Posted on Jul 1, 2014
What constitutes being "old school" in the military?
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I'm hearing/reading people saying "I'm old school, therefore..." So out of curiosity's sake, where is that ever-moving line?
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If you went thru basic without a time out card ( your yelling at me card I need to call my mommy and take a timeout)
Driven around in a old Chevy 1/4 ton truck. Fired a LAW rocket. Wore the old style gas mask. Have your BDU's starched were they stand on there own. Spit shine your boots or use leather luster for your inspection boot. Know what the brown bag MRE had in it. What a C ration is. Wore the black and yellow PT uniforms or the gray ones. Did PT in boots and BDU's. Worked in a MOS that no longer exists.
Driven around in a old Chevy 1/4 ton truck. Fired a LAW rocket. Wore the old style gas mask. Have your BDU's starched were they stand on there own. Spit shine your boots or use leather luster for your inspection boot. Know what the brown bag MRE had in it. What a C ration is. Wore the black and yellow PT uniforms or the gray ones. Did PT in boots and BDU's. Worked in a MOS that no longer exists.
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SSG Selwyn Bodley I think when most people say that they are old school they mean that they are not PC.
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If you came in 25 years ago or previously. Equipment, personalities, attitudes that no longer exist.
Anyone after, try to keep up. We old schoolers like to Keep It Simple .......Stupid.
There it is.
Anyone after, try to keep up. We old schoolers like to Keep It Simple .......Stupid.
There it is.
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MSG John Wirts
AH YES1 The KISS Principle, I don't remember if it was Keep It Simple, Stupid, or Keep It Stupid, Simple!
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SGT Randall Smith
My 1st Sgt told me when I got a squad, Always give instructions so the slowest man will understand. Then have him repeat them.
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1SG Michael Blount
Easiest way to describe old school is PRIDE, or Personal Responsibility In Daily Events. We have it. Youngsters don't
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SGT Randall Smith
President Johnson thought I was wasting time in College and sent me a letter. And that my friend is old school. There was no birthday number. I still have that letter in a foot locker. It starts, " Greetings, your friends and neighbors" ......... I have not made a friend since then. They can't be trusted.
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Well for the military "old school " everyone that went to basic before the "new"military was formed, joining the military and going through basic,AIT ment you went through it ALL !!! Combat ready now it's done according to what MOS you are going for!!! So you haven't been through it ALL. Most of us went through basic,war,war ,war. We didn't have the technology today's army has it was more hand to hand combat. I hope I have shed some light on this. Don't feel bad if your to young to be "old school" it's technology helped you in today's Military
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SGT Randall Smith
I was RA and my brother was US. We went in a year apart but served in Nam together.
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SFC Greg Bruorton
MSG John Wirts - It's good to know that there are others who remember the old Browning Automatic Rifle. I actually liked it. And what about the old 3/4 ton trucks (as seen in MASH? I drove plenty of them.) Plus, the WWII Jeep with white stars and unit identifiers long before the M-151 came out?
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MSG John Wirts
I drove the M-38 square fender, the M-38A1 rounded fender jeeps. the M-151 the killer, and M-151A1 with rear axle limiters. M-37 3/4 ton truck in more variants then I can remember. The M-35, M-35A1, M-35A2 2 1/2 ton trucks, and the M-52 5 ton truck. Weapons I have fired the 30-40 Krag rifle, the 1903 Springfield, the 1903-A3 Springfield, the 1917 Enfield, The M-1 Garand, The M-1 and M-2 Carbine, The M-60 Machine Gun, the M-14, The M-79, The M-249 squad assault rifle. I never fired the 1941 Johnson rifle, or the BAR, or the 3.5 in Rocket Launcher. I fired rifle grenades from the M-1, the M-14, and the M-16. I feel very old as most of these are in museums!
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If you ever:
Wore dungarees
Washed your White Hat in salt water to get a good shape to it
Shaped your White Hat
Wore Boondockers
Pressed your Dress Blues by folding them and putting them under your mattress and sleeping on them.
Wore dungarees
Washed your White Hat in salt water to get a good shape to it
Shaped your White Hat
Wore Boondockers
Pressed your Dress Blues by folding them and putting them under your mattress and sleeping on them.
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I guess I see old school as the vietnam era and before. Time after that is modern to me.
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Look, If I stood on the Yellow footprints before you did, ..., even if you got off of the same bus, well, you should see the way it used to be... :)
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