Anyone else sick to death of this Veterans worship?
Hoo-ah is new to me. When I was in the army, it was 'all the way.' No, not right. 'ALL THE WAY!!!!' Short for 'Airborne, all the way.' The big thing was Airborne. 'I wanna be an airborne ranger/I wanna lead a life of danger.'
It was assumed Airborne could defeat anyone, anywhere, anyplace. A big status symbol was airborne jump boots, with a special toe laced with leather. Most GIS, if they wanted to be super-troopers, bought a pair and spit-polished that toe.
But I suppose the chickenshit has to change with the fashion. When I was in basic in 1973, we sang :'I wanna go to Viet-nam/I wanna kill me a Vi-et Cong', even though the war was over...at least for us. Then, two years later, troops started singing: 'If I die on the Arab shore/bury me in an Arab whore/ If I die on the Russian front/bury me in a Russian C----.'
So, our enemy changed with the times.
I suppose the Marines had stronger stuff, usually dealing with pussy. And to the army and marines, the air force and coast guard are a bunch of fags.
The air force always considered the army to be morons. As for the navy, there was an old joke: when you cross a marine with a gorilla, you get a retarded gorilla.
The world of hoo-ah.
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