Thank you to all of our veterans - we appreciate everything you have gone through in the defense of our country!
At one point I made the mistake of taking some ribbing between two different branches of the military as a nasty fight - it wasn’t. I’ve learned that there’s a lot of that ribbing that goes on!
In anticipation of this year’s Veterans Day and to help those of us who didn’t serve be able to recognize that good-natured ribbing, I’d love to hear about the FUN rivalries that go on in the military.
Please keep it PG-13 rated using the appropriate blank spaces for the adult language.
We called the Air Force the chair force. The Navy got made fun of as well by those of us in the Army. All in good fun, because they may be the ones who save your tail.
I am Air Force-and proud of it, but I have always had a lot of respect for those Navy pilots that can land on a postage stamp in the middle of the ocean.
I recall referring to the USNA as Canoe U, and USMA as Hudson High…and of course squids and grunts. (I actually remember some pretty foul jodies about Navy and Marine life choices and partners which I won’t repeat here).
I’m affiliated with the local group of Cannoneers and every St Barbara’s Day during the Dining Out, I provide a toast to the Army from their “son” the Air Force (and as you can imagine they include a good bit of ribbing but always end with respect.
At the end of the day (and I think most servicemen/women feel this way) while we joke around, we all have mad mutual respect for the other branches.
But I’m happy to join in the fray here with a couple of my favorite memes along these lines:
While stationed in Germany (Hahn Air Base) we had an Army unit assigned to the base for perimeter defense. I was off duty, eating at Burger King and wearing an Army tee shirt. An Army colonel asked me if I was Army, I said no, I just wear this shirt when I know I’ll be eating with my fingers. My boss, Colonel Iron Mike Wheeler, called me in the next day. We had a good laugh.
Sure, we’re all donut boys and desk jockeys until you need death from above and/or your butts pulled out of a sling from a hot LZ and patched up on the way back to base………lol.
And you will never ever have a cool knick name it will be the most idiotic or accidental thing you ever did, and all you can do is hope like hell you out last their enlistments but that never ever helps because they have already told everybody the story behind your handle in the worst possible way and if you are talking to a girl they are going to come up and tell her about your wife and nine kids at home and what a nasty case of syphilis you just got over. Even though you aren’t married.
Oh and good God don’t let them find out you have some strange fear. I might have heard of an alleged xo with an alleged fear of reptiles who woke up after liberty with a 6 foot python. All rumor and speculation. He was a prick though. Fortunately I wasn’t on his ship.
All true. I somehow ended up with the nickname of Country F##k…Couldnt shake it until one day when I walked in with a new pair of combat boots that squeaked with every step. From that day forward I was known as MSgt Squeek.
Another guy disappeared one day for about 4 hours. When he returned the boss kind of yelled at him saying “where the hell you been?” He got the nickname of Uben after that. Man I miss those days.
On board a submarine if you had a fear the crew felt obligated to help you overcome that fear. So you were sure to face it as often as possible. You had two choices. Break or get over it. Lol
It’s all good natured ribbing between services but we respect and need every single sailor soldier airman marine and coast guardsman. This is what I drink coffee out of every day. Love all my fellow service men and women.
