What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Wore and washed in a steel pot AND cooked in it!
Red nylon PT uniform. (Field Artillery)
Deuce and a half with a ma-deuce mounted!
GAMMA GOAT!!!! 3 cylinders of loud death trap!!! Lol
OH yes, those wonderful cattle cars!
M16 with iron sights and 10 round mags
WII barracks...50 man bays. Bathrooms with stalls and NO DOORS!
Take it to the commies: taking pictures of them taking pictures of you. FULDA GAP!
The pup tent, need I say more?
Use enough startch so the pants stand up by themselves
Spit shine with a white cotton tshirt. Light the kiwi on fire to hot shine.
GAMMA GOAT!!!!! HAHAHAHA. Most people, even old school, have only seen these in the movie stripes with Bill Murray and think it is a Chechoslovakian vehicle!!!
MRE?? C-rats had much better trade value on the economy!!!
Drink at a NCO club on post? Get arrested with your 1SG in the NCO club for fighting another unit and having the battery commander bail us out!

I don’t go back that far but for the first quarter of my career lots a senior folks would refer to “brown shoe” army. My own definition is did you have any HBT (herringbone twill) fatigues. They were the best and I was never able to get any.

Old School is abiding by the rules (regulations), showing respect to your superiors and peers, maintaining proper discipline, practicing integrity (that means doing the right thing even though no one is watching), not challenging authority, not being a constant complainer and I could go on but I think you get the drift. And by the way, it is NOT an ever-moving line. It is just a time when military service meant being dedicated to serving and not just some other job.

Old school?? Standing in line at the PX/BX to use the phone. “Check Floating”, “Greens” that was not a meal. Letter writing. I did a lot of that!

If you have to ask stupid queations like this , I would worry about being a soldier now and stop worrying about old schoolcauae your not

Wait, shelter halves aren't being used anymore?

Brown shoe Army- carry M1 and BAR

We did PT in our duty uniform becauae they didnt have PT uniforms and if you pressed your duty uniform plan on getting smoked because crisp lines break the illusion of the camoflage . As for the MRE, the first time i was in we had C rations and heated our food on the motor of the duece and a half. Believe it or not that was back in the mid 80's

Well I think maybe if you were issued brown combat boots .Took basic training with a M1 Garand rifle.Ate Korean war surplus C rations.If you wore the IKE jacket and olive green pants as a Class A uniform.If you thought MCE rations tasted pretty good compared to C rats.I hope this makes me qualified as old school I enlisted in Jan 1957.

To be honest I think it means being close to retirement and "oh how things have changed" since you started your career. I experienced the Army as a 1980's Armor Private to 2009 Armor LTC...the changes were very noticeable mostly in a good way but I did feel "old skool" around the 17-18 year mark as retirement approached and definitely when those behind me share their current experiences. It does feel good to be old skool though! Haha