What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Having experience that is greater the 10 years old.
Remember the average Pvt is 18-21. 10years ago they were children .

Harmony Church A-8-2, I'll leave it right there....

C-Rats (2) X a day out in the middle of nowhere; and no one gives a f$&@! You return from the field and expect Liberty Call or some R&R and *POOF* the XO is breathing down your neck lookin for a loaded (30) round magazine! Punishment is NO ONE GOES ANYWHERE! No enemy to fight; so we fight amongst ourselves! Now that’s serious OLD SCHOOL…

Reading through these comments about this and that is interesting. I can take a majority of all the “if you…” minus a few and apply it to 2005. We spit shined boots, starched BDUs, had crappy M16s, lived in old falling apart barracks (once I stayed in some with a shattered broken window in Texas and no hot water), slept outdoors in a sleeping bag, ate MREs, didn’t have body armor but had an LBE, steel frame rucks, met PT standards to graduate, sung dirty cadences, Etc. I saw the toxicity wane off form 05-21. Leaders begun to be held accountable and combat deaths drop. Each generation of our heroes is a little different. The one before tries to say they were better. However, they are better now. Smarter… much smarter. New private come in with innovation and the development of amazing tech and ideas. The battlefield is completely different.

Winning.

Having to walk 3 steps behind a officer.

Li

I was trained at N. A. S. Bainbridge, Maryland --- enough said.

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For us navy guys it was actually wearing dungarees. Also the only people wearing khakis or either chiefs or officers.