Military Rules
on 10/02/2007 at 08:59 AM
I’ve seen a slightly diffrent one, also submited by a Marine. In that one it was
Army
Select a new color of beret
Make a pot of coffee
Reconsider color of beret selected
Ask the Navy to send in the Marines.The same e-mail also had a comparison of dogs to the branches of service.
Marines, dobermans and rotweillers because marines come in two types, big and mean, and small and mean.
Army, sheepdog because it takes a while to get moving, but once he’s moving he aint stopping until he’s done.
Navy, golden retriever because they play in water, and kids love em.
Air Force, poodle because its fluffed, primped, but under it all, its still a hunting dog at heart.
This is from memory, and not the text. While all us service member types love to pick on each other and name call, we also know that its more in fun then anything, and respect and love our brothers and sisters in arms.Jeremy -
Agree with you on the service members picking on each other.
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Hee, hee, hee - kind of reminds me of an old AF joke -
You know what PT in the Air Force is?
Get up out of your chair, walk to the front door of the building you are in, open it, lean outside to look at the grass, say, ‘Yep, it’s still there.’
My absolute fav - was called Ranks (found it in the Ft. Ord paper in 1976) and would love to find it again. It started with General - giving policy to God (among other ‘attributes’) and ended with the SGT Major - who is God. Had it framed but alas along with a diamond ring, an autographed (by both author and illustrator - now both dead) book and a few dozen other things (to include a lawn mower and our entire backyard equipment [Lawton, OK - they went through our entire storage, while we were in the FRG]) - have gone the way of 5 finger discounts from many, many (way too many) movers.
Always said (Dad & 1 nephew - Navy, Hubby, ex-hubby, bro, son, 2 nephews - Army, daughter & her hubby and a cousin - Marine) if you can’t laugh at yourself and life - well you have no sense of humor.
The reason the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines bicker amongst themselves is that they don’t speak the same language. For instance, Take the simple phrase “secure the building”.
The Army will post guards around the place.
The Navy will turn out the lights and lock the doors.
The Marines will kill everybody inside and set up a headquarters.
The Air Force will take out a 5 year lease with an option to buy.
A few Navy terms from my younger days:
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They also schooled at Great Lakes near Chicago so you had a certain friendly contempt. Not to mention the most notorious girl busted on base for prostitution (and spreading VD) in 1987 was a Coastie. Thank God I missed out on that experience!! I knew of a couple of guys who didn’t.
My first boat USS Rodney M Davis FFG 60 “The Rodney Dangerfield”
My second boat USS Fife DD991 “The Barney Fife” or more often…
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E veryone**The first Captain (this cadaverous looking goof ball with ears like an elephant’s) had a real problem with letting us off the boat anywhere we might actually have fun. Seems it was against his religion.
Not only that, on BOTH boats when we were in Home port (Yokosuka, Japan), at least 80% of the time we pulled out to sea on a Friday or Saturday and returned on Monday morning for training ops (thus forcing us to work the whole damn weekend and then work the whole week afterwards).
All of this was when we were not on longer trips like the 4 (5 - 6 month) deployments I had in 4 years to the land of sand-eating camel-lovers. Or chasing the Russians, the Japanese Navy, or some freaking US politician around the Western Pacific. We averaged almost 300 days away from Yoko every year.
7th Fleet in Yokosuka - Tokyo Yacht Club
7th Fleet in Hawaii - The Pineapple FleetThe cruiser USS Sterrett home ported in Subic Bay - Stare At (longingly - as in you lucky bastards get to live there!!!).
In October 1990, an “accident” on the “Stare At” damaged her main reduction gear (steam turbines to drive shaft) and kept her from sailing to Operation Desert Storm. This forced the Aegis cruiser USS Mobil Bay (which had just arrived in Japan and was still trying to get families into housing and services for maintenance arranged) to be deployed in her place. There were a lot of rumors that orders came all the way from 7th Fleet that the Sterrett was never to be allowed in any port with the Mobil Bay due to concerns involving the potential for accidental firings of live ammunition (somebody mentioned Tomahawks but that seemed...wasteful).
Another term for sailors - Squids (which are a form of sea life that shits all over Marine life).
