What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Why can't I find Brasso any where?

Ate C rations
Wore a pickle suit (green fatigues).
Called a fighting position a foxhole and nobody cared.
Banana suit for pt
Ran in boots
Had to pass pt
Had to qualify with M16

Any time you are in a conversation with anyone who went in the military AFTER you.

old school? did I hear some one say old school? before Social Security took money from your pay? You mean real old school? When your NCOIC just might stick a boot up your ass!

I am so old school I have worn out more foot lockers than you kids have socks, real old school is before the changes late 1957 and early 1958. when your MOS determined the amount of rank you could earn, a truck driver could not retire in a rank of E4 many retired as E3 you do not know old Army unless your class a uniform was OD "Ike Jacket"

"Old School is living and dying in green fatigues; M-14 rifles; Block on white name tags.

"old school"? I think that is an opinion, but generally anyone who has come before a specif shift in military training doctrine.

Or anyone who is working past 20 years, could be considered "old school".

The problem with "old school" is that people remember the nostalgic part of it fondly, and forget that there is a reason the change was made, and it usually has to do with soldier welfare.

There was a chem when "might made right" in the Army, and an NCO, did not need leadership skills, he would just get a bunch of NCO's and wall to wall council your ass. Was that an effective way of training as soldier? Depends on who you ask. But, it sure does remove a lot of resentment in junior enlisted soldiers.

There was a time when all of basic was done in boots, and then they shifted to using running shoes, did that make soldiers weaker? Again depends on who you ask; But, it did cut down on stress injuries like shin splints, which cut down on expenses in training.

I rode in a gamma goat it was my rig in Korea, I was retrans rode up a many mountain top, we had jeep wiley's and prc 77's, I did basic at Ft. Jackson lived in world war 2 barracks, duck walked up drag ass hill ;), Drove 2 1/2 and 5 tons, had cotton fatigues that we used spray starch on to keep a crease in them, I ate sea rats, mre's I never heard of and you had to have a p38 to open your food

old, new all important.

Old School is anyone that’s been in longer than you.