Things you learned in the Armed Services that you still do

[Cwood]

" tiny bubbles in my beer..."

Or the other one that I still remember....

"Airbone Ranger, Airbone Ranger where have you been..."

 

[Cwood]

I order parts at work still using the phonic alphabet

 

[jonkertb]

still check the gig line but in my old age have to now check to see if the zip is in the up position LOL
Ma'am and Sir still in the vocabulary.....

phrase from AIT....get your ducks in a row still used with my students in 4th grade

still check my tool inventory after working on bike or vehicles as a left over of my aircraft crewchief training :>)

 

[Cwood]

I still say "..squared away"

 

[hornadylnl]

I still say "..squared away"

Please tell me you don't still say the H word.

 

[Mudcat]

Gig line yes
left foot first , yes
military bearing yes
haircut most of the time
shave every day No
move with a purpose yes
clothes folded and hung military style yes
eat way too fast yes
drive my family nut yes

Some habits are hard to break.

 

[MoparMan]

Cant talk about it, I'd have to kill you.

 

[Revelations]

gig line
clothes hung a certain way
eat to fast
I still try pass my 2 mile run time, even to this day

 

[HICKMAN]

Please tell me you don't still say the H word.

hooah


I do the same as most of the above.

 

[HICKMAN]

I order parts at work still using the phonic alphabet

do you still answer the phone at work the same? I can't help it for some reason.

 

[Cwood]

I have used Hooah from time to time still.

 

[hornadylnl]

Man, you guys are lifers. I use phonetic every once in awhile for convenience. I've often found that if they guy on the other end wasn't in the military, you might as well be speaking swahili if you try using the phonetic alphabet to spell a word.

 

[IndyGunworks]

I use plenty of jargon including curse words (unfortunately hard habbit to break)
haircut
sir mam
smoking
eat fast
i am very very blunt and tell it the way it is
profile probably a bit too much
get very very irritated when i hear people complaining about being "tired" or "cold" or "hungry" or "bored" man do they have no clue

oh and i use the phonetic alphabet alot and get irritated when my mom says "boy" instead of bravo

 

[Cwood]

I taught my Allen Bradley sales rep the phonic alphabet because of the way the part numbers are!

Bravo Foxtrot or Bravo Delta are still two that I say.....

 

[Grizhicks]

also, 24 hour time (Zulu time is used in ham radio)

 

[Dryden]

When telling people my phone mumber or zip code, I say ZERO.... not the letter O.
as in: one, three, zero, eight, seven = 13087


When I still smoked, I field stripped every cigarette down to tiny pieces before throwing away.

I refuse to clean toilets. I did enough of that to last a lifetime.

 

[hornadylnl]

I don't camp or shave any more. I use a set of beard trimmers every time I get a hair cut. Yes, I still have a military style. My hair won't style and I can't stand it touching my ears.

 

[Hoosier8]

Gig line and a couple I haven't seen mentioned, I still line through my zeros and say niner.

 

[hornadylnl]

How many of you still wear your issued brown briefs? That'll show who the lifers are.

 

[MoparMan]

I dont think i ever wore those.