Remember the old days?
Aug 28, 2018 21:20:10 #
Aug 28, 2018 22:25:40 #
Huey Driver wrote:
Remember the old days?
Or how it was in VietNam (I’m sure you remember). No one took photos, so we’ll have to settle for these instructions from the Army field manual. Ours did have an enclosure around it. I have a vivid memory of it. One night sitting in a multi-hole latrine in VietNam about 2AM (and being very “short”), I stupidly responded to a Sergeant Major about two holes down, who was giving me some grief about my uniform, with: “hey sarge, don’t you have something better to do...?”. Big mistake. I was assigned to burning s**t (half 55 gal drums filled with diesel fuel) for a week. I was an E5 at the time, and there’s an army reg about NCOs not doing manual labor, but supervising the detail instead (beneath the dignity of your rank), but I didn’t say another word (except: “yes, Sergeant Major”).
Aug 29, 2018 06:29:18 #
We’ve just returned from a wild camping week and those toilets are exactly what we had “composting toilets” they weren’t actually that bad, sawdust at the end of the “job”
Aug 29, 2018 07:02:52 #
First ship I rode on was a WWII sub chaser. In the head (bathroom to landlubbers) there was a trough with water streaming. Wooden planks were spaced appropriately. You urinated between the planks that you sat on. You could be sitting and someone urine might be flowing past your shoulder.
Aug 29, 2018 07:11:28 #
Aug 29, 2018 07:25:11 #
Yep,...that's exactly how it was in boot camp at Parris Island,...at Camp Lejuine,..and still that way when I again got stationed at Parris Island 2 years later.
For privacy I often waited till 2 or 3 AM to use the John,....if I could #@*#$
I liked steam showers,...turned on ALL the nozzles in the shower room steaming hot and showered alone at the same times,...always worked for me.
For privacy I often waited till 2 or 3 AM to use the John,....if I could #@*#$
I liked steam showers,...turned on ALL the nozzles in the shower room steaming hot and showered alone at the same times,...always worked for me.
Aug 29, 2018 08:02:00 #
Aug 29, 2018 08:59:36 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
Boy is that a memory!
It sure created unit integrity!
It sure created unit integrity!
Huey Driver wrote:
Remember the old days?
Aug 29, 2018 09:03:13 #
Huey Driver wrote:
Remember the old days?
Saving money by eliminating dividers. : )
Aug 29, 2018 09:15:07 #
Aug 29, 2018 09:30:53 #
FrankR
Loc: NYC
Martys wrote:
Yep,...that's exactly how it was in boot camp at Parris Island,...at Camp Lejuine,..and still that way when I again got stationed at Parris Island 2 years later.
For privacy I often waited till 2 or 3 AM to use the John,....if I could #@*#$
I liked steam showers,...turned on ALL the nozzles in the shower room steaming hot and showered alone at the same times,...always worked for me.
For privacy I often waited till 2 or 3 AM to use the John,....if I could #@*#$
I liked steam showers,...turned on ALL the nozzles in the shower room steaming hot and showered alone at the same times,...always worked for me.
Looking at that picture, I can hear my Parris Island DI’s voice growling, “Starboard side, make a two minute head call.” Then forty some odd Boots running to the head to take care of business and get back in front of their racks in under two minutes.
Aug 29, 2018 09:49:43 #
Aug 29, 2018 10:05:19 #
Aug 29, 2018 10:35:08 #
Burn out latrines. A memory I'd rather forget that and running across a cobra in the latrine.
Aug 29, 2018 11:35:19 #
I'm a vet but never experienced anything like this. However, I was in the Air Force for five years. I think the AF treated their guys better than the other branches. And three of those five years were spent at Hickam AFB, down the road from Waikiki Beach. I worked in the Military Pay department and paid a lot of guys going to and coming from Nam. Never made it there myself, for which, I'm not disappointed.
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