Funniest or most memorable sayings... (Navy, Marine, training, platoon)

[Rathagos]

From your time in the service... what was one of the funniest (or most memorable) sayings from your time in the service.

The one that popped into my head comes all the way back from Navy bootcamp in 1982. Standing there... all newly bald... we were receiving our issued allowance. The Chief was explaining the purpose of ditty bags (things that hold personal hygiene, etc.). He was walking up and down the aisle between the two rows of us at the food of our bunks. He stated that the only truly important things to us... the only thing that mattered was what was in that ditty bag.

He stopped in the middle of the room. Got dead quiet... looked up and down the lines of recruits and ended it with this:

"Just in case any of you are wondering... you're girlfriend or wife is NOT important in the Navy... she didn't come in a ditty bag, did she!?!"

We did pushups for days on that one because many of us started laughing.

[El Rhino]

In Iraq my company humped about 25-30K to a town South of where our FOB was to conduct a few days of patrolling and other operations. Since we would be on the move a lot, everyone packed light. I think it was in the middle of October, so it was warm during the day and started to get chilly at night, especially when you get sweaty from walking around during the day. I think I brought gloves, watch cap, fleece and a poncho warmer to keep warm, as well as an iso mat to sleep on. This other guy didn't really bring anything to keep warm. When we weren't on patrol, we were supposed to be 50/50 within fire teams to keep watch on our patrol base. Our platoon sergeant was walking around to make sure people were on guard. He gets to the guy who didn't bring cold weather gear, who has a pair of underwear on his head as a watch cap.

"Thompson, what's on your head?"

"Uhhh, underwear, staff sergeant"

He's silent for a few seconds, in disbelief.

"Of course. Why wouldn't you have underwear on your head?" and then he walked off.

[Steel Man]

Basic Training...TI would say, get me a tractor so I can pull your heads out of your a..

[breeze823]

One that I thought was funny was when my husband was close to getting out of the Marine Corps, the saying was "you're so short (short on time) that you could sit on a dime and your legs would dangle" or something like that,lol...
Plus I always like those cadence songs, funny

Oh, and this was funny. Once in my husbands unit, there was a GSGT named Canejo and people would call him from time to time "bendajo" (sp?) which in Spanish is A-hole and he'd go ballistic if he heard that. Well, they got a new guy come in and he was to report to Gunny Canejo but they told him his name was Gunny Bendejo, when the guy called him that, he went off...not a good way to start off the relationship...of course my husband and all his buddies thought it was hilarious

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by breeze823

told him his name was Gunny Bendejo, when the guy called him that, he went off...not a good way to start off the relationship...of course my husband and all his buddies thought it was hilarious

That kind of reminds me of the pranks we would pull on the new guys involving the Gunny. We would tell them to go ask the Gunny for the humvee keys (humvees don't have keys), headlight fluid, grid squares, 50 feet of shoreline, chemlite batteries and a prc E-7 (pronouced "prick" and E-7 is the pay grade for Gunnery Sergeant). Good times.

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

That kind of reminds me of the pranks we would pull on the new guys involving the Gunny. We would tell them to go ask the Gunny for the humvee keys (humvees don't have keys), headlight fluid, grid squares, 50 feet of shoreline, chemlite batteries and a prc E-7 (pronouced "prick" and E-7 is the pay grade for Gunnery Sergeant). Good times.

hee hee....I know my husband had the best times with those guys! What company were you in? My husband was in TOW...(I ask because of the humvees )

[Zig'sbird]

Originally Posted by El Rhino

That kind of reminds me of the pranks we would pull on the new guys involving the Gunny. We would tell them to go ask the Gunny for the humvee keys (humvees don't have keys), headlight fluid, grid squares, 50 feet of shoreline, chemlite batteries and a prc E-7 (pronouced "prick" and E-7 is the pay grade for Gunnery Sergeant). Good times.

My favorite - telling one to check the gap on the spark plugs for the humvee as part of the PMCS.

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by breeze823

hee hee....I know my husband had the best times with those guys! What company were you in? My husband was in TOW...(I ask because of the humvees )

I was in a line company, just a basic rifleman. We had a couple humvees in the company, but the majority of the things we did were on foot.

[ESFP]

When thanked for a job (CG), we answered, "It's the least we can do, and you know we always do the least we can do."

[El Rhino]

Originally Posted by ESFP

When thanked for a job (CG), we answered, "It's the least we can do, and you know we always do the least we can do."

"Don't thank me, I get thanked on the 1st and the 15th"


or

"No, don't thank me. Thank your recruiter"