# FALL IN! Military Doper Roll-Call **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2000, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794 "2000-06-27T23:34:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/41 "2000-06-28T20:26:53Z")
The aforementioned best Swiddlefriend, while in training at Ft. NowWeGotcha (Huachuca) complained that while she was running 7-8 miles a day, the AF kids got off easy at 3-4. (or something. I don’t remember the milage.) I mentioned this to a friend of mine who was ex-AF. His reaction? “They have to be trained to run all over creation. We just have to run to the plane.” Amused me, pissed her off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/42 "2000-06-28T20:54:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > was SACrificed for the first time (old SAC troops know what I’m talking about). > > ~~Baloo > \*\* 10 years at Grissom; 305th AREFW. Only we called it being SACemcised. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/43 "2000-06-28T20:59:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > [slight hijack] > > I asked this in another thread but maybe since more people checked in here… > Zev Steinhardt > > [/slight hijack] > \*\* Go back to that thread, buddy. I answered you. ---
**Author:** ![Kvallulf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@Kvallulf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kvallulf)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/44 "2000-06-28T20:59:44Z")
Hello, 504 P.I.R here. Did my four, didn’t want to do anymore. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/45 "2000-06-28T21:22:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\* > > [slight hijack] > > > > I asked this in another thread but maybe since more people checked in here… > > Zev Steinhardt > > > > [/slight hijack] > > \*\* > > Go back to that thread, buddy. I answered you. > > \*\* Yes, you did, VB, and I do thank you. However, the information you gave was very vauge. I was hoping for more specific information and possibly info on other branches of the service as well. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@Lord\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/46 "2000-06-28T21:46:16Z")
I suppose I should check in, also. I spent 4 years in the Air Force many years ago in the VietNam era. Basic training at Lackland AFB, San Antonio. 1 Year training at Lowry AFB in Denver. 2 Years on Maui in a 20, or so, man detachment. That was lot’s of fun, I had an apartment on the beach. 1 Year in Tucson. Spent most of the time driving around the desert looking for missile sites (they should have given us better directions). Jim ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/47 "2000-06-28T22:21:57Z")
> [@](#): > > 1 Year in Tucson. Spent most of the time driving around the desert looking for missile sites (they should have given us better directions). Oh, that’s rich! Thanks for the chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/3ec8ea/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT_REALLY)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/48 "2000-06-29T01:23:59Z")
:wally ---
**Author:** ![Xgemina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b5e925/32.png) [@Xgemina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xgemina)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/49 "2000-06-29T01:45:25Z")
> [@](#): > > Hey Grunt, > > We flyboys had our priorities. Had to get the cable TV and AC up and running in the tent before we could worry about mundane stuff like air support and airlift Tents?! you guys had tents!? ---
**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/50 "2000-06-29T01:50:30Z")
Enlisted in USN in 1967. Left as E-7 / WO candidate in 1977. Had the most fun a Kansas flatlander was allowed to have with some of his clothes on. Zumwalt really screwed up “my” nav, so I “got out”… About a year later I was being processed into SANG and ran into some snags, couldn’t make it and was too dang prideful to return to the nav. Sometimes even now I regret not putting in my eighteen and six. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/51 "2000-06-29T03:06:47Z")
what’s a tent? is it anything like wrapping a poncho around yourself to stop that wet stuff that keeps falling out of the sky in infantry weather? what do you do with “tents”? gosh, i wish we got to use those new fangled things the gov keeps coming out with… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/52 "2000-06-29T03:07:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Hey Grunt, > > > > We flyboys had our priorities. Had to get the cable TV and AC up and running in the tent before we could worry about mundane stuff like air support and airlift > > Tents?! you guys had tents!? > \*\* Hell yes, Xgemina, this is the _United States_ Air Force we’re talking about, not fuckin’ Madagascar or Bolivia. Just because you can project devastating airpower over the entire globe and lay waste to any nation’s military and civilian infrastructure doesn’t mean that you can’t do it in _style_! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/53 "2000-06-29T03:12:43Z")
**Xgemina** , i’ll bet the fly boys used puss-pads to sleep on underneath their bags as well, and maybe even had cots or something like in the mash units. livin’ the life huh **blue**? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/54 "2000-06-29T03:16:14Z")
U.S. Navy 1992-2000 Four years active as an AO3 Four years reserve as BU2 (Go Seabees!) Just finished my enlistment in January, I LOVED being a Seabee. _Construimus, Batuimus_ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/55 "2000-06-29T03:18:48Z")
US Air Force, 2LT, Minot AFB No cold jokes, please. It’s not funny anymore. Missile geeks scare me. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/56 "2000-06-29T05:03:40Z")
Bluepony, any way you want to striptease is just fine by me! 😉 I just got a whole bunch of dollar bills here… And, thanks, Bluesman. I’m quite happy to be here too. And _definitely_ enjoying the view! Awwwwww, Tripler, sounds like you need a hug. {{{{Tripler}}}} The land around there has a raw, wild beauty to it, if you know where to look. So many men in uniform… _Happy Sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/57 "2000-06-29T05:46:05Z")
_passes bottle of wine over to purp_ I know…isn’t it GREAT? _swoons_ ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/58 "2000-06-29T06:17:32Z")
Distractedly taking a sip from the bottle, purplebear doesn’t notice a few drops slowly making their way down her neck and onto her upper… Yes, indeedy. Great view from here, Falcon! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![djwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@djwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/59 "2000-06-29T06:29:58Z")
USAF 1987-1991 Lackland AFB, 3701 BMTS Tinker AFB, 2854 Civil Engineering Squadron Prime Beef (rapid runway repair, emergency airfield lighting, mobile aircraft arresting systems, and changing light bulbs in full chemical gear) One of the last E-4 buck sergeants in the Air Force; shortly after I got out they quit making E-4’s into sergeants (any current AF can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that’s true). When the war broke out all I did was pack my bags and stay on standby for a few months. I think they did fine over there without my assistance. Still I’m proud to have served, and my certificate of appointment as a non-commissioned officer will always be one of the things I’m most proud of. djwalker ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@Mr\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Bear)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794/60 "2000-06-29T07:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Bluepony, any way you want to striptease is just fine by me! 😉 I just got a **whole bunch of dollar bills** here… No wonder I don’t have any money here! 😃 > [@](#): > > what’s a tent? is it anything like wrapping a poncho around yourself to stop that wet stuff that keeps falling out of the sky in infantry weather? what do you do with “tents”? gosh, i wish we got to use those new fangled things the gov keeps coming out with… I never got to use tents either. Being an Air Force Medic, I always had to stay at Holiday Inn! 🆒 Once I had to really rough it and spent one week at Motel 6.:eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fall-in-military-doper-roll-call/23794.md?page=4)