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

just needs K9 P

 

Best cleaning solvent EVER!!

 

When I was in Basic, one day while we were on the Obstacle Course, we had a 3 Star and his posse wandering among the obstacles watching us. That was by far the highest ranking officer I ever saw in the flesh during my 3 years in. And the only flag rank, period.

 

I used to take smoke breaks with our 2-star during Desert Storm. Cool dude - former oscar deuce pilot in Vietnam and went out of his way to stay out of everyone else's. Great leadership example.

 

Awesome experience.

Since I served only during pure peace time, I can only speculate, but I have a very strong feeling that during "war time", the overall relationship between enlisted and officers changes quite a bit. As well as other aspects of military life. Other than a very rare event, my platoon/company members never had any interaction with even our own company officers. The amusing example of:

No combat ready unit has ever passed inspection.
No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat.

Different priorities, different focus. And also, during peacetime, the top brass have nothing "real" to focus attention on, so "busy work" and seemingly ludicrous shit becomes all important. For example, at my permanent duty station after training, we had 12 of us (same MOS) in the same workshop, with hardly any regular work to do. So our section NCO had us do tool box inventory on a weekly basis; we would occasionally have mock E5 promotion boards to make sure everyone was at their peak readiness; we had weekly generic training on things like "Gas mask and MOPP Gear", map reading, first aid,....... just to fill the day and keep us all from falling asleep.

 

If you’re not early, you’re late.

 

the strongest difference between a Ranger element and any regular army unit was the ability to instantly remove anyone that didn't meet standards.

there are other differences, but that's the big one.

 

My wife printed that full page, hung it on a door on her ship.

 

CMC at MCRD
Not me, though I did work with him in GITMO. Insufferable prick.