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The mindsets between the ground (surface) folks and the aviation folks is quite different at times.
Sgt. Mike Viet Nam Humor
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Intel not correct or old??? Have seen this quite a few times........
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What did you do for calling home before cell phones? I called about one a month or so using a pay phone with a stack of quarters or collect. Overseas I called one time each of my first two tours....to tell them I was being transferred (to Viet Nam).
I used to always call collect. I never got a chance to make a Mars call.
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I only called home once via the Mars Network. We deloyed to Sicily once for 30 days. We borrowed the MARS Station from MCAS Cherry Point and took it with us. Built a dipole antenna with safety wire and broom sticks down the front side of our three story barracks. Opened it up to the entire base for their use too.
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The younger generations are focused on their priorities are most of the time. Life is a video game...
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A deck of cards and board games won't help...........However, a dry hooch to sleep in probably would!
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I think we had the opposite, a de-morale officer. Someone showed up and wanted everyone to shine their brass and polish their boots. They even wanted us to run a PRT. I don't think the pilots and RIO's were included. Did officers have to do PRT's? This didn't go over well with the peons. A Sargent in the squadron was dating a senators daughter. After a work slowdown and a letter to the sargent's girlfriend, we didn't have to run or polish. The brass threatened us with mutiny, but that wouldn't work because things still got repaired and the planes flew. It really didn't make sense because of all the sand and sweat. Boots wore out in about six months trudging through the sand.
Oh the fun we had.
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Need I say more??
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Sensitivity Training for the "new" military. When I was in they tried "Sensitivity Training" as part of the "Human Relations" program. You had to attend "Phase One " & "Phase Two" Human Relations before being sent to "Phase Three" which was "Sensitivity Training". They had to stop it and shut it down.........Why you ask? Well not enough Referee's for the festivities!!
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Grandson is getting out due to such BS.
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My second Grandson will be reporting to Parris Island in late Aug.
Be careful out there.....
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Have known a few that had gotten this option from the judge. For the most part they seemed to have changed their ways............
I had two of those cases in my unit. Four years in jail or two in the Corps.
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I know some folks that fit in this catagory!
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I wonder what foods are verbooten on a sub, if any? Just how good are the air scrubbers? Knew a guy that would eat deer sausage, cheese and drink a couple of beers. The next day at work a green cloud followed him around. Used a lot of stick matches around him in an effort to combat the stench!
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This is being seen and heard more and more these days.
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Here is a picture that I took of my M16 in Da Nang. Someone had asked me for a picture of what I had there. Took a "display" picture for them.
