What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

To me it throws red flags as to that SM openness to change, willingness to look at the "new" way honestly and give it FULL support before denouncing it as not as good as the "Old School" way.

Did I keep in mind how we "used to do it"? Of course, for examples of both a better way, and a worse way not to repeat. Or to base a new way on an old, but modify it to work for the current situation.

I have seen alot of Posts that I can relate to.
But I have not seen anyone mention Re-Forger yet.
I was on re-forger when the first Black Hawk was Bang around coming out of the ships haul in Belguim and the pilots hoping it was not there bird LOL

Just saw this today! Thinking you might be old school if you were in when this was being used...

I looked over a lot of the posts. To me, old school is fairly basic. I feel that old school is going back to the time that soldiers were soldiers, and politicians were politicians. They were totally separate, and quite often did not like each other, sometimes to the extreme. Before I left the service in 1996, I was seeing more and more that soldiers were also being expected to act as politicians. You had to be totally politically correct all the time. You had to be willing if introduced to another country's military, even ones that had been our enemy like Russia, and smile. I was in the field when we had a group of Russian observers brought through during the ending of the Cold War. We had to salute them, and answer any questions that they chose to ask. I got in a little trouble due to that. I just walked away from them.

Who remembers the DA-2496 (a.k.a. "Disposition Form")?

Pith helmets in Basic

Old school is just code for I liked it better somewhere else or someplace else and it was better than you and this place now! Not always grounded in any real thought, analysis or critical thinking...just ones own belief that what they used to do was right, and what they are experiencing now is not. So it could be like a day old; I have actually seen that in the field...

Well for me being "old school" is getting with the troops and verbally informing them of what's going. We send tons of emails everyday to our soldiers as well text messages etc...

LBE,No cell phones,No P.T. belt,no GPS,rode in cattle car,ate MRE's and also had powdered eggs,passed APFT before graduation,drove deuce and half and 1/4 ton,

If you held up a mop to adjust track and balance on the moving main rotor blades of your helicopter........Vietnam aircrew respect!