Milling Around The Mixer--This is an Army "Post"

jdr0918 jdr0918 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 18 18:57:48 UTC 2003


<<< In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" wrote:...(and I 
remember D & C (Drill & Ceremony: rather like marching band, for you 
civilians) fondly, and gas mask (!) drills)...I can go on, and most 
likely will, given any encouragement (or even lack of discouragement, 
probably)...marching down Memory Lane...>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Ahh, D&C...I heard that phrase for the first time about four days 
into basic; a bunch of us were milling around and a drill sergeant 
came up to me and said "You! Squad leader! Give those troops some 
D&C!" I choked -- outdoors? The only D&C I knew of was minor surgery 
for uterine fibroids...

--JDR (54E/B, the Gas Mask Lady)





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