Murph Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Disclaimer, I have been through it three times already (I am one of the lucky ones who have to go in more frequently). I literally laughed until I could no longer breath properly, and tears were running down my face. If you have not experienced this, get ready, you will, and if you have, you will understand why this is so darn funny. https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunday Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Seat belt on the commode... Use a Saturn V launch pad as a commode... Elon Musk's SpaceX showing interest... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 23, 2023 Author Share Posted September 23, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 Shit!!! That means I'm older than an old fart! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Niehorster Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 There are items depicted there that came into use AFTER my time in the US Army. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Interesting floor, I haven't seen many of those. Also it looks like a sheer curtain is touching an electric baseboard heater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 On 8/25/2023 at 10:34 AM, Murph said: Disclaimer, I have been through it three times already (I am one of the lucky ones who have to go in more frequently). I literally laughed until I could no longer breath properly, and tears were running down my face. If you have not experienced this, get ready, you will, and if you have, you will understand why this is so darn funny. https://www.miamiherald.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/dave-barry/article1928847.html Well, I mail a sample of my poo to a lab in Wisconsin for testing about once a year. Interesting container and instructions. I must say I never thought I would need to time a bowel movement with U.P.S. shipping schedules 😲 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 24, 2023 Author Share Posted September 24, 2023 LOL! I get to do it every five instead of ten years. Lucky me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 24, 2023 Author Share Posted September 24, 2023 Other than the vest, and the large canteen, I used all of this stuff in the 1980's. I guess I am an old fart as well. I have three of those poncho liners at the house. They are just wonderful. I had one cut up and sewn into a rain coat as a "Graf Jacket". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 Never heard of a poncho liner until many years after I ETSed. M16A2 came out after as well. And I never saw that fluff on the helmet either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FALightFighter Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 3 hours ago, Tim Sielbeck said: Never heard of a poncho liner until many years after I ETSed. M16A2 came out after as well. And I never saw that fluff on the helmet either. Poncho liner was Vietnam era, at least, if not before. The ragtop helmet covers were mostly a light infantry thing- 7th ID(L) and 25th ID(L)- from the mid-80s through inactivation of 7th, and 25th discontinued them ~1997. I reported in December 1997, and they were still in the shops off post, but no one had them any more. I know that 2-505th from the 82nd used them in Grenada, too, but that is the earliest pictures I've seen of them. I came in in 1993, and used everything except whatever is to the right of the ALICE, above the PASGT- I just don't recognize it. Of course, my ARNG unit still have M1911s, an M3 grease gun, and the old Korean War-era OD winter gear, too, so.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 24, 2023 Author Share Posted September 24, 2023 We had just started to turn in the old steel pots for the PASGT helmet when I got to Germany in 1983. I liked the steel pot, you could sit on it if need be, and heat water in it. Poncho liners are the greatest invention of mankind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Sielbeck Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 24 minutes ago, Murph said: Poncho liners are the greatest invention of mankind. I feel cheated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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