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To: Bill/WA who wrote (111865)3/2/2008 6:44:04 PM
From: bruiser98  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 132070
 
Lifers. I thought the same thing. I joined the army out of high school in 1966. Volunteered for a 2nd Vietnam tour to get out three months early in 1970. (Of course, I wasn't a trigger-puller. Electronic technician.) Hope I'm never that close to slavery again.



To: Bill/WA who wrote (111865)3/3/2008 12:42:51 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Respond to of 132070
 
We called them treads, from the stripes on their sleeves. The joke was that, in the 1960s, when I served, most of us got stripes on our own sleeves pretty darned quickly. I made Staff Sergeant. Twice. And would have made it a third time if I had re-upped. Which was as likely as an Ayatollah being elected Pope. <G>


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