Who remembers standing in formation for mail call? Does the military still conduct mail call?
Later as a cadet at West Point one of the duties of the freshman class known as plebes was to distribute the mail to the upper classmen. It was a very important function and seemed to release a sense of common humanity and a brief period of humane treatment.
After I was commissioned in 1980, my mail was delivered to me except when we were away from home station when we would have mail call or else wait until the operation was over and then mail would be distributed.
Images: mail call wingen 70th ID WWII; Korean War early afternoon mail call brought these Thunderbirds in the 279th Infantry; Mail call! Pfc Glen Zachery of the 19th Army Postal Unit brings a sack of mail to the
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I remember pay call while being stationed in Bamberg, Germany in the early 1980's. I think pay call was only used for forces stationed overseas [expect that includes all Navy vessels as well] where a choice of currency to receive your pay made sense. Pay call made sense when many service members did not have direct deposit for their salary. I don't know if pay call still exists and where it is used. [Update July 19] I was an infantry training...
Of the pay line. Lol
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I remember pay call while being stationed in Bamberg, Germany in the early 1980's. I think pay call was only used for forces stationed overseas [expect that includes all Navy vessels as well] where a choice of currency to receive your pay made sense. Pay call made sense when many service members did not have direct deposit for their salary. I don't know if pay call still exists and where it is used. [Update July 19] I was an infantry training...
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I expect nobody sent that 1SG any embarrassing items in the mail :-)
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I expect you experience mirrors that of many.
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Thanks for posting the acronym "Shelter, Expandable, Shop, Portable, Aircraft Maintenance, somewhat affectionately referred to as the SPAM." Mail SPAM is a nice turn of a phrase on email spam. :-)
Thanks for sharing some detail on mail procedures while you were deployed
1, Everybody had to "sign forms authorizing our NCOs to pick up our mail from the Battalion mail room. After the mail was picked up, it would be handed out to the individuals, or placed on the "mail table" in the shop so when you came on shift, your mail was waiting for you."
2. When you had night duty at KAF, one of your "additional duties was acting as the mail clerk for the guys on night shift. When I knew that we had gotten in a mail shipment, I would sort through it and take it around to the various shops as I did not have time to sit in the "mail SPAM*" all night,"
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