Civilian vs Military

[MrsWildweasel]

I think a few of us can relate to this.


Civilian versus Military Friends

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week

MILITARY FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily
Carry on the same conversation you were having last time you met.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Never ask for food

Military FRIENDS: Are the reason you have no food.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. and Mrs.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Call your parents mom and dad

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was
Wrong.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Would be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...we
Screwed Up...but that shit was fun!"

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Have never seen you cry.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Cry with you.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: know a few things about you.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Could write a book with direct quotes from you.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that's what the crowd is doing.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds ass that left you.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Would knock on your door.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Walk right in and say, "I'm home!"

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Are for a while.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Are for life.

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Will take your drink away when they think you've had
enough.

MILITARY FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the placeAnd say,
"You better drink the rest of that; you know we don't waste... that's Alcohol Abuse!!"

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: WILL TALK SHIT TO THE PERSON WHO TALKS SHIT ABOUT YOU.

MILITARY FRIENDS: WILL KNOCK THEM THE HELL OUT!!!

 

[Rockrivr1]

MILITARY FRIENDS: Will look at you stumbling all over the placeAnd say,
"You better drink the rest of that; you know we don't waste... that's Alcohol Abuse!!"

Wow, did that one sentence bring back some memories. Won't go into to much detail, but it involves Mezcal, the worm, running from the MPs, throw up in the MPs car and what your military friends will do (clean up) in order to keep you out of the brig.

It's been to long. May need to make a few phone calls tonight.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Yeah, I could relate to a few.

 

[03roushs1]

I was actually surprised at how many I could relate to.

 

[Big Daddy 45acp]

The last couple were written about me I think.
I let people look at my 201 file occasionally and they just look back at me and say "all this and You were an Army cop!?!?"

 

[MrsWildweasel]

The last couple were written about me I think.
I let people look at my 201 file occasionally and they just look back at me and say "all this and You were an Army cop!?!?"

 

[dwarven1]

Um... Sue? Right up until the one about alcohol I fit the description of the military friends better... and unless I'm suffering from amnesia, I'm a civilian.

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Well Ross, we can explain it as you have family and friends that are mil, or ex.

 

[dwarven1]

I suppose that could explain it...

 

[Ray P]

CIVILIAN FRIENDS: Get upset if you're too busy to talk to them for a week

MILITARY FRIENDS: Are glad to see you after years, and will happily
Carry on the same conversation you were having last time you met.

Gotta say that really rings true for the old shipmates I've bumped into over the years.

Left the boat in '79.
As a civvie sandcrab, I visited the boat just before her decom in '88.
I escorted the last big piece of the boat to the WA desert in '90.

I hope to attend my first reunion in LV this summer.

USS JOHN ADAMS SSBN 620

 

[Lynne]

I feel so left out.....

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Sorry Lynne.

 

[sheriff dudley]

Amen on the part that said Military friends are forever!!
my Wife of 44 years passed away last August 22nd and some of my old
Squadron buddys that i had not seen in 25 years showed up at her service
i was stuned to see them. they came to help me, after all those years, thay came
from Florida,Virginia, New Mexico, California, all over, after the service back
at my home we had a great big group Air Force hug, and i lost it, but they
held me up! you bet Military friends are Forever !!!!

God Bless our Soldiers,Sailors,Marines,and Airmen Everywhare!

Sherrif Dudley

 

[MrsWildweasel]

Yup the ones we stay in contact with are very special to us and like family. Heck we likened it to family when we were in. Son says the same about the ones he served with over in the sandbox.

 

[dwarven1]

God Bless our Soldiers,Sailors,Marines,and Airmen Everywhare!

You forgot our Coast Guardsmen & women. (my cousin's in the Coast Guard Reserve. I'm still trying to figure out how a guy who lives in OK works that out...)

 

[sheriff dudley]

Sorry i forgot the Men and Women of the Coast Guard i was a little Strest
out when i wrote that, My Cousin is a Lt Cmdr in the Coast Guard and my
Uncle Retired as a Warrent O-4 ! if i had my way i would pull all our troops
home and put them on our own borders, and keep every Sand Magot out
along with the rest of the Trash that has been washing up on our Beaches
bring back Ellis Island and the way they did things then!!!!!

Just My 2 penny,s S.D.

 

[Nickle]

You forgot our Coast Guardsmen & women. (my cousin's in the Coast Guard Reserve. I'm still trying to figure out how a guy who lives in OK works that out...)

They have their ways. Ross, did you know there's a Coast Guard Station in Burlington, VT? Yup, they patrol the lake up here, and not just the northern part by the border.

 

[Lynne]

Sorry i forgot the Men and Women of the Coast Guard i was a little Strest
out when i wrote that.

Stress is allowed luv.

 

[dwarven1]

They have their ways. Ross, did you know there's a Coast Guard Station in Burlington, VT? Yup, they patrol the lake up here, and not just the northern part by the border.

Not surprised to hear that, Rog.. Lake Champlain is pretty large! But for a guy who works on Vance AFB to join the CG? I'm not even sure that there are any LAKES around there. Someday I'll have to ask Dave about it...