For Future Reference
Things not to do when conducting a 17 mile foot march in full gear:
1. Have your hair cut earlier in the day by the German barber-ladies that leave your neck and shoulders covered in razor-sharp slivers of shaved hair.
2. Wear metal jewelry of any sort around your neck. I'm going to guess the ring where my cross' necklace was sawed into my neck and chest will be gone in another day or two. (Note: this rule includes dog-tags, which are by regulation worn around the neck. Find something else to loop them on to. I was really glad I overlooked them altogether.)
3. Wear underwear.
That is all.
(Oh, and if you can, avoid switching out your old small arms protective inserts (SAPI) for the newer, greener, heavier version.)
5 comments:
Are you implying that you didn't wear underwear? And how is that in any way better than me discussing my hemmrhoids? (sp?)
Everyone knows what it is like to go without underwear (or if they don't, can give it a shot without much trouble). Not everyone knows nor wants to know what it is like to have hemorrhoids.
Nah, they're totally the same think. It's like Dyk said on my blog: "[Matt] desires that we all know his pain. And feel really uncomfortable." That's totally what's prompting this post - Dyk (I'm trying to keep this kind of anonymous for you Dyk, but it's really tough and feels artificiall). Anyways, Dyk is trying to share his pain with us. And by making us imagine the chaffing that he's experienced, he's trying to make us feel very uncomfortable in the same sort of way. Underwear chaffing is parallel to hemorrhoids. Not as unpleasant, but parallel.
I for one have no sympathy for you honey. Maybe I can shame you into putting your underwear back on by telling everyone that you've been on an 'underwear strike' since graduating from Ranger School and no matter how many jokes or faces of disgust I make, I don't know if I'll ever be able to get you to wear underwear on a regular basis again. Maybe Matt can.
Oh, for crying out loud...
Honey, did you even read the blog?
There was underwear, and it was a questionable decision. That was my point. You have to be very careful what you wear when doing that much walking.
As for this supposed "underwear strike," life in the Army has proved it to be a generally unnecessary item of clothing, though sometimes appropriate for formal events. This is largly standard practice among infantrymen, and I can hardly believe you'd ever speak ill of the members our United States Armed Forces. For Shame.
Speaking of shame, now that it has been established that I have none, thank you for telling everyone that you make faces of disgust when you see me without underwear. I bet the faces would be worse if I wore the skimpy brown ones the Army issued me three years ago.
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