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So, just found out today the Army wants to send my happy crusty retired civilian ass to Germany the last week of September for a week...guess what that means!!

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This reminds me of a story my old man told me. He was flying for Air America. They didn't have guns. Him and another pilot were trying to pick up a downed crew and these aholes were lighting them up.

My dad pulled up like a gun ship and they dove for cover. While the other helo landed to pick them up.

They realized he didn't have guns and jumped back up shooting and then decided to drop their pants and moon him.

Buuuuuut they didn't know the old man had called in for napalm about 5 min before.

He said they turned back around to shoot at him again and then saw the canisters coming. He said the look on their faces right before they got toasted is to this day the funniest thing he's ever seen.
 
I actually did "almost join" but was too fat.

Kinda funny story really. When I was around 23/24 I started reading the Horatio Hornblower series. Got really really into it. Read the entire series in a matter of weeks. Got it in my head I wanted a life at sea like Horatio. I was also heavily into drinking and making poor decisions. So one day I am like "Ima join the coast guard so I can go help people." I walk into the recruiters office and he talks to me a bit and we go to a scale. I was 35 lbs over weight and he tells me that if I can drop 35 lbs in 30 days I could make it into the next intake class or whatever.

I was like "35 in less than a month?" Naaaah...

Long story short, I was a fat lazy kid who didn't want to actually try. So my "I almost joined" story isn't glorious...it is in fact extremely embarrassing now. It's kinda the opposite of "stolen valor". It's more like "earned cowardice."


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Long_Hunter said:
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Because I was medical, I had keys to the S4 shop. Not the warehouse, but the offices, where they did have several large storage closets. I had keys because one of the closets had the "easy consumables" for us...4x4s, band-aids, kerlix, etc., and that way I could go in whenever to resupply. One evening, as I was prepping to go to the field, I noticed they, too, were prepping to go to the field, and several cases of MREs were out. I got the other corpsmen and we got the pick of the boxes, plus about 4 extra per person. We ate well. Very well.
 
I miss Country Captains Chicken and Chicken Tetrazini.
 
JimB said:
Is there anywhere except in the service that this phrase would be used to describe the consumption of extra MREs?
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If you got creative you could come up with some pretty good stuff. Cocoa powder, creamer and a little bit of water and you had chocolate icing to put on your shelf bread.

I was in with the freezdried strawberries. Creamer and a little water and you had strawberry shortcake.
 
Tail end of DS we'd stop in Fujairah for gas, apparently that was the UAEs contribution to the war effort, free JP5.

They'd bring over a forklift with nearly 30-40 cases of MREs. Some guys lived on that shit and saved their per diem. One guy saved $10k on deployment by eating MREs alone.

I doubt he was able to shit more than three times in six months though.


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sr30 said:
Tail end of DS we'd stop in Fujairah for gas, apparently that was the UAEs contribution to the war effort, free JP5.

They'd bring over a forklift with nearly 30-40 cases of MREs. Some guys lived on that shit and saved their per diem. One guy saved $10k on deployment by eating MREs alone.

I doubt he was able to shit more than three times in six months though.


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There was no way I could like your post, but it's amazing what you will do to save money.
 
sr30 said:
Tail end of DS we'd stop in Fujairah for gas, apparently that was the UAEs contribution to the war effort, free JP5.

They'd bring over a forklift with nearly 30-40 cases of MREs. Some guys lived on that shit and saved their per diem. One guy saved $10k on deployment by eating MREs alone.

I doubt he was able to shit more than three times in six months though.


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I laughed way too much over that one, been a long week...

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