Posted on Jul 1, 2014
SSG Selwyn Bodley
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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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MSgt Jeff Greene
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I know he USAF isn't as old as the other branches but I was issued fatigues that had to be starched, chukka boots along with combat boots and low quarters which all had to be spit shined. If you weren't in maintenance you wore 1505s (tan) uniform until they were phased out in the late 60s or early 70s. I ate C-rats on deployments and discussed the difference with older guys who remembered K-rats. I also remember rank meant something to those who had less than you.
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Lt Col Jim Coe
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80-column computer punch cards
Starched uniforms
Spit shined black boots
Military aircraft with piston engines
Orange flight suits
Cloth rank that wasn't subdued
Brick radios
Trucks and busses with standard transmission
SAC
Aircraft type codes with 3 numbers
APs with white hats
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CW4 Glen Nardin
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Old school used to be push-ups "until I'm tired" (yelled by a Non-Comm wearing brown boots).
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SGT John Wesley
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Junk on the Bunk inspections

Buffer bronco rodeo

Bruised by the Drill Sergeant's hat

Drove the old dodge pickups (pre-CUCV)

Ate pork patties in MRE's...
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TSgt Robert Allen
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When you remember the pickle suits, the leather removable patches on your BDUs, you know what a P38 is, and you know MREs used to be a lot worse.
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TSgt Robert Allen
TSgt Robert Allen
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Also you had to know how to drive stick (think deuce and a half and Jeep)
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SGT Mark Turner
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lit up the C-ration peanut butter to mark the LZ for extraction
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SGT Mark Turner
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lit up the C-ration peanut butter to mark the LZ for extraction
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SGT Sam Molletti
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5 mile "Airborne Shuffle" in fatigues and jump boots, before breakfast.
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PFC Timothy Ahern
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I remember wearing the "pickle suits" eating C-rations riding in real duece and a half driving jeeps and m113a1's and a2's
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CPL Jeff Hill
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MRE's is old school? How about C rations?
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SGT Randall Smith
SGT Randall Smith
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C-rations wrote the book on Old School. The John Wayne candy bar would break your teeth.
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