The Warrior Song

[RegentOne]

All present, retired, and former military can appreciate the video on this site. For those that have not served, I am sure you can get some sense of honor and appreciation too. Deslock, this song is awesome with some great pictures. Let me know what you think. A good friend of mine who is retired Navy sent the link to me.

http://www.thewarriorsong.com/video.html

[Deslock]

Catchy song. I liked it. And damn, did it bring back some memories. Some things I remember most, was always being cold, dry, and crusty. The desert is frying hot during the day, and freezing cold at night. And always having to "dry shave" because we wanted to conserve our precious water. How wonderful that first shower in two weeks felt like. :D And coming back to a new field base, and discovering that the latrines were "co-ed". That's right, you'd be sitting there doing your "business", only to have females come in to brush their teeth. And no, there were no "stalls", just crappers lined up against a freaking wall.

Getting up in the morning, and shaking your boots, so the scorpions would fall out. They normally don't sting, but if they think you're going to crush them..well..

Heh, one of the worst things that happened to me that I personaly disliked, was waking up in my fartsack one morning (It zips all the way up to your face) and finding a giant trantula/giant spider, what ever the Hell it was, parked right on my face. And trying to unzip the damn thing, and move slow enough, that the damn thing didn't get antsy, and bite my face. I don't care what you guys think, that was not a cool thing to wake up to covering your face. I guess it parked there because of the heat from my breath. One of the very worst was seeing where a Tank barreled through, and ran over a few soldiers in their fartsacks sleeping. Ever stepped on a packet of ketchup...kinda like that. Only worse.


There are alot of things the sweet recruiters don't tell you about. When I got out of basic and went home on leave, I went looking for mine, but he'd already been transfered. Gosh, I could tell you hundreds of stories. I didn't mind flying or jumping, but hanging on the sides of Helocopters always unnerved the shit outta me. Heights always kinda bothered me, but I forced myself to get over it.

I'm glad they got rid of those hated "cunt" caps for the dress Uni's, but I'm not very happy about the beret thing. We had to F'n earn ours. But that's just my opinion. And I know they say it's "better", I dislike the new Digi-camo. And I LOVE the urban camo. And "Tanker boots". I hated the laces on the regular boots.

Heh, like I said, I could go on and on...

But thanks for posting that. I'm sure it's a cadence somewhere by now. I always loved the cadences, they could be sooo rude. We actually got in trouble once for sing them by a platoon of females. Called up our C.O. and complained..lol.

The army had to get rid of all the good cadence's so that no whisker biscuits get their delicate feelings hurt.
Who can take a cheese grater
Strap it to his arm
Rub it back and forth
'Til he makes pussy parmesan?
The S&M Man, the S&M Man
The S&M Man can 'cause he mixes it with love,
And makes the hurt feel good (the hurt feel good)

One thing I bet you'd never would've guessed about me...I was signed up after High School to go to the Police Academy. Then I seriously thought about joining the Marines. At the last minute, I changed my mind and joined the Army because one of my friends had already joined the Marines, and when he came home, I wasn't impressed by all the brainwashing they did to him. But I understood it. After all, if these guys are going to be rushing the beacheads first, it helps if they really believe they are "bullet proof". No disrespect to the Corps in any way, form, or fashion. It just wasn't for me. I served with Marines, and helped train some of their specialised units. Good men all. I just hate being on ships. Ain't nowhere to go but down.... I like my feet in the air, and on the ground. Not water.
And even now, even though I'm a HUGE gun rights advocate, I don't even own one. I prefer edged weaponry. Always have.

God this brings back mems:
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBSZ8UhpWKE&feature=related"]YouTube- Airborne Rangers[/nomedia]

There at .38, you can see why I hated hangin' of those damn 'copters.

I always hated runnin' sooo damn much. I know why we did it. But I always hated it. I always hated those damn "cunt caps". One of the proudest moments in my life was getting my dress Uni NCO officers hat. It hangs on my bedpost to this very day.

I watched one the Military channel recently,
a series about about Marine Boot camp, and the D.I.'s can't even hit the 'cruits anymore... I could tell ya a few stories 'bout that too...lol!

God bless ALL the brave men and women that serve our country, especially the poor Coast Guard, that has NEVER gotten the respect they deserve. There are times, when I close my eyes, I remember shit I wish I'd never had ever seen, Ever. But, it comes with the job. You knew that when you signed up.
Kinda like it's just the price you have to pay for freedom.

Thanks again for posting that Regent.

I should tell some of my stories here sometime. I've had several people tell me that I should write a book. Maybe someday I shall. But until then...:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzg3_LC3bGU"]YouTube- U.S. Army Ranger School - Part 1[/nomedia]

[Zabka]

I just hung out this past weekend with a buddy of mine who was a ranger. He was West Point first, so I guess he was an officer. I think he was from one of those families where generations served. Years ago I asked him the hardest part about ranger school-- he was a physical speciman-- and he said none of the physical training bothered him too much. He said the not sleeping or eating for weeks was what really made it tough. I thought about what a bad mood I get in after skipping a couple of meals and felt entirely made of wuss.

[RegentOne]

Your are right Deslock; lots of memories from the military. Thanks for sharing some of yours. They are always interesting and I do like to hear about them when you can gut to tell about it. I actually hated the dixie cup from the Navy and still do. I love my combination cover that I received as a CPO. The piss cutter (garrison hat) is not too bad either until my achor started digging into the side of my head.

[Deslock]

He was a "Westie" Zabka..? I can respect that. I never had one problem with any "westie". The regular officers...well, that's a slightly different story.

Ya know what's odd about that? Every westie that I met was decent to the enlisted men, and didn't look down on us. They could throw down and drink with the best of us NCO's.

Allow me to explain the prior Beret comment I made before. When I was in, the beret was black. Now since everyone wears a black one, the new Ranger berets are "tan". Tan..???!! WTF..? *Sighs*.

And your friend was right Zabka about no sleep. I'd get so tired after 7 days, I'd start to "see" stuff. And he was right about the food, although the MRE's really didn't bother me(Well, besides the Ham slices in that nasty clear jelly). There was one guy in our unit that would always go around and get all the dehydrated peaches from us. They were nasty, so we didn't mind. But after some time, the curiousity got the best of us, and we finally asked him..."Why the F do you go around getting, and trading all the damn dehydrated peaches from us?" (The damn things are best eaten as a dry cake, adding water was a mistake, trust me). "Why do you love the damn things sooo much?"

Without even so much as batting an eye, looked at us all and said...:

"They taste like my girlfriend".

We all just sat there in stunned silence.

Some things I remember most, was always being cold, dry, and crusty.

Because the desert is a very dry heat. There is virtually no humidity. You don't really sweat during the day, you just fry. We always had to add salt tabs to our water. I've been told the Army doesn't do that anymore. F&*k, they probably have Gatorade now.

I remember when we first got the new "Fritz" (WWII German styled Helmets) kevlar helmets, but we missed being able to cook in our old heavy ass steel helms. (No joke), but we didn't really miss them.

And Zabka, like your buddy, my family was the same way. Every single generation of my family (On the American side) had a male serve in the U.S. Military since the Revolutionary war. There was no way in Hell I'd go down as the first to break the chain. Hell, on the German side of my family, they served since the F'n Crusades.
My Grandfather (American) served with the Navy in the Pacific, and my two Grand Uncles (German) served in the Wehrmacht, and Luftwaffe in the east fighting against the Communists.

True story:

One of my nicer memories was in Germany when it was still split. We were on one side watching the Russians with binoculars, and they were doing the exact same thing. It was so funny that we were all laughing about it. I finally said "F" it, I'm going to talk to them. We were just sooo bored staring at each other.

So I went down the hill and stood there. And after a while, a Russian soldier did the same, and came up to me, and we started to talk. I was suprised to find out that he could speak such good english. He came up to me asked if we had American smokes (Especially Marlboro's...Go figure), or porno (As it was "illegal" in the Russian army at the time). We all got to talking, and I learned he was a farmer, and hated being in the Russian Army, and just wanted to go home to his woman and his family. (The Russian Army had forced conscription). At the time getting a hold of real Russian military stuff was very hard. So we started to trade stuff together. A Hustler magazine for a hat, hardcore for boots, and so on. We'd throw magazines and cartons of smokes over the fence, and they'd throw stuff back.

I guess the Russian C.O. for their unit had a muster, and got a hold of our C.O. to complain. He had a inspection of his men, and half of them were missing their equipment, but plenty of American cigarettes, and plenty of "illegal" porno...LOL!!

So that ended our "cold war" business deals.

God we got bitched out....

Which goes to show you, no matter what side we're on, we men all love smokes and girlies. :D

But alas I digress, and will shut up now. But Regent, thanks for posting that, and I now more than ever respect you for being good enough, to become a CPO. I didn't know that about you. I salute you brother, and God bless you and yours.
More than certain respect points given to you for that. I've met many a damn good CPO. Like a good supply Sargeant, they are the life blood of their men. :D