The Army teaches you how to stand in line, long lines.
Remember the processing station where you spent two weeks getting your
clothing, the battery of test-lasting two days, getting your shots, the make work
details because they did not want recuits 'laying around.'
'Get them off their butts, put them in line.'
'A line for what?'
' A line to keep them busy?'
'How can they be busy standing in line.'
'March them around then.'
'They don't know how to march.'
'No, but they'll be off their butts.'
The most important, and the most lasting behavior they taught you: HOW TO STAND IN LINE. You stand in line and wait, that's the army way.
You become accustomed to lines, you develop the ability to enter a comatose state as you wait, wait and wait.
They tell you, 'Once you reach you permanent station, things will be better.'
In Basic and AIT your CO eats an occasional meal in the mess hall.
The cooks never know when the CO will show up for a meal-it keeps them on their toes. However, your still standing in lines.
Now you get to your permanent duty station. There is no longer company mess, there
is no longer company anything---- it is now BATTALION.
You thought you had learned how to stand in line,
Naw, now you get to stand in battalion lines!
The mess hall was a two story building: they feed your battalion and another;
two battalions, that is somewhere around 1200 men.
Ah, your so happy that you had learned how to STAND IN LINE.
Should I digress and discuss the delicious field rations. Who knows, they may have
been edible if warmed. Who can forget the wonderful Ham and Lima Beans with the
congealed grease? When did the Pork and Beans Ration become gourmet dining?
I still check the employment ads, looking for employment where standing in line
experience is considered an asset-still looking.
Remember the processing station where you spent two weeks getting your
clothing, the battery of test-lasting two days, getting your shots, the make work
details because they did not want recuits 'laying around.'
'Get them off their butts, put them in line.'
'A line for what?'
' A line to keep them busy?'
'How can they be busy standing in line.'
'March them around then.'
'They don't know how to march.'
'No, but they'll be off their butts.'
The most important, and the most lasting behavior they taught you: HOW TO STAND IN LINE. You stand in line and wait, that's the army way.
You become accustomed to lines, you develop the ability to enter a comatose state as you wait, wait and wait.
They tell you, 'Once you reach you permanent station, things will be better.'
In Basic and AIT your CO eats an occasional meal in the mess hall.
The cooks never know when the CO will show up for a meal-it keeps them on their toes. However, your still standing in lines.
Now you get to your permanent duty station. There is no longer company mess, there
is no longer company anything---- it is now BATTALION.
You thought you had learned how to stand in line,
Naw, now you get to stand in battalion lines!
The mess hall was a two story building: they feed your battalion and another;
two battalions, that is somewhere around 1200 men.
Ah, your so happy that you had learned how to STAND IN LINE.
Should I digress and discuss the delicious field rations. Who knows, they may have
been edible if warmed. Who can forget the wonderful Ham and Lima Beans with the
congealed grease? When did the Pork and Beans Ration become gourmet dining?
I still check the employment ads, looking for employment where standing in line
experience is considered an asset-still looking.
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