What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Harmony Church, Black spit shined jump boots or jungle boots, iron sights, Warsaw Pact, no GPS, cadences laced with profanity.

Painted the rocks lining the walkway to the CO’s office white.

Burned shit in a barrel.

Messed with the White Mice in Saigon.

Were FIGMO

polished your barracks floor during GI parties by dragging someone around on an old wool blanket.

Got into Disneyland free if you wore your uniform.

PT in shorts and boots.

Spent hours putting a fifty mission crush in your cap.

You go into the military museum of the installation and on display is equipment and vehicle(s) that you were trained on in basic training and A.I.T. and you're still in uniform to report for your duty assignment.

You have to be an ethnocentric asshole and be in the Army longer than the people you are berating. Affirmation is found when other Ethnocentric assholes chime in with the hardships that made them amazing ethnocentric assholes with a right of passage the newer soldiers "will never know".

Some key obvious facotrs:
Walking up hill both ways on a roadmarch,
insurmountable odds of survival during peacetime,
being hit by NCOS
being smoked for clerical errors

Loving the comments here, but not loving how old that makes me realize I am in comparison to (many of) these young bucks.

Hmmm? So many things could make up what "old school" old heads have mentioned lighting SC Johnson's wax, Brasso, shelter halves, hand written counselings, the duce and a half...Its about the mentality and traditions. Kicking ass and taking names. Training your troops to take your place. We had discipline based on the fear of reprisal. But most importantly there was DISCIPLINE. Not this pansies ass Soldier mentality that is standard today. It isnt just the young PFC either. The Officer Corps is the same way and the grey beards no longer have the power to change it because it's been stripped away by the PC culture. That is Old School

It depends on when you served I guess. Prior Gulf War.maybe? My guess is that no matter when and where you served you will always be Old School once you leave the service. My professional opinion only. Semper Fi Old Shipmates!

I didn't have no banana suit I did PT in OD GREEN and boots

Referred to Top as the First-Soldier; have a lot of thick, canvas gear, having females in AIT trading their bodies to get-over on cadre and instructors, cursing your prick-77 for not working AGAIN, hearing war-stories about Vietnam from 30-somethings, wearing pickle-suits, having different haircuts then every civilian male, having civilians think you joined only because you couldn't get a another job, wondering which of your friends was CID even as he was rolling a joint, seeing and knowing some grunts who couldn't read, guys in family-quarters getting away with punching-out their wives the first and maybe second time, having some rag-bag fess-up to being gay to GET-OUT of the military, guys going to the recruiter instead of the other option: jail, no money. entire REMF units getting high and wondering if the stoner driving the deuce and a half was going to drive off a cliff, going through basic and seeing how hard-up recruiters were, having sent guys that were definitely folks the rode the mini-bus to school, meeting old-guys that had fought in Korea and bad-asses that had fruit salad from three wars on their uniform, and other guys that got their pensions only because up-and-out hadn't been implemented, and bitter Warrant officers who had flown cobras in heavy combat and then got rifted from Major, and other Warrant officers that were PAs in Troop Med Clinic treating rashes who had done field surgery in Vietnam.

You remember the SP5s And SP6s.
you had TA-50 layouts about every 3 months.
You had a wall locker display.
You had wool brackets for your bunk.
You had up to 4 soldiers per room.
You were in formation with soldiers who still had the green uniform.(before BDUs)
you could get smoked and didn't have to have a reason.