Sgt. Mike Viet Nam Humor

[F4phantom]

Didn't run into many Chaplins during my time in the Corps. The few that I did talk to were very helpful.

We had a couple of guys who didn't like the Marine Corps. Remember this is 1965 and very little was tolerated. We had one fellow who requested to see the Captain. The Captain asked him wast he wanted and he flat out said "I'm queer". He was gone in less than 48 hours. We had another guy who liked to crap in his bunk, gone in a flash. We only had one discharged for medical reasons.
Oh the fun had.

 

[AJ]

Most of us should know this feeling! To many years of guns and jet aircraft are my excuses!

 

[Retired W4]

Most of us should know this feeling! To many years of guns and jet aircraft are my excuses!

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My hearing test right after VN showed a significant loss. All those 1300 HP turbo-shaft engines, not to mention the two M-60's right behind me may have had something to do with it. Eventually the VA agreed.

 

[pmanton]

My favorite word is "Huh".

 

[AJ]

My favorite word is "Huh".

I don't know which irritates the wife more............when I don't hear her or when I say "huh"?

 

[Greyman50]

My ears ring so bad I really had a very hard time with any hearing tests. Got 50% from VA.

 

[Retired W4]

I don't know which irritates the wife more............when I don't hear her or when I say "huh"?

My wife is so used to me saying "say that again" she handles it pretty well. After the third time she sometimes gets a bit irritated. It's hard to hear here little voice with the ringing and rushing noise in my head.

 

[AJ]

A good Sea Story has no witnesses!

 

[18robert]

i'v been in the rear of ( puff) when we let loose with tose guns,NOW THATS NOISE

 

[Muley Gil]

This is for AJ. Were you issued an electricians knife? I was issued this pocket knife when I got to H&MS 24 at Cherry Point right after "A" school, July 1966. There is a nylon belt sheath in a box somewhere in the attic. It was made by Camilllus in New York. The knife company is still around. I keep in my toolbox and it comes in handy. I wonder if the electronics guys get anything like this now? They probably get better things.
Oh the fun we had.

My dad was in charge of building and grounds at several Army Corps of Engineers installations around the DC area. He carried one of those pocketknives for years. He gave a couple over the years. Don't know what happened to them.

 

[AJ]

My dad was in charge of building and grounds at several Army Corps of Engineers installations around the DC area. He carried one of those pocketknives for years. He gave a couple over the years. Don't know what happened to them.

Since those were an issue item to those that used them, we always had a couple. Before they became a controlled item there was usually a box full of them in the NCOIC's desk drawer. Just got another when you needed one.

 

[Muley Gil]

How many of you read "The Short-Timers" by Gustav Hasford? I read it when it first came out and thought is was a good fiction book. It was the basis for "Full Metal Jacket". Thought I wanted a copy to reread..................... https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=Gustav Hasford&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&ref_=search_f_hp&sts=t&tn=The Short-Timers Now I don't think so!

I used to work security at a motel where the Naval Reserve stayed on their weekends. I made friends with a SeaBee officer who had grown up in the same small town as Hasford. He had a copy of the book and let me read it. This was back about 1988 or so.

 

[AJ]

For all our friends from the Armored Sector...............Is this true??

 

[AJ]

While he is in Boot Camp, my Grandson will be doing this. However, I doubt it will be this way!

 

[F4phantom]

While he is in Boot Camp, my Grandson will be doing this. However, I doubt it will be this way!

I thought the "confidence course" was fun. We did a lot of those things when we were kids. Had a good size woods behind the house and played there a lot. Sometimes it resulted in getting the wind knocked out of you when the rope broke.
From what I can tell they added a couple of new exercises to the confidence course. It would have been fun, especially when you are 18 years old not afraid of anything.
The vertical climb was easy and the platform was more difficult. The one that was really challenging was the two platform climb. The platforms were about six feet apart and the same size and you had to get to the top of the second platform and then back down.
Oh the fun we had.

 

[AJ]

Felt good to make it through the "Confidence Course" with no faux pas! Had a few that had to drop off the "Slide For Life", into the mud/water pit below.

 

[18robert]

when my turn came to grab the rope and go,the rope did not get back to me ! so i thought i had to jump for it and of course i missed the rope and splash. it became a long day at that time..

 

[Retired W4]

The slide-for-life at JOTC in Ft. Sherman, Panama ran over the Rio Chargres. There was an extra incentive to make it across...A bunch of caimans swimming in the river below. They are aggressive little critters, and they bite.

Full disclosure: I never went down the slide, but I did fly over it while the JOTC guys were on it.

 

[AJ]

A lot of us seemed big to some of the folks in the Far East..........

 

[Retired W4]

A good friend of mine from Da Nang is taller than I am. I suspect there is some French in his ancestry.