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You know you're Old Corps when:
You had iron sights on an M16A1 and shot possibles at 500 meters.
You fam-fired a .45 ACP.
You used a map, a compass, and a protractor. And got lost less often than guys with GPS do today.
"Geographic bachelors" maintained a rack and a wall locker in the barracks.
You could have a beer in the E Club without Battalion/Squadron, Regiment/Group, and Division/Wing SACOs getting ARI reports about it from their snitches.
If someone said they were with "Outlaws Powerline," you asked, "H&MS-12 or H&MS-13?"
You sent newbies over to Flight Line to get a "6115 Punch."
You sent newbies over to Avionics to get a "6315 Stack."
You were deployed to "Team Spirit" with the ROKs.
You prayed Gunny wouldn't assign you to mess duty until you made Corporal.
You said "BAM" and then vehemently insisted it stood for Beautiful American Marine.
You referred to HMM-166 as "The Bullwinkles."
You referred to HMH-462 as "Screw Crew."
You got really, really annoyed when the Bullwinkles or Screw Crew referred to HMH-466 as "the Poodle-Pack."
You typed aircraft logbook entries on a manual typewriter.
You typed the entire freakin' Monthly Maintenance Plan on a manual typewriter.
When your shop got an IBM DisplayWriter, you ended up destroying the keyboard because you hit the keys as hard as you did on a manual typewriter.
You still remember commands from WordStar. Hell, you still remember commands from MS-DOS.
You had iron sights on an M16A1 and shot possibles at 500 meters.
You fam-fired a .45 ACP.
You used a map, a compass, and a protractor. And got lost less often than guys with GPS do today.
"Geographic bachelors" maintained a rack and a wall locker in the barracks.
You could have a beer in the E Club without Battalion/Squadron, Regiment/Group, and Division/Wing SACOs getting ARI reports about it from their snitches.
If someone said they were with "Outlaws Powerline," you asked, "H&MS-12 or H&MS-13?"
You sent newbies over to Flight Line to get a "6115 Punch."
You sent newbies over to Avionics to get a "6315 Stack."
You were deployed to "Team Spirit" with the ROKs.
You prayed Gunny wouldn't assign you to mess duty until you made Corporal.
You said "BAM" and then vehemently insisted it stood for Beautiful American Marine.
You referred to HMM-166 as "The Bullwinkles."
You referred to HMH-462 as "Screw Crew."
You got really, really annoyed when the Bullwinkles or Screw Crew referred to HMH-466 as "the Poodle-Pack."
You typed aircraft logbook entries on a manual typewriter.
You typed the entire freakin' Monthly Maintenance Plan on a manual typewriter.
When your shop got an IBM DisplayWriter, you ended up destroying the keyboard because you hit the keys as hard as you did on a manual typewriter.
You still remember commands from WordStar. Hell, you still remember commands from MS-DOS.
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That's my church key, my P38's and door key for my room in Conn Barracks, Germany, HHC 2/64AR Med Plt
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You took exhaust samples from the Bradley fighting Vehicles in clear plastic bags and tagged by bumper numbers. (not such a thing but the new guys dont know that)
When you asked supply for a foot of flight line, a prick E7 radio or a box of grid squares. By the way as a new Marine the prick E7 joke cost me a lot of sweat on a 4 day weekend.
When you asked supply for a foot of flight line, a prick E7 radio or a box of grid squares. By the way as a new Marine the prick E7 joke cost me a lot of sweat on a 4 day weekend.
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Wow, I guess that makes me old. 14 of 14. Well, I never saw a tactical nuke, but we still had them, I understand.
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It's STRAC (Strategic Army Corps) now XVIII Abn Corps, yes I remember all of it. My PEBD is 9 Feb 66. I qualified with the M1, M1 Carbine and the M14 besides the "modern weapons". Yes I had tapered starched fatigues and a starched field jacket. I have a service number and the first tank I served on was a gasser.
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