robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Ziggy Comic Strip for January 05, 2021

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Poor, Ziggy!

NMGal Loc: NE NM

RUN!

flyboy61 Loc: The Great American Desert

RiJoRi Loc: Sandy Ridge, NC

Honestly, the _second_ time I donated blood, the needle looked about that big!

Popeye Loc: LifIno

They did that to me at Travis Air Force Base when I was on my way to Vietnam. Most uncomfortable 17 hour flight I have ever take, not that flights that long are comfortable to begin with.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

In basic in March 1966 they lined us up for all our shots. I think it was 4 pairs of medics with the power injectors. You stepped up, a shot in each arm, step to the next pair and repeat. I was a bit off and a few guys got a bit dopey looking but this one guy, about 6'4" muscles had muscles (found out he was a lumber jack in Minnesota) and looked tough enough to hunt tanks with a hammer stepped up to the first station, looked wobbly and in stepping to the second station just folded and fell, out cold.

Also in Nam in our area Army outnumbered the Air Force at least 20 or 30 to one so they used the Army Hospital and just assigned their doctors to it or to Army Clinics. Our compound clinic had an Air Force Doctor assigned. He had a strange sense of humor - he had a 2'x3' board on the wall titled "History of Syringes". It had about a dozen large syringes with creative "needles". Barbed, double, spiral, several inches long, rusted, about 1/4" in diameter and one made out of a 4" piece of barbed wire and a few others I forget. Also when I went to see him about an ear infection from tropical fungus he read my medical files and announced "You have border line vision without your glasses, allergies and borderline mild asthma. You should never have been allowed to enlist for active duty. I can get you an honorable medical discharge in 4-6 weeks and put you on a plane home." I only had 13 weeks left on my Regular Army enlistment so I turned him down. Why bother. As it was 8 weeks later in Jan 1969 when my tour was up and I returned to the states they told me 5 weeks wasn't enough time to bother reassigning me somewhere unless you want to work at a recruiting office, I said no. - "So go home and we will mail your discharge papers to you. Sign here." I signed, was given a ticket home and left. In late March I got my final papers in the mail.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I had a dentist come at me with a big needle like that when I was about five to get a baby tooth out. I told him no, I'd work on it and get it out.

cameranut Loc: North Carolina

My brother was an army medic while stationed in Vietnam. They were supposed to practice giving injections using a non medicinal liquid (sugar water?) Anyway, he discovered that if he winced and rubbed his arm he could fool them into thinking he had received his shot. He came back on a slow ship.

joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA

That looks like a pneumatic hypodermic

Tom467 Loc: North Central Florida

This cartoon reminds me of when my Army Reserve unit was put on alert for Bosnia back in 1996. I believe the Army gave me every vaccine known to man, I felt like a human pin cushion. To this day I do not know what vaccines I received. I showed my shot records to three MD and even they could not make out the hen scratching. We stayed on alert for two weeks and then the alert was called off.