Protest
Feb 14th 2003, 2:43 am
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Re: Protest
Originally posted by Mrtravel
Regarding jarheads....
http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/...s.asp?Num=2903
Regarding jarheads....
http://www.wordwizard.com/clubhouse/...s.asp?Num=2903
I've never heard of "jarhead" being the equivalent of a "grunt." I always understood "grunt" to be those Army 11-bravos out in the field.
Feb 14th 2003, 2:45 am
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Originally posted by cindyabs
Isn't their (Marines) hat called a cover? Jar/cover.......... but then again I was an Army wife and my ex was a Quartermaster "puke".....
Isn't their (Marines) hat called a cover? Jar/cover.......... but then again I was an Army wife and my ex was a Quartermaster "puke".....
Lets hear it for the sprit of "76"
Feb 14th 2003, 3:52 am
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That's what the Infantry types called 'em
Feb 14th 2003, 4:18 pm
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Originally posted by cindyabs
That's what the Infantry types called 'em
That's what the Infantry types called 'em
Feb 14th 2003, 5:15 pm
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Re: Protest
I spent the war at Ft Benning - a long-way back REMF.
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> Originally posted by cindyabs
> > That's what the Infantry types called 'em
> If you haven't guessed, I was a guartermaster type. The infantry types
> in the field called us "pal" and "buddy" when they came to our ice point
> bearing six-packs for us.
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> Originally posted by cindyabs
> >
That's what the Infantry types called 'em> If you haven't guessed, I was a guartermaster type. The infantry types
> in the field called us "pal" and "buddy" when they came to our ice point
> bearing six-packs for us.
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Feb 14th 2003, 10:03 pm
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Re: Protest
Originally posted by Ron
I spent the war at Ft Benning - a long-way back REMF.
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> Originally posted by cindyabs
> > That's what the Infantry types called 'em
> If you haven't guessed, I was a guartermaster type. The infantry types
> in the field called us "pal" and "buddy" when they came to our ice point
> bearing six-packs for us.
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I spent the war at Ft Benning - a long-way back REMF.
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> Originally posted by cindyabs
> >
That's what the Infantry types called 'em> If you haven't guessed, I was a guartermaster type. The infantry types
> in the field called us "pal" and "buddy" when they came to our ice point
> bearing six-packs for us.
> --
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Although it was couple of years before my time, several of my older buddies had quickly gone from REMF to frontline urban infantry in January 1968.
