The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Friday, September 25, 2015
Heh
Miss D. found this on Facebook and forwarded it to me.
Based on my experience in uniform, I can so believe that . . .
One outfit I was in had a 2LT who was a recent graduate from Michigan State and a product of their ROTC program. He was a nice guy so we took pity on him and helped him get his C Ration cans open. He was a long time figuring out the P-38.
Jerry Pournelle sad just that and then admitted he had one of the 2LTs with a map at one time.
@Jim
Hard to believe he'd never seen a P-38 before he was commissioned. I saw them as a kid in the 7th grade, although I was an Air Force brat and I was many times the envy of my classmates when I brought Cs for lunch.
Second Lieutenants with maps and compasses are a menace, but if you want real danger, you need a field grade who has just been visited by The Good Idea Fairy (tm).
Or, worse yet, a Warrant Officer who has decided to revisit the days of his misspent youth, and do something "the old way"...
Isn't there a truism that the most dangerous thing around is a 2LT with a map and compass?
ReplyDeleteOne outfit I was in had a 2LT who was a recent graduate from Michigan State and a product of their ROTC program. He was a nice guy so we took pity on him and helped him get his C Ration cans open. He was a long time figuring out the P-38.
ReplyDelete@John
ReplyDeleteJerry Pournelle sad just that and then admitted he had one of the 2LTs with a map at one time.
@Jim
Hard to believe he'd never seen a P-38 before he was commissioned. I saw them as a kid in the 7th grade, although I was an Air Force brat and I was many times the envy of my classmates when I brought Cs for lunch.
Ooh, that's SO possible!
ReplyDeleteHey, it was only three days and the fast did me good....
ReplyDeleteSecond Lieutenants with maps and compasses are a menace, but if you want real danger, you need a field grade who has just been visited by The Good Idea Fairy (tm).
ReplyDeleteOr, worse yet, a Warrant Officer who has decided to revisit the days of his misspent youth, and do something "the old way"...