tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post3562492872633769261..comments2023-06-25T20:42:38.014-07:00Comments on CI-Roller Dude: "With That Said"...arrgggggggggg!!!!CI-Roller Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-48114601841050394352010-05-05T06:54:49.150-07:002010-05-05T06:54:49.150-07:00MF, we had special training and X-Ray vision to se...MF, we had special training and X-Ray vision to see through the black out cover. <br /><br />CP, It was just my M9 pistol in a high tech, fancy, geewiz, highspeed-low drag holster.<br />That was a training area, so they let the grass grow...<br /><br />Mr West, We kicked at lot of soldiers out in the old days.CI-Roller Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10850472230525879415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-91606641104607905042010-05-05T05:38:43.154-07:002010-05-05T05:38:43.154-07:001. Everyone who has worn the uniform shares your f...1. Everyone who has worn the uniform shares your frustration.<br />2. The beret was GEN Shinseki's gift to the USA. The rangers are still fuming about losing their black beret.<br />3. Talked to a newly minted Ranger School grad last weekend. Infantry SGT, 2 tours in Iraq, decorated: still made cracks about the tan beret and he'd only been tabbed for 3 days. Guess attitude comes with the tab.<br />4. My smart mouth made me eligible for wall to wall counseling, but my football background and size led the people I PO'ed to put up with me.<br />5. As an officer, didn't allow it.<br />6. Probably could have salvaged some of my dumbass PFC's and LCPL's, but I couldn't trust my NCO's.<br />7. Every time it happened behind my back, someone wound up in the hospital. <br />8. Old Army and Old Corps NCO's knew how to do that stuff.<br />9. When it happened in my units, wound up on the carpet, explaining to my superior why PFC so-and-so fell down the stairs in a one story barrack.<br />10. Exaggeration, for comic effect.<br />11. Did not lie to my superiors -although sometimes I think they wished I had.<br />12. Many times had to counsel a young troop that his next offense was going to lead to a general discharge.<br />13. After numerous iterations, could spot they exact moment they tuned me out. Wished mightily for some means of holding their attention.<br />14. This was early eighties. The Commandant, GEN Barrow, visited my regiment and was apprised by a Capt in my BN that the percentage of Marines using drugs wasn't 15% like the staffer had briefed, it was more like 85%. And that we had troops with 8 or 9 Article 15's that we were not allowed to discharge.<br />15. We got the green light and my company processed almost 40 troops for less than honorable discharges in about 3 months.<br />16. Standards are much higher today. The institutional framework is also much tighter -it's harder to get into the type of problems that undid my young men.<br />17. That Captain that stood up and gave the Commandant the word is now a Major General.<br />V/R JWestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-84900538358195613552010-05-04T21:45:44.314-07:002010-05-04T21:45:44.314-07:00Dude, what is strapped to your leg? It doesn't...Dude, what is strapped to your leg? It doesn't look like a hand weapon.<br /><br />And in the last pucture, isn't the grass a little high for a Army camp?Coffeypothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08601474604616163167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486091724602248905.post-53280393859233470572010-05-04T20:01:03.700-07:002010-05-04T20:01:03.700-07:00Super great post! Love it! I just want to know how...Super great post! Love it! I just want to know how in the world you managed to do your job with that black blindfold on your face the entire time. Amazing! LMAO! <br /><br /><br />PS. Ingonito..Momma Fargohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17625178164224513103noreply@blogger.com