You might be old-school if....

I told my dad once in about 93, when he asked about all the new fangled gear in the Corps. I told him new hell, I got all his left overs from Vietnam (true story).

He said so you're the one that got it. Everything I was issued was from WWII. (Also a true story)

In 93 I had green jungle boots, an Alice pack, a shelter half and a sleeping bag originally issued in 64 and we had PRC 77's for coms.
 
Yea, and what's your point?? That we LIVED through all that crap?? On the bright side, we're dropping dead every day....

Simmer down....

We have vets from all generations. I would venture to guess some have never had the pleasure of humping an ALICE and receiving the unique bruises over the kidneys. This is how vets connect...we share stories.
 
As a Mech mortar maggot in '89, our M106A2 gun track was Vietnam era, we had at least one gun tube with a mfr date of 1949 & God only knows when our M2 was built.
 
I am not a vet, but..

Pretty sure my old man stole everything that wasn't nailed down while he was in.
I was sent to kindergarten with C-rats as my lunch, the PB&J was vile.
Every flashlight in the house was an OD right angle with multiple colored lenses.

Still carry a P-38 on my key chain, a habit I apparently inherited.
 
I told my dad once in about 93, when he asked about all the new fangled gear in the Corps. I told him new hell, I got all his left overs from Vietnam (true story).

He said so you're the one that got it. Everything I was issued was from WWII. (Also a true story)

In 93 I had green jungle boots, an Alice pack, a shelter half and a sleeping bag originally issued in 64 and we had PRC 77's for coms.
I had 10 years in in 93!!! When I got in, I was issued 2 set of the new fangled Elvis collar BDUs and 2 sets of OG 109s. Then they took the OGs up and I got 2 more sets of BDUs. And a PRC 77 was kinda new then!
 
I saw this on another forum. You vets, add to it.

Examples:

You remember jungle boots with green sides

You had gen 1 BDUs with the elvis collar and "jungle green" colors

You had ALICE, and had never heard of MOLLE
Well, I'm old school!
 
Huey blasts from 3k just because...
...the PRC 77 with a KY57 VINSON and a CEOI on 55o cord around my neck, tucked into my og107 top and tied off through a button hole...and losing that was worse than a lost weapon.
...M16A1's and 1911's
....the real HAY STREET (Rick's Lounge, Rosies, The Seven Dwarfs...)
....The Flaming Mug
...Drinking Infantry grog from a bronzed jungle boot (1 bottle Jack, 1 six pack PBR, 1 bottle hot sauce, 1 canteen iodine water, a measure of sand, a bag of saline solution...)
...blood rank and wings was ritual and not hazing
 
...your PAC was led by a SPEC 7, not an E7 and your BN had a CSC instead of a D Co and you rode around in jeeps, not hummers.

...you ever pushed a deadlined jeep from your motor pool into a sister BNs motor pool and repainted bumper numbers so you would pass inspection on Monday
 
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I saw this on another forum. You vets, add to it.

Examples:

You remember jungle boots with green sides

You had gen 1 BDUs with the elvis collar and "jungle green" colors

You had ALICE, and had never heard of MOLLE

Definitely old school.

You were issue a M16A1 and not M4.

Berets were worn by Green Beret.

LBE and Alice Packs were immortal.

Drill Sgts verbally and physically kicked your ass.

Jodie has more children than Ghangis Khan.
 
I am not a vet, but..

Pretty sure my old man stole everything that wasn't nailed down while he was in.
I was sent to kindergarten with C-rats as my lunch, the PB&J was vile.
Every flashlight in the house was an OD right angle with multiple colored lenses.

Still carry a P-38 on my key chain, a habit I apparently inherited.
When I was a kid we had a lot of those green flashlights around our house, too. I had forgotten about them.
 
I told my dad once in about 93, when he asked about all the new fangled gear in the Corps. I told him new hell, I got all his left overs from Vietnam (true story).

He said so you're the one that got it. Everything I was issued was from WWII. (Also a true story)

In 93 I had green jungle boots, an Alice pack, a shelter half and a sleeping bag originally issued in 64 and we had PRC 77's for coms.
Wish I had PRC77.
 
Huey blasts from 3k just because...
...the PRC 77 with a KY57 VINSON and a CEOI on 55o cord around my neck, tucked into my og107 top and tied off through a button hole...and losing that was worse than a lost weapon.
...M16A1's and 1911's
....the real HAY STREET (Rick's Lounge, Rosies, The Seven Dwarfs...)
....The Flaming Mug
...Drinking Infantry grog from a bronzed jungle boot (1 bottle Jack, 1 six pack PBR, 1 bottle hot sauce, 1 canteen iodine water, a measure of sand, a bag of saline solution...)
...blood rank and wings was ritual and not hazing
I started out as a 13F FO. The CEOI was brutal, mine was as thick as a notebook! And Rick's!
 
While I was Navy, I grew up in the Marines, and had a bunch of Army family, too, some of whom are in Fayetteville. I recall when the Stockade was Delta (because everyone knew it and pointed it out); at Camp Lejeune, I remember when the hospital was at Hospital Point, before they moved it.

When I was in we had the whole evolution of LBE: started off with the suspenders, two canteens, pistol belt, flak jacket...moved to the gen I MOLLE vest (pockets/pouches), then to gen II (just the MOLLE strips so you could attach your own), finally traded the ALICE for the POC MOLLE pack. Still had the shelter half, old mess kit, combat woobie (best thing I was ever issued).
 
UH-1 Hueys
M16A1 with the green sling
Breaking starch
Yep. UH1H Huey's, MOS 67N. 71-16103 our tail number. M16A1 w/20 round mags. In Germany I had aM203 on mine.
Didn't have to break starch with the two piece nomex flight suits!!!!
 
Of course, being Navy/Marine I had my own uniform hell, but I really wish I could have got a set of the old OD or ERDL poplin jungle utilities. I do recall see them at the Ft Bragg PX in the 80s.
 
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I am not a vet, but..

Pretty sure my old man stole everything that wasn't nailed down while he was in.
I was sent to kindergarten with C-rats as my lunch, the PB&J was vile.
Every flashlight in the house was an OD right angle with multiple colored lenses.

Still carry a P-38 on my key chain, a habit I apparently inherited.


I tried to enlist twice, but a Horse Kick when I was 12 made me a medical reject, but I have my Dads old P-38 on my keychain. I guess I'm old but in the 60s he used to take me and my brother to the hanger with him to work. Those airplanes were our jungle gym.
 
What is CEOI?
Communications-Electronics Operating Instructions. It was a thick book with all of your unit and surrounding units call signs and frequency charts, challenge and passwords, and times for changing them. If you lost one, it was you're ass, big time! Mine was about 4x6 and about 5 inches thick. I kept it on a lanyard of 550 cord connected to my field gear.
 
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All THAT is "Old School"? We trained with M14s then got issued Sp1s for about 4 months...then A1s. Lil teensy bullets and toy guns without any wood on 'em? No more BOOM!, just a POP! ? 113s n 4s that had chevy 283s that they hadda paint OD at first, then they came factory painted from the crate. I once traded one for an HU-1 in a crate for a push button radio for the old man's jeep. I remember being questioned as to why my jeep needed so many universal joints. ( A Muncie short throw would have cured that ). If I ever find that pic of me beside my track with "Country Joe" painted on the back quarters, I'll post it. My utilities ( weren't even called BDUs back then) had the knees ripped from leg steerin so I had both hands free to roll ;)
 
Communications-Electronics Operating Instructions. It was a thick book with all of your unit and surrounding units call signs and frequency charts, challenge and passwords, and times for changing them. If you lost one, it was you're ass, big time! Mine was about 4x6 and about 5 inches thick. I kept it on a lanyard of 550 cord connected to my field gear.

Same as or different than SOI? I remember the SOI.
 
We trained with M14s then got issued Sp1s for about 4 months...then A1s. ......

My utilities ( weren't even called BDUs back then) had the knees ripped from leg steerin so I had both hands free to roll ;)

I have a picture of my dad somewhere rappelling down a cliff with an M14 wearing tiger stripes.

As far as having both hands free to roll....whatever it is you needed to roll.....:cool: right on
 
I have a picture of my dad somewhere rappelling down a cliff with an M14 wearing tiger stripes.

As far as having both hands free to roll....whatever it is you needed to roll.....:cool: right on

As the Haitian staff Sgt. wrote in the report... "The Specialist was in the process of rolling what is believed to be a left handed cigarette." ...Article 15, fine of $100 no loss in rank. :D
 
I have a picture of my dad somewhere rappelling down a cliff with an M14 wearing tiger stripes.

I had an obscure cousin was in SF in VN, he had a set of the tiger stripes. I had the jacket for the longest time and is seemed to disappear when I was a teenager.

As screwed up as the Vietnam war was, it gave us some cool uniforms...
 
I saw this on another forum. You vets, add to it.

Examples:

You remember jungle boots with green sides

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My Army career in one picture, start to finish.
 
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