brad armor. Good thing we didn't have an reactive armor or we might have had to do a safety stand down.
Being in a mechanized battalion, the big thing all the new joes got to do was take a ball peen hammer and go looking for soft spots in the tank or brad armor. Good thing we didn't have an reactive armor or we might have had to do a safety stand down.
Posted on 11/10/14 at 9:29 pm to KyleOrtonsMustache
Ask them what the alternate word for "Hand" is and give them a
Discount if they say "dick beater".
Discount if they say "dick beater".
This post was edited on 11/10/14 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 11/11/14 at 12:18 am to CNB
Ahh, kinda like sending the new guy out to the flight deck for "mail buoy" watch during flight ops.
Or down to the machine shop for an "HT Punch".
Or down to the machine shop for an "HT Punch".
Posted on 11/11/14 at 6:17 am to Remote Controlled
You're the kind of guy that would spend all day looking for the keys to the Humvee.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:12 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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I don't want any fakers trying to get in on the goodness.
You could ask where he or she was stationed or deployed? A true Vet will rattle this off without hesitation. And it also comes off as you being interested and not skeptical.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:38 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
Ask to see their shitty service tattoo. They all have one.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:53 am to TRUERockyTop
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Ask to see their CAC card or retirement ID. All active duty/retirees should have one
But you leave many Vets out that way...I was medically discharged after 9 years and have neither.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:55 am to CNB
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I have heard the grid squares one before
Being ex-Field Artillery, this was standard data for new privates. Just like Chem-Light batteries, Lanyard Grease, and Quadrant Level bubbles.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:56 am to KajunGator
Then go get a service connected disability VA card, silly.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:57 am to KajunGator
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But you leave many Vets out that way...I was medically discharged after 9 years and have neither.
You could have a VA card if you wanted to.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 7:58 am to LewDawg
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Then go get a service connected disability VA card, silly.
I've had one since my 2nd surgery...not talking about myself, just making a point. Only asking for current AD cards or Retirement cards leaves out the majority of Vets.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 8:08 am to Remote Controlled
Bulkhead remover
Keys to the stern gate
Keys to the stern gate
Posted on 11/11/14 at 8:39 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
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How can I tell if someone is a veteran?
If your name is Jody, you already know.
This post was edited on 11/11/14 at 9:55 am
Posted on 11/11/14 at 9:02 am to KyleOrtonsMustache
As a former radio operator in the USMC, we had the best prank for boots when they got to the company.
Radios in the military all have the same nomenclature, although with different numerical versions. A "PRC" was a portable radio and the nomenclature was pronounced "prick".
I would always send a boot on his first day to speak with Company guns (a gunnery sergeant, E7). His instructions were to ask where he could find a "prick E7".
Good times.
Radios in the military all have the same nomenclature, although with different numerical versions. A "PRC" was a portable radio and the nomenclature was pronounced "prick".
I would always send a boot on his first day to speak with Company guns (a gunnery sergeant, E7). His instructions were to ask where he could find a "prick E7".
Good times.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 1:56 pm to JDHLaw
We'd tell them to go down to supply and pick up 100 yards of flightline or have them call supply and order a box of fallopian tubes, but give them he number to the GYN clinic.
We had people come into our office several times with garbage bag air samples from various places.
We had people come into our office several times with garbage bag air samples from various places.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 4:51 pm to KyleOrtonsMustache
I can tell when they all change their Facebook profile pics on Veterans and Memorial Day and bask in the accolades and hero worship.
That's how I can tell.
That's how I can tell.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 4:56 pm to KajunGator
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But you leave many Vets out that way...I was medically discharged after 9 years and have neither.
Or those of us who did a few years and got out.
Posted on 11/11/14 at 9:13 pm to CatFan81
Ask the new privates to go to supply and sign out a PRC E8.
This post was edited on 11/11/14 at 9:17 pm
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