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TEB

(12,840 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:37 AM Mar 2020

The troops are bitching so morale must be high a old army saying

The troops as I fondly refer to our sons as they sit at the kitchen bar. I hear them grumbling bitching this is stupid it’s ridiculous. Dear mom has hit them with math assignments today. As state schools have suspended all cyber schooling. Tomorrow is English I think I’ll sit in and learn proper punctuation we have downloaded Rosetta Stone so our one son can continue his German language studies.

My conversation German has been coming back to me as well. From when I was a kid in army exchange program with our west German sister infantry battalion, Beachtung kontakt panzers 2000 meter nord. sarcasm people I’m stressed as all of us.

Our golden retriever is working from home with the love of his life my wife. From the front room couch he is now a CCO chief cuddle officer. And as I sit on back porch my right paw boog is digging a hole. It is a new hole the best hole ever. He digs stops looks in the hole starts digging some more.

Well I’m gonna start lasagna for a all day snack. Eat when you want eat as much as you want around here be safe to you and the families.

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The troops are bitching so morale must be high a old army saying (Original Post) TEB Mar 2020 OP
Gott sei Dank fur die Hunde! hlthe2b Mar 2020 #1
Boog says danke dame TEB Mar 2020 #2
Every noncom ever sarge43 Mar 2020 #3
Stay safe friend we just TEB Mar 2020 #7
A soldier exchange with a German tank unit is something I regret not doing when I was over there. Aristus Mar 2020 #4
This former crunchy sends you hugs TEB Mar 2020 #5
Back at you... Aristus Mar 2020 #6

hlthe2b

(102,200 posts)
1. Gott sei Dank fur die Hunde!
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 07:53 AM
Mar 2020

Gott sei Dank für die Hunde! (Subject line won't allow for umlauts...LOL)

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
3. Every noncom ever
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 09:09 AM
Mar 2020

"Keep 'em busy. Otherwise, they'll start screwing around, them what be in charge will notice and you'll be up to your ass in paper work."

You all stay safe, too.

Aristus

(66,310 posts)
4. A soldier exchange with a German tank unit is something I regret not doing when I was over there.
Mon Mar 23, 2020, 10:09 AM
Mar 2020

My German is pretty good, and of course, the Germans all speak excellent English.

I would have loved to crew the Leopard II. It has the same gun and ammunition as our M1 Abrams.

Y'all stay safe and healthy. German is a wonderful language. Enjoy your studies.

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