Getting jacked off duty

[WINDWOLF]

Maybe i will Recce bro, got a pair i can borrow?

Don,t sweat the responses Pte,all in a days work.
Like the guys say "getting cock" is part & parcel
of the army mentality. Go with the flow.

There is no such thing as a stupid question
if you don,t know.

Ignore the crap,in one ear & out the other,
just retain whats required.You will catch on.

Man,i am just brim full of folksie wisdom
today.

 

[Fader]

Courses are getting short; my 5‘s is only 6 weeks this year.

The cock we got on course last year was quite unlike any cock we had gotten before. Since we‘re not really a combat oriented trade, the instructors don‘t use remedial PT so much as I thought they would. Sure there‘s 10 pushups for every button undone, letter, and piece of gargbage in the trash; but where they really got us last year (and where I imagine they will this year) is in standardization. That‘s what bugged us the most, was how the instructors would change the standard every day. One day it was "tooth brush facing the left" the next it was "tooth brush facing the right." One day it was "collars on the jacket go up." the next "collars on the jacket go down." Of course between 30 people, spaced out over an entire building with 10 of us completly cut off (males not allowed in female quarters), and with everybody having differant kit, we could never get it completly standardized. They‘d always threaten to take our weekends away over that too, something nobody wanted. Looking back in retrospect, though, it was actually a good time.

 

[Recce41]

Wind
I think it is from doing the business for a few of yrs changes you.
Humit, you told you, you don‘t have to stand to attention in civies? Yes yng man you do!
:evil: :tank:

 

[humint]

Hey, may be I‘m wrong. But, I‘ve been told not to come to attention in civs unless: you are on base, you are on the parade sqaure or at the reg, or are on course.

Definitely don‘t salute in civs.

 

[WINDWOLF]

Humint,

If you go by the strict letter of the law,
yes, you are right.What the guys are trying
to to tell you is that it never hurts to
show respect for the rank.In civys or combats
give it & you will get it back.

 

[Recce41]

By rights, you must speak to a superior soldier at attendion. The military has gotten slack for a while now. When I got in, in 79 no hook troopers had to stand for attention for one hook ones. Yes out in public was stupid. But I have stores from my Father about the Army in the late 40s-60s. He was in since 43, ****, if you were a shack rat. Your civies had to be in a seperate closet, civie socks rolled, etc.
I remember onetime my old man many yrs oago. Having a yng trooper at attention, at the old Canex in Petawawa. For not speaking to the CO at attention. This was back in the 60s.

 

[D-n-A]

anytime I show up at my armouries in civvies or uniform, I always address people by their rank(cpl an up, or just *sir* or *ma‘am* for officers an MWO‘s an CWO‘s), but in the J.R.‘s it‘s usually slacker

 

[kurokaze]

Ok, here‘s a question that may or may not be related.

As a (now qualified) 2Lt, I‘ve been addressing
everyone up to WO by their rank and name.

However, for MWO and CWO, I‘ve been calling them
CSM, BSM, RSM whatever, just because the ones I‘ve
met just happened to have those appointments.

So what would I normally call an MWO or CWO?
Would I say "Master Warrant" or "Chief Warrant"
or should I be saying "sir"?

 

[Zoomie]

Most times those pers with a CSM or RSM rank are Sergeant-Majors or RSMs. However, I once worked with a Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class (equivalent of MWO) in the Navy. I simply asked him what I should call him. He said to call him "Chief".

So when in doubt, ask!