Every time I see or think of that line....I imagine someone saying that at REAL basic training. Especially Marine Corps training! Imagine that recruits stay!
Ooohh, the Navy gets the gravy but the Army gets the beans!
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
Posts: 6025 | Location: Central Texas | Registered: September 14, 2003
C'mon, it's Czechoslovakia. We zip in, we pick 'em up, we zip right out again. We're not going to Moscow. It's Czechoslovakia. It's like we're going into Wisconsin.
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
Posts: 6785 | Location: North Carolina | Registered: April 30, 2003
We're in Italy. The guy on the top bunk has gotta make the guy on the bottom bunk's bed... It's in the regulations.
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get from the left to the right, hey! He stepped outta rank got hit by a tank! He ain't no chicken no more, Hey!
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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers
Posts: 6393 | Location: Mogadishu on the Mississippi | Registered: February 26, 2009
We owe it to Sgt Hulka to wind up face down in the gutter tonight.
Have any of you ever given a girl the 'Aunt Jemima Treatment'? I still can't believe that silly crap actually can loosen a girl up, but it worked for me! Several times.This message has been edited. Last edited by: 83v45magna,
Posts: 7466 | Location: Dallas | Registered: August 04, 2011
So you guys got a - what - 6-8 week training program? a real tough one? Which is PERFECT for a guy like me. I'm gonna come outta here a LEAN, MEAN fightin' machine!
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Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Posts: 8940 | Location: Florida | Registered: September 20, 2004
_____________________________ "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington.
Posts: 5325 | Location: Pottstown, PA | Registered: April 26, 2002