Is "poove" like silverback speak for pogue? One of the things I really wish I would have paid more attention to back in the day was the jargon. The service and construction are just filled with bizarre names, acronyms, and euphemisms for just about everything. The phrases "Ate up from the ground up", squared away, roger that, and ricky-tick, are still stamped into my brain even 20 odd years later. :D I have always wanted to write something about my totally broken training cycle, as to me it was just pure absurd comedy, but my memory is pure hammered shit.
After 42 days in the Desert Storm Desert in 91 , I broke out the special bar of soap I’d been saving to scrub my rancid caked sand dust ass - Yes it was LAVA. With Pumice.
I needed it. Ass and b@lls too.
As for Ft Benning, the fact that you had the time to think about soap means you’re Sand Hill, I was Harmony Church, so it’s all ok to be picky about what soap-🧼 …. 🌈🦄??
Harmony Church used ashes and gravel to wash. But yer Sand Hill.
It’s all ok now, we’re all cool with Sand Hill being well… gay.
LOL. You must have been the "candyland" that we were threatened with, and how fortunate we were to not be there, cause we wouldn't last the night. This was in 99' so one imagines it was a much kinder and gentler training environment compared to when you went through.
I watched Desert Storm on the TV like everyone else, had the playing cards and everything.
As for the airforce, we did have a guy that had to stand in the formation area for a day and point out anything that flew by and yell "DE PLANE, DE PLANE, DE PLANE!" cause he lost a laser (Peq-4 or some such?) on FTX.
Fun Fact; Since the last name was a hassle I was Pvt. Fuckstick.
I think mine was Delta co. 2/19 INF, would have been 2000? I need to dig up my box of the past. I remember pretty distinctly the DIs saying shit had REALLY changed in the previous years, Something about a soccer like card system where if you were getting shark attacked you could pull out a card and they would have to leave you alone? 😂 It feels impossible that could have ever been a thing, but given some of the shit that went down during my cycle and part of the motivation for me bugging out is some of that fuckery.
So it WAS fucking real! You never know with this stuff. Like one of the things I def remember was training in MOP(?) level 4 and them being like "Men, if you need to be wearing all this in combat, it is very likely you will already be dead." but even knowing that might be the case, we still had to do the dance when we heard "GASGASGAS!". :D
If nerve gas said the NBC NCO apply 9mm auto injector (eat gun)
And do it quick
A horrid death.
In truth if you are in MOPP4 and not in enormous concentration of Chem it should work.
Should.
The French solved this problem in 1991 by having Mitterrand say publicly that France has an Independent nuclear alternative and if Saddam used Chemical the French would use nuclear.
So the French went round comfortable while we became Chimney sweeps, because Activated Charcoal gets all on everything with dust.
Even then our strategic leadership was worthless, but we had so much proficiency and tactical excellence that it didn’t matter.
Soap? 🧼
Ok poove 🦄
Is "poove" like silverback speak for pogue? One of the things I really wish I would have paid more attention to back in the day was the jargon. The service and construction are just filled with bizarre names, acronyms, and euphemisms for just about everything. The phrases "Ate up from the ground up", squared away, roger that, and ricky-tick, are still stamped into my brain even 20 odd years later. :D I have always wanted to write something about my totally broken training cycle, as to me it was just pure absurd comedy, but my memory is pure hammered shit.
It’s Brit speak for Fag. Poove.
I trained and worked with British
After 42 days in the Desert Storm Desert in 91 , I broke out the special bar of soap I’d been saving to scrub my rancid caked sand dust ass - Yes it was LAVA. With Pumice.
I needed it. Ass and b@lls too.
As for Ft Benning, the fact that you had the time to think about soap means you’re Sand Hill, I was Harmony Church, so it’s all ok to be picky about what soap-🧼 …. 🌈🦄??
Harmony Church used ashes and gravel to wash. But yer Sand Hill.
It’s all ok now, we’re all cool with Sand Hill being well… gay.
Seriously it’s no big deal.
I’m sure the Air Force loved your Fit, Patrick.
It’s cool.
LOL. You must have been the "candyland" that we were threatened with, and how fortunate we were to not be there, cause we wouldn't last the night. This was in 99' so one imagines it was a much kinder and gentler training environment compared to when you went through.
I watched Desert Storm on the TV like everyone else, had the playing cards and everything.
As for the airforce, we did have a guy that had to stand in the formation area for a day and point out anything that flew by and yell "DE PLANE, DE PLANE, DE PLANE!" cause he lost a laser (Peq-4 or some such?) on FTX.
Fun Fact; Since the last name was a hassle I was Pvt. Fuckstick.
Lol lmao 😂
C-9-2 1986
I think mine was Delta co. 2/19 INF, would have been 2000? I need to dig up my box of the past. I remember pretty distinctly the DIs saying shit had REALLY changed in the previous years, Something about a soccer like card system where if you were getting shark attacked you could pull out a card and they would have to leave you alone? 😂 It feels impossible that could have ever been a thing, but given some of the shit that went down during my cycle and part of the motivation for me bugging out is some of that fuckery.
Stress cards. Lol.
😂
We would have collapsed laughing
Then cried out in despair when we realized they were serious
Then gone silent
There was a great disturbance in the Force
Then it became The Farce
Lol
So it WAS fucking real! You never know with this stuff. Like one of the things I def remember was training in MOP(?) level 4 and them being like "Men, if you need to be wearing all this in combat, it is very likely you will already be dead." but even knowing that might be the case, we still had to do the dance when we heard "GASGASGAS!". :D
If nerve gas said the NBC NCO apply 9mm auto injector (eat gun)
And do it quick
A horrid death.
In truth if you are in MOPP4 and not in enormous concentration of Chem it should work.
Should.
The French solved this problem in 1991 by having Mitterrand say publicly that France has an Independent nuclear alternative and if Saddam used Chemical the French would use nuclear.
So the French went round comfortable while we became Chimney sweeps, because Activated Charcoal gets all on everything with dust.
Even then our strategic leadership was worthless, but we had so much proficiency and tactical excellence that it didn’t matter.