Nice lace on 11, very nice tush on 13, 25, noble sentiment on 35, nice milk white on 45, 53, nice freckles on 55, nice tush on 66, 72, 83, nice everything on 81, nice direction finders on 89.
The best part of bootcamp was stenciling clothes - never thought having a three letter last name would come in so handy - until I saw Recruit Weisenheimer's hand cramping up after his second shirt! :D
In the 70’s, we used rubber hand stamps for putting our names on uniform items, not stencils. Hopefully your name wasn’t like Schmuckatelli - always a chance you could run out of the right letters without borrowing some. We had one guy in boot camp that had a hyphenated name (a very uncommon thing in the 70’s) who the drill instructors just called “Alphabet”. I hope his stamp kit had enough letter “O” in it.
Bring forth the scurvy pollywogs!!
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Hey, it's not my fault that COMSUBPAC wouldn't extend our operating box 10 freaking miles further South so we could do Shellback!
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Nice lace on 11, very nice tush on 13, 25, noble sentiment on 35, nice milk white on 45, 53, nice freckles on 55, nice tush on 66, 72, 83, nice everything on 81, nice direction finders on 89.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of bootcamp was stenciling clothes - never thought having a three letter last name would come in so handy - until I saw Recruit Weisenheimer's hand cramping up after his second shirt! :D
ReplyDeleteStenciling is not the reason for the hand cramp: probably went skiing overnight.
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Orlando, September '72, Co. 263.
DeleteI think I've still got my stencil around here somewhere.
Great Lakes Nov. '64, ET3/Crypto - Nemo
ReplyDeleteThat'd make you about 75. Still above dirt. Thank you for your service, Nemo!
DeleteI once used that reply, (Thanks for being worth it) to a mature woman at a community gathering. Made her cry.
Thanks for the babes, especially the "Good Girl", and the killer memes.
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In the 70’s, we used rubber hand stamps for putting our names on uniform items, not stencils. Hopefully your name wasn’t like Schmuckatelli - always a chance you could run out of the right letters without borrowing some. We had one guy in boot camp that had a hyphenated name (a very uncommon thing in the 70’s) who the drill instructors just called “Alphabet”. I hope his stamp kit had enough letter “O” in it.
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