randave2001 Loc: Richmond

Was told as a young sailor to get 50 ft of shore line and a bucket of relative bearing grease. Then was chastised when I was caught at the enlisted men's club waiting on the order. One gets thirsty during the wait, you know.

lbrande

For the 50 Gal of prop wash, I'd provide a 55 gal drum of water.
For the 200' of flight line, I'd provide bungee chords from a Beech Bonanza.

I just wouldn't be too popular...

Lew Maj USAR Ret.

stonecherub Loc: Tucson, AZ

A somewhat overweight Chief handed a pail to a young sailor and told him to bring back a bucket full of steam. The kid returned the pail with an inch of water in the bottom.

"This ain't steam!" roared the Chief.

Replied the kid, "Sure it is, just add your hot air."

randave2001 Loc: Richmond

Angmo

Lol... I'd just take the day off..! But then again, as a Marine, I always confused Air Force Generals in uniform at the airport as bag men/porter. Funny thing is, they'd always carry my bags. :-)

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

When the enemy yells "Stand up" Don't.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Now that one hits close to the truth.
In WW II in the Pacific they had Japanese American troops who would go outside our lines to spy on the other side. Sometimes they would yell contradictory orders to the Japanese troops. Often wearing Japanese uniforms. I read they had a few guys go with them as guards and to escort them through our lines both ways to keep them from being victims of "friendly fire". Those guys had to be more than a little crazy. I also read that after a while someone real high up decided that was too close to asking them to do suicide missions and issued orders to stop it. They were to only listen and report on what they heard, not yell orders.

stonecherub Loc: Tucson, AZ

<<I always confused Air Force Generals in uniform at the airport as bag men/porter. >>

When I was flying in the Navy Reserve out of Pt Mugu, I wore my uniform on the way home to Tucson Sunday nights because I could get a half-price ticket. One Sunday, while waiting for may bag, an elderly lady came up to me and asked if i would help her with her baggage. Of course I would, being young and polite, and had a goodly cart of luggage to hand off to the real skycap when he finally arrived.

canarywood1 Loc: Sarasota,Florida

That's a figment of someones imagination, the only Japanese that served in the pacific theatre of operations were MIS, and they were not combat troops, the 442nd regimental combat team and the 100th Battalion were the only Japanese combat troops that served in the war and that was in Europe,and were second generation Japanese.

Angmo

Wanna be military dudes... At an office my wife used to work was a guy claiming to be a Marine Sniper and doing all sorts of heroic nonsense. I gave my wife a few simple questions to ask of the liar the next time he came around. She started out that I was a Marine then started asking.. he took off never to be seen around much anymore.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Well the man who used to be my dentist (passed on now) and a good family friend was a Corpsman with the Marines on Guadalcanal and a few other places (he was on a mine sweeper during Korea). And he knew a couple of Japanese American GIs (yes they were Military Intelligence, not infantry) who both pulled those kinds of stunts several times. As stated after higher up learned of it they basically said "Cut it out!".
Corpsman isn't exactly a combat occupation either, but Wing (yep his real name) was a competition shooter in civilian life and he had a buddy who was a sniper and he would hang out on the perimeter with him and sometimes "borrow" a scoped Springfield, just for target practice of course. But then Wing had a cut down Thompson as part of his kit, right along with the aid supplies. He even named it- "Baby". He and his platoon tried to bring back a duffle bag of stuff, swords etc (Baby was hidden in the bottom of the bag. But when they realized all the swords etc were being confiscated at the top of the gang plank going aboard the transport they dropped the duffle into Naha Harbor rather than let some rear area officers end up with their stuff.

Oh, and the 442nd and 100th had a fair number of Korean Americans and other Asian Americans serve in their ranks. An Asst Principal I worked with was born in one of the relocation camps and one of his uncles and his oldest brother (lied about his age and enlisted at 16) were in the 442nd. He used to talk about his uncle and brother having friends in Korea Town Los Angeles who had been in with them.

gener202002

Lots of good advice here. And maybe some not so good.

Tikva Loc: Waukesha, WI

Very nice. No military experience, but I enjoyed them just the same.