Bravo57 wrote:That's some good shit right there Ranger!The Holmchicken wrote:Holy Shit!!!!!!
I wrote this?
I thought it applied to what seems to be going on around here lately.
Thanks for getting me a sticky!!! Sweet!!! :D
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The Holmchicken wrote:Bravo57 wrote:That's some good shit right there Ranger!The Holmchicken wrote:Holy Shit!!!!!!
I wrote this?
I thought it applied to what seems to be going on around here lately.
Thanks for getting me all sticky!!! Sweet!!! :D
2 years later?????? :DRangerLee wrote:I don't know I'm just saying....
Gotta be the... nevermind...centermass wrote:2 years later?????? :DRangerLee wrote:I don't know I'm just saying....
Yes...I can believe that. I enlisted in '73, right about the end of the Vietnam war. My first duty station was in Germany. Discipline in Europe at that time was atrocious; largely due to the fact that the NCO Corp had been seriously depleted due to the war and to disgruntled soldiers leaving the military. Morale and Espirit de Corp was in the toilet. At the same time, the Army was transitioning from a draft to a volunteer Army and the learning curve was steep. NCOs were stripped of some of their power to maintain discipline as well; no more "extra duty"; it was Article 15 or nothing. Not to mention the fact that Carter was the President, the economy was bad and the Army's had little fuel or ammo to train and its equipment old and worn out becasue there wasn't any money. Pay was low too; soldiers famlies were on food stamps. It was bad times for the Army all the way around. "Sarge" was commonly used in the leg units that I was around in Germany. That was NOT the case in the Ranger Batts. The 1st and 2nd Ranger Battalions were like an oasis of soldiering in a desert of undicipline.ZoneIV wrote:Well in the big Army at least where I was back in the 80s, "Sarge" wasn't used...