You know you are past your expiriy date...

[Jungle]

... you could tell that "whoooosh-whoooosh" was a man crawling and "whoosh-whoosh" was a moose walking on the PPS-15 radar.

 

[Edward Campbell]

... you could tell that "whoooosh-whoooosh" was a man crawling and "whoosh-whoosh" was a moose walking on the PPS-15 radar.

Which was a big step up from the AN/PPS 4 and the T1 weapon sight and a few other modern aids available to the Recce Pl some 45 to 50ish years ago.

 

[GAP]

Eating C-rations in 1968 with a 1943 date stamp.....
  The Ham and Lima beans were still crappy, but the weiners & beans were prized!!

 

[Northalbertan]

Trocedaros in Lahr.
Base Defence Force.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Spending a weekend in downtown Victoria, B.C. with $50 and still having money left over on Monday morning.

 

[armyvern]

MMMMmmmmm, bacon in a can.  ;D

 

[George Wallace]

Piss tubes in the trg area.

Piss tubes!

How about digging the latrines, and later when we became less gender specific, putting up hessian to give privacy.  ;D

Then filling them in and putting up signs: "FOUL GROUND"


Cutting foilage for camming vehicles.

 

[The Bread Guy]

- canned bacon, heated on top of a Coleman lantern (beat me to it, Vern)

- being amazed/pleased at how new your 8Lxxxx FN is

- getting dumped on for using Brasso on the gas plug

 

[George Wallace]

Jumping in your C/S at WTP and driving towards Petersville and turning right at the Ford (Pre Bridge days); then driving your C/S three km up the river to the next bridge and exiting with a spotlessly clean suspension.  (Always remember to pump up your "Submersion Hydralics"  ;D )

 

[mariomike]

How about digging the latrines, and later when we became less gender specific, putting up hessian to give privacy.  ;D
Then filling them in and putting up signs: "FOUL GROUND"

I read a funny story, I think told by General Patton, that during World War One French civilians thought one of those was an American grave, and decorated it with flowers.

Staying on topic, only in extreme cold weather, having to give a couple of strokes with the dole primer pump to start up the deuce and a halfs.

 

[armyvern]

Then filling them in and putting up signs: "FOUL GROUND"

Gawd. How about actually being old enough to remember the time when we actually COULD DIG a trench ... only to discover that some asshole had previously placed a latrine at said location and had FAILED to place the sign ...

It was probably you!

 

[George Wallace]

CAT SANITATION        :camo:

 

[421_434_226]

You not only know what a "pack how" is you also know how to dis and re assemble it.
You know how to bore sight the 106 recoiless and the 50 cal spotter

 

[Old Sweat]

CAT SANITATION        :camo:

Is that when you lick your paws after you take a crap?

 

[Jammer]

Centurions at the tank park in Lahr.
Recce Sqn had an Air Troop.

 

[vonGarvin]

-  The updates to the various publications were sent to all the units, and the unit library had to manually insert them into said publications.
-  The signaller in the CP had to dial in CHU Canada to get the time signal to ensure that the time check was good.
-  You knew when someone was back from the ranges due to the redness and swelling under their right eye.

 

[armyvern]

-  The updates to the various publications were sent to all the units, and the unit library had to manually insert them into said publications.

You worked in the section that worked the plates to order the pubs and their subsequent ammendments ... and shipped out those ammendments to all the plated Units and had to manually ammended the stock record cards to record all the movement to and fro. Fack.

 

[medicineman]

-  You knew when someone was back from the ranges due to the redness and swelling under their right eye.

Ahh, chipmunk cheeks, how I miss those days...hey, speaking of which, screwing around with someone's gas regulator AND OR gas piston to accentuate said cheeks.

If you were a guy wearing combat bras in the field, you had a C2 and not moobs.

MM

 

[armyvern]

If you were a guy wearing combat bras in the field, you had a C2 and not moobs.

Too true!!

:rofl:

 

[George Wallace]

- You were the guy who ran off all the unit Routine Orders on the Gestetner Machine.

- You drank your coffee to the "NATO Standard".

- There was a beer machine in the Mess Hall.