Speaker to Animals wrote:I am sitting here trying to imagine what would have happened if I was caught with a Che t-shirt under my BDUs. That would have resulted in the biggest shit storm ever.
The beatings would not be punished. The details the NCOs would bring forth from their imaginations would be off-the-charts fucking horrible.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I am sitting here trying to imagine what would have happened if I was caught with a Che t-shirt under my BDUs. That would have resulted in the biggest shit storm ever.
The beatings would not be punished. The details the NCOs would bring forth from their imaginations would be off-the-charts fucking horrible.
Dude, that's just the kind of hazing that happens to you when you transfer out of your unit. That's how we showed love. The shit we would do to somebody who was wearing a Che t-shirt under their uniform (which violates regulations, by the way) would be dire.
Speaker to Animals wrote:I am sitting here trying to imagine what would have happened if I was caught with a Che t-shirt under my BDUs. That would have resulted in the biggest shit storm ever.
The beatings would not be punished. The details the NCOs would bring forth from their imaginations would be off-the-charts fucking horrible.
Yes they would. Good Times.
Getting a promotion also meant it was free range for your peers to fuck with you. Walk the Gauntlet was about the best.
"Hoss, it looks like a family of skunks made a home in some port-a-potty out past Lola and died in there. You got volunteered to disinfect the thing. Be careful it doesn't fall over while you are in there, because somebody mentioned it was a little unstable.."
Speaker to Animals wrote:I am sitting here trying to imagine what would have happened if I was caught with a Che t-shirt under my BDUs. That would have resulted in the biggest shit storm ever.
The beatings would not be punished. The details the NCOs would bring forth from their imaginations would be off-the-charts fucking horrible.
Dude, that's just the kind of hazing that happens to you when you transfer out of your unit. That's how we showed love. The shit we would do to somebody who was wearing a Che t-shirt under their uniform (which violates regulations, by the way) would be dire.
Pfft, we got that from Boyscouts when I was growing up... for me though I could get away with it, soap would have been replaced with grenades as a start.
DBTrek wrote:Running the gauntlet to have your stripes pounded into your collar by the platoon, every new rank, no backing.
That was the Army I joined.
Guess I probably got the tail end of the real Army.
Well you earned your stripes back then, today they are given to you by a prick
DBTrek wrote:Running the gauntlet to have your stripes pounded into your collar by the platoon, every new rank, no backing.
That was the Army I joined.
Guess I probably got the tail end of the real Army.
Yeah, me too.
Before I got out in 2013 I could no longer authorize that to happen officially. But NCO's were still doing it off the books and the Newly Promoted asked for the honor of Walking the Gauntlet.
Good Times. 
