Military Meme's

[Ozark Huckleberry]

3 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Do sailors really call it that?

One just did. 
 

 

6 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Until I got on the internet, I never heard it called a Dixie cup.

Tell us you were never in the Navy, without telling us you were never in the Navy. 
 

Kinda surprised me — I took over a division on the Forrestal, had to show my junior enlisted how to box their covers ‘old school.’

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Sedalia Dave]

Called it that when I was in. 82 to 02. 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

[Sedalia Dave]

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

47 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

I want one!

[Alpo]

Maybe you can get Marshal Mo Hare to find one for you. Apparently the guy that makes them lives in Russia.

 

https://englishrussia.com/2009/02/15/steampulk-tableware/#more-2295

[Sedalia Dave]

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

17 hours ago, Alpo said:

Maybe you can get Marshal Mo Hare to find one for you. Apparently the guy that makes them lives in Russia.

 

https://englishrussia.com/2009/02/15/steampulk-tableware/#more-2295

There’s some cool stuff in there, but the post is from 2009. 

[Pat Riot]

On 11/29/2023 at 9:08 AM, Alpo said:

Do sailors really call it that?

 

Until I got on the internet, I never heard it called a Dixie cup. It was a white hat. Sailors wore white hats.

Yes, we called it the “Dixie cup” hat or cover. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

On 11/29/2023 at 9:08 AM, Alpo said:

Do sailors really call it that?

 

Until I got on the internet, I never heard it called a Dixie cup. It was a white hat. Sailors wore white hats.

Buddy of mine served on the Saratoga.

He refers to the white cover as a Cracker Jack.

[Sedalia Dave]

8 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said:

Buddy of mine served on the Saratoga.

He refers to the white cover as a Cracker Jack.

That’s what I called my Dress Blues. 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

and the field was soon clear cut 

[Sedalia Dave]

1 hour ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

and the field was soon clear cut 

 

Gotta have a proper LZ. 

[PowderRiverCowboy]

[PowderRiverCowboy]

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

8 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

Rangers.  The ONLY soldiers who wish they were Marines.

[Texas Joker]

Over, under, around and through. The best ways to deal with an obstacle

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

*Primary Leadership Qualification

It's a Canadian Thing!

[Black Angus McPherson]

3 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

*Primary Leadership Qualification

It's a Canadian Thing!

 

Two questions:

What is "PLQ"?

What is the new rank?  "Special Corporal"?  "Leaf Corporal"?  "Special Chevron Corporal"?  

 

Angus

[DocWard]

17 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

 

I've met plenty of Rangers. One of my best friends was one. I always thought "Hey Diddle Diddle, Straight Up The Middle" was more applicable to Marines, though.

[Alpo]

21 minutes ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

Two questions:

What is "PLQ"?

What is the new rank?  "Special Corporal"?  "Leaf Corporal"?  "Special Chevron Corporal"?  

 

Angus

I had the same question, so I looked up Canadian enlisted ranks.

 

A slick sleeve is an untrained private. One chevron is a trained private. Two chevrons is a corporal. Two chevrons and an oak leaf is a master corporal.

[Black Angus McPherson]

32 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I had the same question, so I looked up Canadian enlisted ranks.

 

A slick sleeve is an untrained private. One chevron is a trained private. Two chevrons is a corporal. Two chevrons and an oak leaf is a master corporal.

 

OK, Call me "Master Corporal".

Thanks

Now, what is "PLQ"?

 

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

19 hours ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

 

earn my Ranger Tab in '69

 

"the shortest distance between you and your objective is usually mined"

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

OK, Call me "Master Corporal".

Thanks

Now, what is "PLQ"?

 

Hey now, fair is fair. I figured out Master corporal. PLQ is yours. So stop dragging around and get to it.

[Michigan Slim]

I can see R. Lee yelling "What's your malfunction, Private Lip Quiver!"

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

well it could be akin to 

PLDC  Primary leadership corse  for remps   or 

 

 PNOC  primary Non-Commissioned Officers Corse   Combat Arms 

 

  Chickasaw Bill 

[Alpo]

According to here

https://www.allacronyms.com/PLQ

 

The number one on the list is primary leadership qualifications, Canadian military.

[PowderRiverCowboy]

3 hours ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

 

earn my Ranger Tab in '69

 

"the shortest distance between you and your objective is usually mined"

Marine then went Army tabbed not scrolled  But the unit I was in well Platoon Sgt was Ranger(scrolled ) SF and former Delta . 
  We were training a unit for breaching a room they kept messing up and on a live fire shoot house I said here try this , Cracked the door and tossed a thermobaric grenade in and said thats how you clear a room  
  I was in Iraq had no missions going the next day and a Marine unit asked our LT if he had someone that could rollout as they were a man short (sick ) . They asked who had the "club patch "ironed on inside of ACU blouse , Of course me and LT said well at least he speaks your terms LOL. I said sure . The Master Guns in charge asked if I wanted to drive or be gunner . 
  LT yells hold up , he drives because he will shoot any damn thing that looks cross eyed at me . The Master Guns just laughed and said still a Marine . I ended up driving  

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

6 hours ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

OK, Call me "Master Corporal".

Thanks

Now, what is "PLQ"?

 

 

You Pards have to start reading my Ultra, Super Duper, highly secret/Classified hidden texts! LOL

* Primary Leadership Course

Edited December 5, 2023 by Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

17 hours ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:

Rangers.  The ONLY soldiers who wish they were Marines.

And they come mighty close.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

On 12/3/2023 at 8:34 AM, Pat Riot said:

Yes, we called it the “Dixie cup” hat or cover. 

I was told that it was a Dixie cup when out friend's son came home from the pacific with his friends in 1946 or1947.  I was about five years old and have called them Dixie cups ever since.

 

Once in awhile I've heard the called Popeyes, too.

[Pat Riot]

9 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Once in awhile I've heard the called Popeyes, too.

I haven’t heard Dixie Cups referred to as Popeyes. I do recall in Naples Italy toward the middle of a Med Cruise we had a new Master Chief of the Command and he dictated that all Enlisted below E-7 (CPO) must wear dress uniforms on Liberty. 
Side note: That guy was the most bitter miserable sonofab*tch I do believe I have ever known. I think the Captain brought him aboard so HE wouldn’t be the most hated man aboard.

Anyway, my buddies and I were walking down the street towards The Piano Bar when some local guy calls to us “Hey Popeye!”

My buddies got ticked. 
I laughed and yelled back in my best Popeye imitation “Whaddya want? Ack-ack-ack-ack-ACK”

The guy and these pretty ladies he was with started laughing. 
My buddies started laughing.

The guy says “Come, try my bar. I have American whiskey and pretty girls. Popeye, you get the first drink free.”

Well, guess where we spent the rest of the day and most of the night. We had a ball. 
 

Just to be clear - I didn’t go because of the pretty girls. I was married and faithful. I went for the Whiskey!