[DeTomaso] NPR P38's & P-51's - Question for the grunts
Robert Simpson
R.Simpson35 at Verizon.net
Wed Apr 1 15:36:37 EDT 2009
We used to call them John Waynes. I grew up on SAC bases from 1967 to the
early 1980s. I will never forget the day when the base commissary was
selling old C rats on pallets, each box of rats was .25 cents each. I was a
bag boy at the time and bought $10.00 worth of C rats and my dad flipped his
lid when he saw them.
I'll never forget what happened when I opened a can of beans and franks at
the dinning room table, Dad walked over and yelled "What the
hell..........beans and MOTHERF***ERS????????"
He proceeded to throw the can into the back yard, beans exploded on the back
fence and the dog was happy and content eating the bright red mess.
Dad was a Korean war vet and was a grunt in Vietnam before enlisting in the
Airforce. I deduced he had some bad memories associated with C rats, YA
THINK????? LOL
I went to basic in the MRE era (1985)and my 18 year old son is at Ft.
Benning as I write this and is supposed to attend Air Assault and Airborne
School and graduates late June.
Bob
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