Just remembering the good old days when...
Belt webbing (belt,mag pouch x 2,water bottle pouch x2,Harness)
or SBO instead of LBV/BPV
Sewing on Unit/brigade patch on SBO harness after turning
ops
When there is no such thing as 20 push up rule
You are really scared of CSM/RSM
Digging fire-trench in BMT, if not satisfactory, bury and dig at
another spot.
3 week confinement plus parents visiting (got 1 cart of cigs!!
was the coy's fav recruit for the week!)
M16S1/AR-15 instead of SAR21 (if 1G, heavy barrel AR-15)
Leather boots instead of goretex go fasters
Wearing your gutters low on the boots instead of above to
signify "lao chiaoness" Applicable for 6-10 cycle reservists
Carrying a poncho instead of goretex jacket and somehow
squeezing inside buttpouch of SBO
Dragging the ali baba bag instead of the "stewardess bag"
Spraying the inbound/outbound flight number on the base of ali
baba bag..
Old field pack with shiity straps instead of MOLLE fieldpack
,more garang carry ALICE pack subject to approval, then somehow
have to dangle sect comdr bag...
You carry everything inside the list unless your PS say
otherwise even it is doesnt make sense..and then somemore
Name tags were in camoflage and not olive drab
No such thing as unit patch or vocation patch, everyone looks
the same (except rank.)
Joining in training/exercise even with status/excuse just by
pleading with PS/PC
Served food inside insulators outfield or styrofoam box instead
of paper box & heat retaining green bag.
Touching the tree the punishment of choice
the rec's favorite..."help, help the wall is falling!"
Waterproofing field pack with trash bag
Man-packing the Infantry Assault Bridge.(As told by lao chiao
instructors, thank god didnt have to do it!)
2am turn out, 500+ push ups ,sit ups, alternate leg thrust,
change parade, running around the track till 4am because of some
idiot caught smoking inside toilet, next day fall in at 0530, SOC
at 0700(that was one hell of a day!)
BMT Coy punished severely because some asshat clown take a shit
on the conwire during field camp...with the soiled toilet paper
stuck on the con....field pack over head for 30 mins..
10 of the month! Hit the clubs/KTV with platoon mates on
weekends as if the whole week was not taxing enough...book in with
as many food as you can pack inside your civvie bag.By the end of
the week no more money.. back to square one waiting for the tenth
of the next month..(repeat cycle for the next 29 months)
Enemy front/left/right charge! is till viable
Using MILES gear instead of TES set
FIBUA was the highspeed training (Urban Operations: FIBUA on
steroids)
What is MATADOR? Armbrust still the way to go..and less
heavier
And blowing up holes in walls with cross charge and doors with
the testicle-like sock charge..
Rushing to draw signal sets to get the 840 rather than 77 for
Longstride..
Bayonet Fighting instead of CCT...
Section Comdr bag macam girls bag..not unlike nowdays
You still carry 2 x 1.5 liter water bottle in your pack instead
of 3 liter camelbak.
Carrying the 732 instead of 610 set (lighter, but crap) inside
your water bottle pouch or buttpouch.
Riding a Super Puma instead of Chinook for heli ops
or UH-1H in Thailand/Brunei
Walking the 32km RM in BSLC rather than ASLC and getting Combat
Skill Badge..Walking it again with unit during AIT
After ASLC can sew the "SPECIALISTS" tag on Admin and PT
shirts..
Grey admin shirts instead of the ugly brown ones
You just lan lan enlist, complain after ORD rather than
complaining or whining on online forums, asking how to keng and
such, even BEFORE ENLISTMENT!
And much, much more i cant remember (will keep editing once i
recollect).....
