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Tuesday, September 23, 2003

You know you’re an old soldier when . . .
John at aargghh! (what a blog name) has a post about the Old Army that took me way back. Of course, when I entered active duty in 1977, the Old Army was the pre-Vietnam Army.

You know you’re an old soldier when . . .

You know what GDP means and still remember where yours was and how long it took to occupy.
You remember when the M8 Claymore and M72 LAW were part of CTT.
You know what a Gama Goat and GOER were and could fix an M151A2 to run off one prop shaft.
You can remember going to the Club at Graf, drinking, and watching Margaret.
You know what a CEOI is and you can encrypt grids.
You remember battalion commanders and 1SG's who were Vietnam Vets. (When I joined 2d Infantry Division, not only were all the battalion and brigade commanders Vietnam vets, at least half the battery commanders were, too. And quite a few of the howitzer-section chiefs were, and all the NCOs E7 and up.)
You can navigate at night without a GPS.

He has a total of 53 bullets, and almost all of them were quite familiar to me. To which I would add:

You know what "charts and darts" means and can use a GFT to calculate angle of site.

You know what it meant to hear the words, "Meet me green" on a tactical radio.

You wore your Class B tans on their wearout date and bemoaned their permanent departure.

You know what TWs were.

You remember when you could not wear jungle boots with the green canvas, but wanted to real bad.

You carried a .45-caliber, M1911A1 and not a sissy 9mm cap gun.

Your M151 was older than your driver.

A howitzer battalions’s basic load did not include FASCAM, RAAM, or Copperhead but still included ILLUM, and no one had heard of a GLLD.

FOs were 2LTs, not sergeants.

You know what VOLAR stood for.

Training schedules were reproduced on mimeograph machines.

You pulled "ville duty" every so often (they may still do this, though).

by Donald Sensing, 9/23/2003 06:46:25 AM. Permalink |

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