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Mar 14, 2017 21:07:46   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
pafret wrote:
I got in the military right after the Korean Armistice; the cadre in basic training were combat vets. They described being on the front for weeks and they ate k-rations which constipated most of them. They had to relieve themselves, in a corner, of the holes they dug for protection. Latrines were an elaborate affair with a deep long trench covered by some sort of four or five hole shanty. There was nothing like that in forward areas.

They would have to move periodically to counter the enemy and new holes were dug. Usually, if it was necessary to dig a foxhole it was too dangerous to have a designated place for elimination.
I got in the military right after the Korean Armis... (show quote)


yeah the dogs and the Jarheads had it tough
no place to crap
shoulda joined the Navy
we have toilets in our heads

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Mar 14, 2017 21:26:58   #
bggamers Loc: georgia
 
slatten49 wrote:
I had the toughest time of my life. First, I got angina pectoris and then arteriosclerosis.

Just as I was recovering from these, I got tuberculosis, double pneumonia and phthisis, then they gave me hypodermics.

Appendicitis was followed by tonsillectomy.

These gave way to aphasia and hypertrophic cirrhosis. I completely lost my memory for a while.

I know I had diabetes and acute ingestion, besides gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis...

I don't know how I pulled through it all. It was the hardest spelling test I had ever had.
I had the toughest time of my life. First, I got a... (show quote)



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Mar 14, 2017 21:56:27   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
pafret wrote:
I got in the military right after the Korean Armistice; the cadre in basic training were combat vets. They described being on the front for weeks and they ate k-rations which constipated most of them. They had to relieve themselves, in a corner, of the holes they dug for protection. Latrines were an elaborate affair with a deep long trench covered by some sort of four or five hole shanty. There was nothing like that in forward areas.

They would have to move periodically to counter the enemy and new holes were dug. Usually, if it was necessary to dig a foxhole it was too dangerous to have a designated place for elimination.
I got in the military right after the Korean Armis... (show quote)


Same in Viet Nam, except "forward areas" were more loosely defined. Small fire-base camps were scattered in strategic areas. Your point, though, is well made and understood. Thanks. BTW, K & C rations...for the most part, remained intolerable.

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Mar 14, 2017 22:24:08   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
slatten49 wrote:
Same in Viet Nam, except "forward areas" were more loosely defined. Small fire-base camps were scattered in strategic areas. Your point, though, is well made and understood. Thanks. BTW, K & C rations...for the most part, remained intolerable.


Yes, I learned that first hand, the Army made c-rations the mandatory meal once a week and the weeks I spent in the field were all c-ration meals. I got canned hamburger patties in gravy three meals a day for a week. There is nothing that tastes fouler than that. Guys would have fist fights over a can of beans. I was on K.P. one day and we were opening the boxes of C-rations to pull out the canned food. One of the boxes had a package of Lucky Strikes in the green package. Luckies changed the color at the start of the second world war to leave the green dyes for military use. Their slogan then was "Lucky /Strike Green has Gone to War" so we were eating 15 year old canned garbage.

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Mar 14, 2017 22:29:17   #
Big dog
 
pafret wrote:
Yes, I learned that first hand, the Army made c-rations the mandatory meal once a week and the weeks I spent in the field were all c-ration meals. I got canned hamburger patties in gravy three meals a day for a week. There is nothing that tastes fouler than that. Guys would have fist fights over a can of beans. I was on K.P. one day and we were opening the boxes of C-rations to pull out the canned food. One of the boxes had a package of Lucky Strikes in the green package. Luckies changed the color at the start of the second world war to leave the green dyes for military use. Their slogan then was "Lucky /Strike Green has Gone to War" so we were eating 15 year old canned garbage.
Yes, I learned that first hand, the Army made c-ra... (show quote)


YUCK

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Mar 14, 2017 22:52:55   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
pafret wrote:
Yes, I learned that first hand, the Army made c-rations the mandatory meal once a week and the weeks I spent in the field were all c-ration meals. I got canned hamburger patties in gravy three meals a day for a week. There is nothing that tastes fouler than that. Guys would have fist fights over a can of beans. I was on K.P. one day and we were opening the boxes of C-rations to pull out the canned food. One of the boxes had a package of Lucky Strikes in the green package. Luckies changed the color at the start of the second world war to leave the green dyes for military use. Their slogan then was "Lucky /Strike Green has Gone to War" so we were eating 15 year old canned garbage.
Yes, I learned that first hand, the Army made c-ra... (show quote)

My only fond memories of C-rations are of peaches and pound cake. Wish I could forget the ham & lima beans, also known by another name.

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Mar 14, 2017 23:03:43   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
Big dog wrote:
YUCK

Well said, B-D.

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Mar 15, 2017 11:01:52   #
boatbob2
 
And,you wear the toilet seat as a necklace around your HEAD... When I was in vietnam,My wife,and my Mom,sent me care packages,almost every month,those packages ALWAYS contained HOT SAUCE,BBQ sauce and SPAM,Still love Spam to this day FRIED,,,with a little hot sauce,also in the package from my Mom,was about a 10 foot roll of home made sausage,from a store in Pittsburgh Pa,called AMMERRICAS, (true spelling) fantastic sausage,I used to share the sausage with my troops,they loved it too..

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Mar 15, 2017 12:45:42   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
boatbob2 wrote:
And,you wear the toilet seat as a necklace around your HEAD... When I was in vietnam,My wife,and my Mom,sent me care packages,almost every month,those packages ALWAYS contained HOT SAUCE,BBQ sauce and SPAM,Still love Spam to this day FRIED,,,with a little hot sauce,also in the package from my Mom,was about a 10 foot roll of home made sausage,from a store in Pittsburgh Pa,called AMMERRICAS, (true spelling) fantastic sausage,I used to share the sausage with my troops,they loved it too..

Any dog-face that likes spam, hot sauce (Tabasco?), BBQ and home-made sausage can't be all bad.

BTW, hit 'quote reply' beneath the post to which you are responding. We'll have a better grasp of whom you are addressing...THANKS

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Mar 15, 2017 13:14:55   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
slatten49 wrote:
Any dog-face that likes spam, hot sauce (Tabasco?), BBQ and home-made sausage can't be all bad.

BTW, hit 'quote reply' beneath the post to which you are responding. We'll have a better grasp of whom you are addressing...THANKS



keep tellin you poor guys
you should have at least tried to join the Navy(I know Slat was turned down)
we had three hot meals every day

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Mar 15, 2017 14:26:37   #
boatbob2
 
slatten49 wrote:
Damn, you Doggies are as delusional as your seagoing brethren. With a moniker such as 'BoatBob2'...you sure you're not a Squid


Nope,Im not a Squid,After I retired from the US Army,and the Sheriffs dept,I repaired fiberglass boats,thats where that handle came from.

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Mar 16, 2017 09:19:14   #
ssgtgood
 
badbobby wrote:
keep tellin you poor guys
you should have at least tried to join the Navy(I know Slat was turned down)
we had three hot meals every day


Never served in a combat zone did you? Tabasco was a life saver when all you had to eat was c-rats. Ever heard of ham and motherf*ckers? Talk about some nasty shit, even tabasco couldn't help that shit.
Semper Fidelis
ssgtgoodUSMC

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Mar 16, 2017 09:48:16   #
slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
 
ssgtgood wrote:
Never served in a combat zone did you? Tabasco was a life saver when all you had to eat was c-rats. Ever heard of ham and motherf*ckers? Talk about some nasty shit, even tabasco couldn't help that shit.
Semper Fidelis
ssgtgoodUSMC

You got that right, Marine ( See my above post regarding such)

SEMPER FI

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Mar 16, 2017 12:38:05   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
ssgtgood wrote:
Never served in a combat zone did you? Tabasco was a life saver when all you had to eat was c-rats. Ever heard of ham and motherf*ckers? Talk about some nasty shit, even tabasco couldn't help that shit.
Semper Fidelis
ssgtgoodUSMC


Sargeant, I don't know what excites my sympathy more, the wounds our military come home with or the knowledge of what crap they had to eat while getting those wounds. I have often thought that the punishment should fit the crime, replace all the food in the dining rooms of the congressmen and the producers of that swill with what they send to our military. And then send a BAR squad to make sure they eat there daily.

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Mar 16, 2017 19:31:49   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
ssgtgood wrote:
Never served in a combat zone did you? Tabasco was a life saver when all you had to eat was c-rats. Ever heard of ham and motherf*ckers? Talk about some nasty shit, even tabasco couldn't help that shit.
Semper Fidelis
ssgtgoodUSMC


would you count Okinawa???

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