Why do 80% of drivers dress like bums?

The first two weeks the drill sargents were all over me. I know they were laughing theirs butts off after some of the stuff. One time they brought me in the office and did the old Sargent Smith told me you said I was an a hole. Then I would say no I didn't say that. Then you're calling drill Sargent Smith a liar. No drill Sargent. Week three they moved on to someone else.

 

I have lighter pair that I take with me in case I have to do a lot of walking and crawling around under and on things. The offer better grip but they are not water proof and offer little ankle support. The other pair is what I normally wear. They are waterproof but have horrible traction on certain surfaces. Kind of sounds like I need to find a better pair of boots doesn't it?

 

Pretty dumb assed comment. I had a good job when I joined the Navy, it was a family tradition to serve the country that went back to before the revolution. Pat Tillman had a pretty good job as well.

Very few of the men and women currently serving needed a job but rather made a rather selfless choice to serve to protect the right of ##### like you to say stupid ####.

 

you know more about it then I do.sounds like both pairs are working for you so that's what matters.

 

Read through all that, I'm shocked. Maybe it helps that I was in an industry before this where impressions and appearances could decide your future. But when I walk into a terminal with a plain black button up collared shirt and freaking black cargo pants, I shouldn't be mistaken for management.

You either care about the impression you leave or you don't. Truth is I don't care to impress anyone but the people I'm pulling for and thier customers. I can dress like a filthy biker when with the family.

And Christ's sake never cuss in front of the terminal staff. Idiot started doing it, didn't take a hint and I walked away.

Language is a part of the presentation, and in a setting like that, you wait for them to fire the first ****.

 

My ETS was in 85... Completely different Army in that short time. Reagan modernized it in a hurry,

The only uniform part that was the same were my Boots and Low Quarters, went from M16 to A1, CRats to MRE, Steel Pot to Kevlar... I guess the gas mask was the same too.

 

Never had that problem. I was a cook/ tm so I cuddled with torpedoes all by myself every night

 

The Military is happy also so they would not have to rely on you.

 

They were still using the M16 and steel pots when I was in. Of course I was only in bootcamp and my guard unit.

 

Yeah, that would have been during the transition. I was actually still able to wear my OD Green fatigues right up until my ETS, but I had a full set of BDU's also. The wear out date was a month or so after I got out.