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.
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Here is a link to my pay call question
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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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Here is a link to my pay call question
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Who remembers pay call? What country(ies) did you receive pay call in? | RallyPoint
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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As it got darker the fireworks began. I remember my platoon was lighting up the sky with tracer rounds, red one direction and green in the other. My fellow medic, Evans (photo attached), always looked so relaxed when things got crazy.
It got quiet for awhile and you could here the Huey gunships coming our way. Their mission that night was to bring us each 2 cold beers and a sack of mail and after delivering it, they quickly disappeared into that dark evening sky. That night we had mail call and read our mail along with drinking cold beers.
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They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them,
We will remember them.
Last Post (British Taps)
***** Two Minute Silence *****
When you go home, tell them of us,
and say, for your today, we gave our tomorrow.
On Remembrance Day, US Veterans Day, in every village, town, and city across the United Kingdom, parades are held, and the prayer is recited.
At the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the presence of the monarch, following a Festival of Remembrance entertainment, a service of remembrance is held, as it has been, ever since 1919. This link, is the prayer of that service, followed by Last Post, the silence and reveille.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99tCg596QSc
Should you be interested, this is a link to the 2017 Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, during the silence, poppy petals drift down across the assembled military who have been represented during the festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwmPkhZBYUE&t=11s
Thank you, very nice prayer. I will say it for our other medic friend “Old Man McConnell”, given that name because we were all 18 to 21 he was 26. May he rest in peace. He was a Senior Medic not assigned to a infantry platoon. Old Man was scheduled to get discharged and kidded he would be waiting at San Francisco Airport with a convertible full of pretty girls when we returned in December 1968.
Old man when into the field one last time to bring out those shot and lost his life in doing so. Nice guy and still have a mental picture of him laughing sitting in a convertible at San Francisco Airport.
Here is my rallypoint question about paycall
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/who-remembers-pay-call-what-country-ies-did-you-receive-pay-call-in
Who remembers pay call? What country(ies) did you receive pay call in? | RallyPoint
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...
By the way here is a link to my parallel question to this one.
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/who-remembers-pay-call-what-country-ies-did-you-receive-pay-call-inSSG Mildred Johnson
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By the way here is a link to my parallel question to this one.
https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/who-remembers-pay-call-what-country-ies-did-you-receive-pay-call-in
Who remembers pay call? What country(ies) did you receive pay call in? | RallyPoint
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...