What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Driving the old cattle cars and PRAYING that when I was stopped on a hill, I wouldn’t stall, or worse yet, slide back down the hill! Living in WWII barracks at Fort Jackson, SC, Tank Hill and having roving guard and fire patrol!

You ate a C rat with cigarettes in the accessory pack

Green O.D. Fatigues starched you had to peel apart to wear them, Spit shined Black combat boots, Canvas shelter halves ! Kaki uniforms

Even though you voted for Reagan by absentee ballot from from the barracks, you’re still in uniform in 2023.

Ate LRP'S , used mess kit and ate turkey loaf from c rations for Thanksgiving.

I say anyone who served before 1980! Just my thoughts....

As an old Corpsman I remember the medicinal value of Charlie Rats cheese (Stopped the runs). Never had seen "Wings" cigarettes before opening those rations. I remember WWII dressings in my Unit One with sulfa packets that had caked up 20 years before. I remember Kool Aid helped the flavor of "Water Buffalo" water. I remember thinking they'll never improve on the M14....still do.

MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca,
You forgot “C” rations, P-38 and firing .22’s with an adapter on the M-16.
COL Quentin Collins

Well been in many deuce and a half, used gammas to mount tank killing rockets "wire guided " shoveled coal to keep the barracks warm at Ft. knox, Ft Polk and "Camp Drum" our C-rats were made in 1942, and we walked a ton. Never bothered carrying shelter halves or sleeping bags we did our work at night. We had 1 starlight scope per platoon.

Spitshined jump boots , OD green fatigues , or Jungle boots and Jungle fatigues take your pick