What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

Man... I was just telling a friend about doing this the other day. After looking for a can of Johnson's paste wax at Wally World. Couldn't find any..

Having one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel ?

How about hours and hours of DNC. Now days it is hilarious just watching them try to march in a straight line. Man I miss DNC

The line moves with every new generation of Soldiers. My personal opinion is that this is why it is so important for us to remember our own military history in order to help keep traditions alive.

if you ate c rats, bathed from a steel pot, dug a hole to sh*t in made tents out of shelter halves, didn't see a shower for more than 30 days, you might be old school

After reading a lot of these and thinking about it when the army changed from something it was since before even WWI. The real "old school" dividing line , Was the 45 .

• When your first boss was a prior service Marine who’d fought in WWII at the battle of Okinawa
• When GPS meant, Grain Belt, Pabst and Schmidt
• When you had to “shoot” the north star with a theodolite and transfer angles manually to a missile guidance set
• You used a slide rule in electronics class
• When you’d done KP, halls & walls, weeds & seeds and TLC and enjoyed it
• You qualified with a S&W 38
• You actually thought “potted meat product” C-Rats were pretty good

The famous mint green uniform. Circa 1979.

Having worn the khaki uniform when I first went in the Army in 1979 (yes, I switched services). Oh! Forgot about when women wore the mint green uniforms. Now that was something to look at. So, for those ladies that served in the Army, what was your opinion on the mint green uniforms?

Ha! This has come up in other forums. I'd say that if you ate C-Rats in the field, you're old school. But even that's new school/corps. I bought an old Leatheneck magazine from 1944-ish and a PFC wrote a letter to the editor complaining about "old corps" (school), so I guess we've been arguing about that since it all began. We used to say that the guy who joined a day before you is old corps (school). LOL