What constitutes being "old school" in the military?

If you can not tell byAnyone with a enlistment date at least one day before yours is "Old School".

This is funny ..... I joined in 2001 -2010 used shelter halves in basic but really wouldn’t consider myself old school but...... got to serve during the best time ever

HOW ABOUT NOT WEARING YOUR FATIGUES OFF BASE EXCEPT TO GO BACK AND FORTH TO THE BASE?

I trained and was issued an M-14.
We did PT in fatigue pants, no shorts.
I guess I must be old, old school.

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Being an Old Navy man, I can tell you that my vary first observation was that a goodly number of khacki clads hadcaffer mugs surgically fitted to their dominant hand which was held at waist level along side of well rounded bellies. They had voices that rivaled dump trucks full of gravel. They talked of times in their past of ships of wood and men of steal. They taught us everything we needed to know to do our jobs and to survive life in the jungles of the outside world . That is "Old School" the Navy way.

We might add wore OD uniform and black boots

O my, I can relate to all of these. And I'm not quite as old as dirt! My drive was a 1/4 tom willies with a trailer, I also drove a gamma goat! Those were the days. Then I got a hummer, what an upgrade.

Keep it simple ...steel pot, P38, starched fatigues enough said!

For my part old school would be those times prior to women being able to go through jump school or holding any type of combat role. Not that I am prejudiced on this matter as I have known some fine women paratroopers/riggers; Joyce Kutch being the very first and most well respected. That would be the time line I seperate the old army from the new.

If your manual of arms ever included a blunderbuss!