Sgt. Mike Viet Nam Humor

[Kevin J.]

I was talking to my Grandson after he checked into his first permanent duty statin in the Corps. Before he had only been to Boot Camp and in schools commands to learn his primary MOS. When he told me he had to buy bedding and cleaning gear for his room, I couldn't believe it. All that stuff was provided when I was in the Corps (as it was in other services). I guess it was a great cost savings for the Corps not to have to pay for all that stuff.

WHAT? That is crazy. Makes me appreciate the old days where we had "house boys" (actually grown men doing good work and making money for their families) who took care of us with laundry, and all the other housekeeping stuff that a 18-19 year old had no idea needed to be done.

 

[AJ]

Have seen and heard of this happening at Boot Camp. Usually is the definition of "Quicky"!

 

[AJ]

Such comforting words! I guess somethings do change and not for the best......

 

[AJ]

I got to find a couple of these for the yard!

 

[Retired W4]

I got to find a couple of these for the yard!

A gnome with a claymore is an attention getter !!

 

[Tom S.]

I got to find a couple of these for the yard!

They are called combat gnomes.

 

[AJ]

I got to find a couple of these for the yard!

A gnome with a claymore is an attention getter !!

They are called combat gnomes.

I have one that my Wife says I can't put out. He is flipping you off. I don't think I can post it here either? Can I Tom?

AJ

 

[ameridaddy]

I doubt if any of this goes on now............?

It looks like most of our fighting in the past 40 years has been against primitives using Russian or homemade weapons, so unless you want a goat's head, there's not much in the way of collectibles around.

Before he came home from the ETO in WW2, my grandfather got three Nazi officer dress swords (daggers), a Heer, a Luftwaffe, and a Kriegsmarine, for cigarettes. I don't recall if he said a carton for all three or a carton each. They were immaculate, one of them in the original factory wrapper, and I had them for years. I gave them to my cousin because he didn't have any family memorabilia.

 

[ameridaddy]

Got to watch the submariners as they think they have to be in the stealth mode all the time. Spent the better part of two years on a carrier. We always had a submarine as one of the "ships in company". Saw it once in Spain.........never again!

A work buddy was in nuke attack subs for most of his navy career, and told me on one cruise, the carrier group surface guys bet his sub skipper that he couldn't get through the anti-sub screen.
He told me they dropped a green flare on the carrier flight deck, and up on his office wall, he had two big black-and-white photos taken through a periscope - one of a destroyer bridge, and the other of the carrier bridge.

 

[AJ]

This is true! I can think of some stuff that my friends and I did years ago that I think "Lord, was that stupid!". But then I laugh about it and do so when we all get together. I imagine a lot of folks here are in the same boat!

 

[AJ]

When we first got to MCAS Rose Garden there were no facilities to was h your clothes. When they got the field showers set up, most guys washed them on their bodies and the washed themselves. During the monsoons we washed them in the rain.

 

[AJ]

Sometimes it sure did seem like that was the case!!

 

[AJ]

They all think they know how to do the job better than anyone else!

 

[AJ]

I imagine that lives have been saved by stranger things..... Wonder if the author would want it as a momento?

 

[AJ]

How the Navy sees themselves and the other services............

 

[AJ]

The first day the DI was not very quiet or very respectful, but the rest of the sentence is sort of true if you insert a few different words for the ones that are used here..........

 

[AJ]

Was told an old joke about subs' once. It came from a friend who had been a crewmember on a Boomer. Something about 100 men went down and......

 

[AJ]

Guess that would be a good indicator of where to eat that night..........

 

[AJ]

Blisters hurt no matter how you acquire them. Some more than others!

 

[AJ]

Gentlemen, is the interest gone from this thread? I have posted nine days worth of cartoons and no one has replied to them.