Comments on: I want to serve in the 397th http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/ The Official Site of Skippy's List: military humor and other things that make Skippy giggle for more than 15 seconds Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:55:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bryght http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3397 Bryght Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:46:32 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3397 "...Because I wasn’t issued any damn pie, because we weren’t assigned to the 235th Combat Pastry Division." Ahem, that would be the 259th Field Service Company, which used to maintain one of only two combat field bakeries in the Army. ;-) “…Because I wasn’t issued any damn pie, because we weren’t assigned to the 235th Combat Pastry Division.”

Ahem, that would be the 259th Field Service Company, which used to maintain one of only two combat field bakeries in the Army. ;-)

]]> By: PFC Tubbs http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3091 PFC Tubbs Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:20:52 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3091 Good cadence. 'Bout as "interesting" as the cadence with the phrase going something like: In the navy you could do whatever you please In the navy you wear your pants around your knees... Go Army! Refering to the original thread, for me, the Army is what you make of it. Be a douch, be a hero, hell, I joined for 3 meals and a bed. I've seen good officers (oxymoron, I know) and bad ones, but I learned that all in all, people are people. I met some of the greatest people during training (only got out of AIT last year) and some of the worst. Reguardless of all that, I agree with Skippy. Good cadence. ‘Bout as “interesting” as the cadence with the phrase going something like:
In the navy you could do whatever you please
In the navy you wear your pants around your knees…

Go Army!

Refering to the original thread, for me, the Army is what you make of it. Be a douch, be a hero, hell, I joined for 3 meals and a bed. I’ve seen good officers (oxymoron, I know) and bad ones, but I learned that all in all, people are people. I met some of the greatest people during training (only got out of AIT last year) and some of the worst.

Reguardless of all that, I agree with Skippy.

]]> By: Tim http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3040 Tim Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:41:18 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-3040 "Fun Run" Summer 1985, San Antonio, TX. There was a local "Fun Run" to raise money and awareness for something. I was a student at the Combat Medical Specialist School at Ft. Sam Houston. Someone, I don't know who, but someone with rank decided that all the students should participate in the "Fun Run". We were to run in formation at the end of the runners. This was the first mistake. The second mistake, was to have the Special Forces Medic Students call cadence as we ran. I don't remember the whole cadence, it was a new one to me, but what sticks in my mind is the sentence, "Napalm sticks to kids." Imagine 500+ Soldiers, in formation, belting that out as we ran the course. Go ARMY!!!! “Fun Run” Summer 1985, San Antonio, TX. There was a local “Fun Run” to raise money and awareness for something. I was a student at the Combat Medical Specialist School at Ft. Sam Houston. Someone, I don’t know who, but someone with rank decided that all the students should participate in the “Fun Run”. We were to run in formation at the end of the runners. This was the first mistake. The second mistake, was to have the Special Forces Medic Students call cadence as we ran. I don’t remember the whole cadence, it was a new one to me, but what sticks in my mind is the sentence, “Napalm sticks to kids.” Imagine 500+ Soldiers, in formation, belting that out as we ran the course.

Go ARMY!!!!

]]> By: parky http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-2976 parky Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:51:50 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-2976 see chris makes a valad point, as a female ex-troop and a spouse i not only had to put up with "enlisted scum" comments but apparently i was going to seduce their husbands (becouse let me tell you, sweating so much you have salt stains on your clothes is sexy!). THEN to top it off when i separated i was treated like i was using my husbands rank when i was really using MINE!!!! women like that are why i never got involved with our "spouse fun nights". see chris makes a valad point, as a female ex-troop and a spouse i not only had to put up with “enlisted scum” comments but apparently i was going to seduce their husbands (becouse let me tell you, sweating so much you have salt stains on your clothes is sexy!). THEN to top it off when i separated i was treated like i was using my husbands rank when i was really using MINE!!!! women like that are why i never got involved with our “spouse fun nights”.

]]> By: Chris Nordberg http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-2955 Chris Nordberg Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:29:00 +0000 http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/14/i-want-to-serve-in-the-397th/#comment-2955 I spent 25 years in the AF and have a great officer's wife story, or at least an outrageous one. I was in the commisary and had picked up the last package of frozen steak, of some sort. I had decided I didn't want it, but it was still in my hands, when this woman swoops in and snatches it from my dam' hands! Amazing! Of course, then I decided I wanted it after all and proceeded to take it out of her cart and put it in mine, at which point she procedded to the manager's office and started a big ruckus over it, while loudly proclaiming she was Colonel so-and-so's wife and making various "enlisted swine" type coments. This was at Ramstein AB Germany in 1978. I was detained first by the manager, then by the SPs and eventually her HUSBAND showed up. I ended up getting called into the old man's office & lectured - i'm sure it would have been worse had I actually done anything remoterly wrong LOL I spent 25 years in the AF and have a great officer’s wife story, or at least an outrageous one. I was in the commisary and had picked up the last package of frozen steak, of some sort. I had decided I didn’t want it, but it was still in my hands, when this woman swoops in and snatches it from my dam’ hands! Amazing! Of course, then I decided I wanted it after all and proceeded to take it out of her cart and put it in mine, at which point she procedded to the manager’s office and started a big ruckus over it, while loudly proclaiming she was Colonel so-and-so’s wife and making various “enlisted swine” type coments. This was at Ramstein AB Germany in 1978. I was detained first by the manager, then by the SPs and eventually her HUSBAND showed up. I ended up getting called into the old man’s office & lectured - i’m sure it would have been worse had I actually done anything remoterly wrong LOL

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