Vern had smuggled in some cocaine to share with his pals, in the toes of his boots. But word got around, and all these other maniacs were there when he landed.
Tag: WWII
A friendly game of pool
Here we have some WWII soldiers enjoying the base recreation center. Guys are playing billiards, ping-pong, there’s a card game going on. Except Bill. You go stand over there, Bill.
Isn’t anybody curious?
I got this WWII electronic relay in a can in a box of auction stuff, I think. It was never opened, so I don’t have any idea of what it looks like; it is in something like an old oil can is made. I guess the Navy must have bought too many. I’m really surprised…
Keep the shiny side up.
I guess these Army jeeps were not built for precision or comfort. There is a picture my dad took around here somewhere… I think it was in Okinawa. Some AF guys standing around looking at a jeep on it’s side, right off the little road winding among the quanset huts. Someone was probably in a…
Clothes don’t fit the misfit
I had the same problem with my issued uniform when I joined the Navy in ’82… It got worse because I lost so much weight in boot camp. First thing I did after boot camp was buy some uniform stuff and civvies so I didn’t look like a guy in a potato sack. It’s too…
Just do what you are told!
A lot of people are starting to feel like this private doing KP in WWII – like, he’s not living up to his potential? All in good time, my friend. Pretty soon we will be back to the grind.
Calvary Training
This little girl does not understand, the Calvary must train somehow, and everybody is on a low budget. As the Kinks so truthfully said, “I’m a cut price person in a low budget land”. In fact, we are still in lockdown, and it’s time to cut my own hair again in that case. Do I…
What do you mean, we’re out of quarters?
Long before “Microsoft Flight Simulator”, we had this. It looks kind of silly, a grown man in that thing, but who knows. Maybe it bucks like one of those mechanical bulls they had in taverns years ago.
I got my reasons
I like these “check off the box” postcards, because who wants to waste their vacation writing home. Or in this case, who wants to waste the war writing home. This one hardly has any room on the back for a message, mainly just room for the addresses. And as such, no message was written. What…
New GI wants a raise already!
This new enlistee wants a raise on his first day. He figures that he is working harder now than he will later, because he doesn’t know what he is doing. He has a point, but that’s not how any of this works. Jeff Bezos would be making a nickel a day if you inverted the…