From: Thomas M McHugh (tmmchugh@msn.com)
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 05:47:14 PST
Everette,
I took Basic in 1951. How dare you call 1958 the olden days. They were
already the fun days.
Tom McHugh, NJ
1952 m38A1
MVPA, MTA
----- Original Message -----
From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Cattle cars
> Back in the olden days -1958- as a recruit at Ft. Chaffee, Ark. we walked
> every where we went - unless short trips which we ran - even walked the
> 100
> miles - or so it seemed - to the rifle range. I did not know the Army had
> wheeled vehicles back then. Then and there was where I learned that it
> was
> raining you always ran because a running figure does not get as wet as a
> walking figure. After 30 minutes or so of running then you were stopped
> and
> told to put your poncho on, which involved stopping. removing and
> "grounding" the pistol belt while you unfolded and put poncho on. It
> takes
> real skill to put pistol belt on while wearing poncho.
>
> Everette
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