GRUNT<br>That term of affection used to denote that filthy, sweaty, dirt-encrusted, footsore, camouflage painted, rip trousered, tired, sleepy, beautiful, rear echelon despising, brown nose hating, little SOB who has kept the wolf away from the door for over two hundred years.

 

So, you have met Top. :P<br><br>If Top was/is a grunt then there are worse things to be......

 

Armor calls 'em &quot;crunchies&quot;

 

[quote author=Scott(Gonzo) link=board=10;threadid=15858;start=0#149047 date=1055530556]<br>Yup,,I've been called that myself. Easy way to indentify a NON grunt in a war, he has a pressed uniform and shined boots. :'(<br>[/quote]<br><br>You've been called Top?

 

[quote author=Scott(Gonzo) link=board=10;threadid=15858;start=0#149047 date=1055530556]<br>Yup,,I've been called that myself. Easy way to indentify a NON grunt in a war, he has a pressed uniform and shined boots. :'(<br>[/quote]<br>Don't forget the black calves from constantly cleaning the dust off your toes.

 

While not recalling actually meeting Lary, probably due to brain cell destruction caused by fast cars, ugly women, and bad liquor, our paths have crossed many times. Possible just hours or minutes apart. We have a number of mutual friends that go back 20+ years. Kinda feel like I've known him forever. The community that we both once belonged to is small and everyone knows everyone else.<br>I too have been a grunt but now I'm a REMF and rather like it. The AC is nice and I get to have regular hours. I don't do well without my cold brewski by 1445. Kinda like coffee in the morning, tend to get a bit cranky. Besides, if I spent too many nights on the ground you'ed have to get a wrecker to get my old aching **** up off the ground.<br><br>shortround out

 

SR, some of us were smart enough to RETIRE before getting to your stage of life. How many days left on your shorttimers calendar? Non Grunt, pressed uniform, shiny brass? Thought you called them butterbars, second Lts. Worked for a major once who said you weren't even an officer until you made 1st Lt. <br><br>~Dave

 

[quote author=NWDave link=board=10;threadid=15858;start=0#149261 date=1055599579]<br>Thought you called them butterbars, second Lts. Worked for a major once who said you weren't even an officer until you made 1st Lt. <br><br>~Dave<br>[/quote]<br><br>That's about right. Heck, we Corporals used to run rough-shod over butterbars all the time. They'd send infantry 2nd Lts to the Comm Center to learn about communications. We'd welcome them in, whup their behinds in a few games of Trivial Pursuit, and rest secure in the knowledge that they'd learned their place... ;D Then it was just a matter of teaching them how to make coffee properly.

 

Dave,<br>21 Sept will give me 35 years federal service. I just shipped over for the last time. Couldn't even get a full six year hitch in. I'll end up with 40 years, 3 months, 18 days. Then I'm gonna by a new scooter and look like Willie Nelson for a year or so. ;D

 

Use to be at Pinder Barracks in Nurnburg. Rained everyday but August. Rain mixes good with cobble stone. You always saw the butterbars riding their bikes to and from the motor pool (1st Lt's drove cars). Regulations say not to render a salute from a bike as it's hazerdous, but you could see them pondering whether they should or not as they approached. If you wait til they get real close, start a quick snap and fix your hat, sometimes they would end up on the ground trying to overcompensate their mistake. We kinda kept a score over time on &quot;dropping Lt's&quot;. 3 points if they broke plane or went off track, 7 points when they hit the ground Only counted when there was a witness.

 

Since I work at Kirtland AFB and get to see many new 2 Lts, and being one of the retired NCOs, one way I have fun with them is to take an orange magic marker and put a quick swipe on one finger. I then go over to this new Lt in his/her camo's and say, &quot;Lt, I need to check something.&quot; I wipe my previously marked finger on their orange/gold bar and look at them and then say, &quot;Look!! They're still wet!!!&quot; They really love that wonderful sense of respect and they tell me with that &quot;Go to He!!&quot; look.<br><br>DW

 

I tend to ignore most everyone at the 0-5 level and below. Tolerate most 0-6's and even cally a few by their first name. That sure messed up the FNG's. <br>(Come to think of it, I tend to ignore nearly all of them. Something about politics, body orifices, high vacuums, and such)

 

I'm sure you've seen this picture before.



Cracks me up everytime I see it.