Hearts and minds

[carly_kai]

Somehow my efforts to win the hearts and minds of the airborne sojers are not working - in fact, the handle bar mustachioed Chiefs (they call them Master Warrant Officers, or Sir) are getting all red and puffy in the face and they look like a constipated baby that is grunting in his diaper!

Men...

Comments

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

heck no - I need a proper name tape with a nice anchor and black thread.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

The trouble is, Navy types don't wear that speckled green stuff at all. The thought behind that is that it's very difficult to find a bush to hide behind when one is far out to sea...

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

oh but yes we do - on an army or air force base everyone wears the can't see me suits with an environmental specific colour of t-shirt and beret.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Harumph! What's the world coming to?

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

it beats wearing full rig...

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Depends where you're wearing it.

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

the white bowler is a regular come do me hat..

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

There's a girl in my own unit who wears it daily.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

The poor dear. I feel for her.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Heh...I don't think she's seen a ship.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

How in the world can she be a proper sailor-type if they don't let her go to sea? I tell ya, these army types in charge have ruined it for everyone.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

That's for sure. Army plus anything always equals army, even though the mentality is so different. They don't tend to play well with others.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

They don't tend to play well with others.

Well, that's kind of what an Army is for when you get right down to it...

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

What happened to being on the same team?

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

The way the Army thinks is: There's our team and then there's everyone else. They can get with the program and do things the Army way; that's what good teamwork means to us.

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

Pretty much.

I'd work with the Nay anytime, not that I ever get the chance. I've had it up to my eyeballs with needless army chickenshit.

[carly-kai.livejournal.com]

army and think in the same sentence?

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

It's Armythink. The brand new way to use your brain the Army way or no way at all.