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2025-05-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army

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Posted by BrerRabbit 2025-05-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [212 views ] Top

#1 Don't wash another's socks.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-15 03:31|| 2025-05-15 03:31|| Front Page Top

#2 An oldie but a goodie.
("Skippy" Scharwz was in the 82nd Abn in Bosnia during the Clinton years.)

Posted by ed in texas 2025-05-15 09:14|| 2025-05-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 My favorite is " Do not dare SERE graduates to eat bugs. They will always do it."
SERE school is Survival,Evasion, Resistance and Escape. It is given to those who are most likely to become POWs, like pilots.
Apparently it is very intense. I talked to one Navy pilot who said he would turn in his wings if they ever made him take it again.

Posted by Rambler 2025-05-15 10:52|| 2025-05-15 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently it is very intense.

If you're caught.

When I was in, some of those guys took their roles very seriously.

Posted by badanov 2025-05-15 11:03|| 2025-05-15 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 SERE is featured in an episode (or two?) of "The Unit". I loved "The Unit"--4 seasons of great story telling.

Posted by Crusader 2025-05-15 12:05|| 2025-05-15 12:05|| Front Page Top

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