On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:29:54 -0500, BAR wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:03:22 -0500, BAR wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:29:34 -0500, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:14:46 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
And for loooooosing, you have to wear bell bottoms and that stupid
white sailor cover - or a dress. :)
Money is one thing. That Navy outfit is another. Forget it.
You guys don't know what you missed. Those bell bottoms were chick
magnets. They love 13 buttons.
Sure they do.
I would have been a squid if it weren't for the "outfits" they wear.
Keeping the family tradition. Luckily my grandfather started his Naval
Service career in the USMC so I had that to fall back on. Besides, the
USMC has the best looking uniforms.

The Marine dress uniform can't be beat. But I do like the Army's new desert
camouflage uniform, especially the no-shine boots and all the velcro
patches. I can't believe the amount of time I wasted spit shining boots and
the money I wasted getting patches sewn on.

I have a couple of cousins who are boot-louies in the Corps. Both of
them are going to be airdales too. Neither of them has had to shine a
pair of boots they just walked through the swamps with.

Freaking Corps is going to hell in a hand basket.

Why does the Army make you guys wear all of those patches. You guys
trying to emulate the boy scouts. A merit badge for this, a merit badge
for that?

It is some of that, for sure. The Ranger, Airborne, Expert Infantry Badge,
and maybe one or two others are the only 'merit' badges. The shoulder
patches indicate unit affiliation, on the left, and the last combat unit
affiliation on the right. And then there's the name, US Army, and rank.
But, if a soldier comes back from Iraq and is assigned to a different unit
and gets promoted, he used to have to pay someone to sew on four new
patches on each set of fatigues (minimum 4 sets). PITA!
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John H.