What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

rank

If you believe accomplishing the mission is the most important duty, and that all other tasks such as performance reports and ancillary (classroom/CBT/etc.) training siphon far too much valuable training time.

I think all of you are a bunch of young kids.

Been there done that now thats old school

Barracks, KP, separate club system, pay call, M151.

Beer machines in the barracks! The good old days!

I'm just an "OLD MARINE"!!!
Semper Fi

I would say if you had C-Rations for dinner or any other meal, then you ARE old-school. I never did eat them, but i saw them. But i did everything MAJ Roberts (Bob) Petrarca mentioned.

MANILA mooring lines
White lead and tallow
Red lead
The "Smoking Lamp"
Sea Store Cigarettes were a $1.00 a carton (Camels)
Canvas bunk bottoms with cotton bunk lashings
Air bedding
Rope yarn Sunday
Camp Elliott Rifle Range using the Garand M-1(Navy)
Marines on the 32nd Street gate
The days when drinking a beer wasn't a friggin sin against humanity

Okay my turn:

Buck slips, every senior staff officer in BN HQs had their own colored felt pen, charts and darts gunnery, OD Green fatigues, real paper property books, 4 card stock record keeping system, 2406, shotgun envelopes, typewriters in the field, microfiche, TA1s, “This line is insecure...”