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Monday, November 8, 2004 |
I posted this as a comment on Eric's Random Musings but thought I'd save it as a journal entry, since I seem so lazy to write anything for myself.
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The last item in your list reminds me of similar off color humor we had in the Precision Drill Unit of my ROTC detatchment at the University of Southern California.
I sometimes wonder if it is a peculiar American trait to play so many pranks, and pull so many stunts, especially to break the monotony or seriousness of a situation.
One of the things I remember well, was the firing sequence of the M1 rifle - it is one of an endless series of facts we had to memorize on the odd chance an onery Marine Drill Sergeant would ask us about it. The M1 rifle is no longer used of course, but it is the staple of Drill Teams around the country.
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We would practice our own inpections every thursday morning at "O-Dark-Thirty", where our own PDU commander and the element leaders would perform the inspections. Once, when asked to recite the firing sequence, a particularly mischievious member of the team recited the order with progressively more sexually suggestive intonation of each word - giving an entirely new meaning to it.
Here's the sequence;
"Sir, the firing sequence of the M1 rifle is as follows!:
Feeding
Chambering
Locking
Firing
Unlocking
Extraction
Ejection
...Sir!"
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