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Old 12-16-2021, 18:08   #16
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I was at KAF...Kandahar Airfield (huge base) and a few rockets came in...the next day every ind. on that base put in for their 'Combat Action Badge'.....yes, we were knee deep in hand grenade pins.... I didn't get out of my bunk.
When I got out of the hospital in Japan and was sent back to VN, I was picked for the Div HQ XO forward. We had over 50 2ndLT and 500 EM. 40% of my workload was planning escort duty with the post MPs to the local JAG office for summary adjudications. Most were potheads, barrack fights, and/or petty crime. The dealers & sellers got time in LBJ before receiving dishonorables. They made them complete their "Tour"

Completely sold me on NEVER again accepting a staff assignment
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Old 12-16-2021, 18:40   #17
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When I got out of the hospital in Japan and was sent back to VN, I was picked for the Div HQ XO forward. We had over 50 2ndLT and 500 EM. 40% of my workload was planning escort duty with the post MPs to the local JAG office for summary adjudications. Most were potheads, barrack fights, and/or petty crime. The dealers & sellers got time in LBJ before receiving dishonorables. They made them complete their "Tour"

Completely sold me on NEVER again accepting a staff assignment
Long Binh Jail lol.... 'hey, where'd you get those slippers' ...had a company clerk ( C Co,2/14th 25th ID) that had a pair...he supposedly cleaned up down there and the Company got him back but no... sent him back. How and where he got the hard stuff no idea. One of the local Viets I suspect. He wasn't a bad kid either...just got hooked smoking laced stuff.
He was the closest we got to knowing a REMF really...Co level guys that stayed in the rear..armorer/ etc. 1SG didn't stay in the field either...we had a Field First that was an SFC.
Top already had 3 tours tho so we got that...starting as a SSG. so he did literally years in the field.
I dream about that shit in my old age.
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Old 12-16-2021, 22:45   #18
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Makes me long for simpler times...

When strippers were strippers and officers were officers...

much less confusing.
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Old 12-16-2021, 23:24   #19
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When strippers were strippers and officers were officers...

much less confusing.
No kidding....
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Old 12-17-2021, 08:21   #20
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When strippers were strippers and officers were officers...
much less confusing.
Don't you mean "When strippers were strippers, and LTs at Benning married 'em"?
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Old 12-17-2021, 08:29   #21
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In all fairness to the officers on the boards here - it isn't just the Lieutenants getting married to strippers.
More than just a few enlisted paratroopers at Ft Bragg met their first wife in a place with the word "lounge" in the name...
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Old 12-17-2021, 10:26   #22
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In all fairness to the officers on the boards here - it isn't just the Lieutenants getting married to strippers.
More than just a few enlisted paratroopers at Ft Bragg met their first wife in a place with the word "lounge" in the name...
...and they were all from Seoul......
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Old 12-18-2021, 01:36   #23
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Lookin a bit chunky there for a stripper....
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Calling her planet sized would be fat shaming, but calling her a planetoid located in our solar system would be both body positive and inclusive.
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