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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Kid, my favorite thing to tell non Navy is "it's okay, not everyone can pass the test to gt in".
When did the navy start rolling clothing? We folded everything bit socks. The jarheadss had their own problems with 'crap on the rack' Worse than a backward hat is that way they barely put it on their head with the bill pointing at some odd angle. Maelin that mens dept was a good line. |
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On 2012-07-23 13:56, MagicSanta wrote: We pretty much folded everything too as I recall. Maybe Kid was talking about when he packed for the field? I think he was a Corpman (or as the Commander in Chief calls it, a "Corpse Man"). Oh yes, those stupid crap on the rack/junk on the bunk inspections. Those we a pain in the butt. The wall lockers ones were easier. We would set up a perfect locker then buy dupilcates of almost everything in there. We used the everyday stuff all the time and only opened the wall locker once a week for inspection. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
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On 2012-07-23 11:35, Marlin1894 wrote: Since he's also wearing sunglasses I can only assume that he forgot to put his hand back down at the end of the National Anthem. Odd, since he remembered to sit back down.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On 2012-07-23 14:59, critter wrote: Could be! His arm may have locked up. The only thing that could have made the pic better is if his sunglasses were upside down on the back of the hat. Which is another thing that is somewhat common these days. |
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kid iowa Loyal user Oklahoma 300 Posts |
Yup, was a Corpsman for the Marines for many years, EVERYTHING was rolled, saved tons of space that way when we went to the field. the extra room we loaded up with geedunk to sell to the Mens Department (shout out to Marlin1894!) at incredibly marked up prices.
Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile...can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, "I served in the United States Navy." J.F.K.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
Wasn't in the military, but after I stopped working in nursing homes I never wanted to make another hospital corner in my life.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Marlin1894 Special user 559 Posts |
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On 2012-07-23 15:13, kid iowa wrote: Ha! Geedunk and pogey bait. I haven't heard either of those in a long time. Good one. |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
My best job was running the gedunk, did about four hours of work a day.
A lot of the grunts had a set of gear just for the crap on a rack (sea for you lubbers) or junk on a bunk. I heard they finally stopped that inspection when a commandant who was a mustang and hated it took over. |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
I still say, at ease, as you were. I still use di di mao, riki tik, most haste for something that needs to be expitited and hoohah or airborne when something is going good or had gone great and rock steady when something needs special attention or fortitude is needed. I refer to my assistants as chogies and I still use the term newbie or rookie (police term). And when I am jogging, I still call cadence in my head.
In the army we also had to lay our gear on the bunks for inspection. Our Seargeant Major was only 5'5" and we had to put a chair next to the bunks so he look on the top bunk. Peace and Godspeed.
Peace
"Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum..." Scott Would you do anything for the person you love? |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
In boot as they inspected your gear they tossed out the window. You knew you passed if your matress wasn't tossed out.
Just a check....anyone not know what a gig line is? How many know what pogie bait is used to catch, hint, the slang for them is pogie. |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
I know what the common parlance for pogie bait is, non issued military food, usually a no-go in the field. In the Army, a poag was a remf, (Rear Echelon M.F.). I know those types always had good non-military rations with them.
Gig line, besides the common parlance, that being the line formed by the shirt buttons, belt buckle and trouser fly which was an inspection criteria during inspections, I remember watching Armed Forces Network (AFN) when I was in Germany and there were these little commercials about military trivia and stuff and one was the term gig line. I remember it being a naval term. Something about people who flunked inspection had to clean the Captain's gig (I can't remember what that was) and the group of sailors cleaning it were called the gig line. During our training exercises, if you were killed, you had to go back to the rear and be "recycled," processed as a new soldier would be. All those who got killed had to do extra P.T. during the first week back in contonement (barracks). Peace and Godspeed.
Peace
"Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum..." Scott Would you do anything for the person you love? |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I meant if civilians knew!
In the Navy/Marines pogie bait is a candy bar and pogie an underage girl. |
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Dreadnought Special user Athens, Georgia 836 Posts |
LOL
I didn't know it was an underage girl to you guys. That now makes the remf assessment even better! Peace and Godspeed.
Peace
"Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus tecum..." Scott Would you do anything for the person you love? |
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George Ledo Magic Café Columnist SF Bay Area 3042 Posts |
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On 2012-07-23 15:57, MagicSanta wrote: Yup. In Basic you could have opened my footlocker anytime and seen a perfectly rolled-up and arranged set of underwear and such. It was the weirdest thing, but after a while I actually felt guilty about it. What was funny was unrolling them after several weeks: they didn't want to go.
That's our departed buddy Burt, aka The Great Burtini, doing his famous Cups and Mice routine
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
In the navy we married underage girls. My pal Harolds wife wa 13 and in was her second marriage.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
Even though I'm now very old I still keep the gig line straight. (Although I often forget to pull up my fly.)
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I am fat, I can't see my fly.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
My Dad's a dirty old hippie now, but he still remembers how to pack efficiently from his military days.
Well, actually, for a hippie he's pretty clean... He did one tour as UDT and one as a SEAL.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
You realize that there are a few of us "dirty old hippies" around here, right?
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts |
I reckon
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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