? for recent USMC vets
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
Very much to my regret, I never had a set. When I was in you had to buy them and they cost about a month and a half's pay
The "issued" also means "bought"!
Don forget that.
I bought my only set for my last Marine Corps Ball as a MSGT. I did not want a set until I had enough enough stripes/hash marks and stuff to make them look right.
I also bought Evening Dress Blues. Expensive S.O.B.s to wear twice!
And now they shrunk in the damn closet!
Don forget that.
I bought my only set for my last Marine Corps Ball as a MSGT. I did not want a set until I had enough enough stripes/hash marks and stuff to make them look right.
I also bought Evening Dress Blues. Expensive S.O.B.s to wear twice!
And now they shrunk in the damn closet!
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Thank you Sister!
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
I heard that!
FatboyFlash
Senior Member
Gomer Pyle got his the first day. Had gunny stripes already on em!
spittinfire
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What “blues” are we talking about here?
We were issued deltas and charlies and when I say issued, we paid for them along with everything else we were “issued”. It’s basically the same as your service charlies and bravos with different color trousers.
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We were issued deltas and charlies and when I say issued, we paid for them along with everything else we were “issued”. It’s basically the same as your service charlies and bravos with different color trousers.
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I always used to think that " Trops" or Tropical uniforms in short or long sleeves with a tie was one of the better looking uniforms. Either a piss cutter or a frame cover too.
FatboyFlash
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That’s how I got mine. They were free for me but I loaned them to a buddy for his wedding and never got them back.
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
Good for him! I was a Pvt E-1 my entire first year in the Corps. By the end of the following year I was a Cpl E-4. God bless 1st Lt R B Taylor and Gunnery Sgt John Vegas whose boot marks are still in my ass. You would not believe all the crap I got from other NCOs because I was a slick sleeve (no hash mark) Cpl.
Those are slang for different kinds of covers (hats).
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
Incidentally, there's another name for that cover and it refers to the shape of the top of the cover. Those who were in the Corps will know what I'm talking about but I'll refrain from printing it for fear of a sharp slap on the wrist.
spittinfire
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Nope, it's a shorter, less polite veracular.
I can't say it cause the Nun will smack me with the ruler!
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BudE
Hillsborough, NC
Sent you a PM telling you what it was called.
Chuckman
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My mom called my dad's cap a "piss cutter," HE called it the "c**t cap".... the Navy calls it the garrison cap or fore-and-aft cap...
I enjoyed wearing the Marines uniform as a corpsman...outside of the Marines, no one ever knew exactly what to make of me or what my rank was....
Not me, but the same uni:
I enjoyed wearing the Marines uniform as a corpsman...outside of the Marines, no one ever knew exactly what to make of me or what my rank was....
Not me, but the same uni:
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I refer to the Nun as the Moderator that sends me little messages for losing my mind and talking like I was in the CPO lounge on the boat.
I get smacked with the ruler, and I deserve it!
Go to Battery Oaks....you can talk any way you like there!
Thank God.......it's the only place in my little world that I can talk like I actually talk and not have to edit myself! lol.
We called it the same thing in the Army.