Funny military memes, B.S., and shotgun club!

I’m the same way to a point, there was a time when I’d hear “thank you for your service” and just cringe. Now I’ve backed off of that because I realize that for allot of people having access to active/veteran types is limited so it helps them verbalize their gratitude, and while they are speaking directly to me I accept that they are actually addressing all of our brothers and sisters past and present and reply with a polite, “it was my honor.”

Free or discount meals on Veterans Day are a no go for me because I don’t dig crowds and am not cool with whipping out my ID for members of the general public. We usually start the day at the VFW for breakfast and then a bunch of us end up at the local National Cemetery to visit the graves of friends and family ending with a day of quiet reflection at home.

 

If I go anywhere, it is Red Robin for a burger. When I do, I leave the price of the food as a tip.

 

I could tear up some fries

 

Life in the Australian Army............


Dear Mum & Dad,
Eromanga, QLD

I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the station - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs to clean - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!

At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the bullock paddock!!

This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody dingo's arse and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!

Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.

Your loving daughter,
Susan

 

I think that's actually interchangeable in this instance.

 

Eromanga is proper “bogan” country for Queensland. Some interesting characters emerge from that region. Most all hard as nails but not always as sharp.

 

But pretty much all of them are someone you want on YOUR side in a fight!

 

Certainly keen to have Susan in my corner.

 

Didnt even know we had another carrier being built. Awesome.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/uss-kennedy-operate-f-35s-144600828.html

Here is what she looks like apparently. AND we have a new Enterprise being built along with a 4th new one slotted to start.

 

Yeah, the Nimitz class all need to retire. Supercarriers are the future, and their electromagnetic catapults are the shit.

 

Right? What do you mean I'm writing my own NCOER...