Reply #75: I'm glad you made it too, bro [View All]

[pinboy3niner]

I never thought of it as being "the man," and most of the time I was pretty much like any other grunt. On a plt. S&D I always walked behind the slack man, because that was the best place to control our movement (and I still believe that what made me a good plt. ldr. was mostly that I was very good with a map--I always knew where we were, and we never got lost).

The only bennie I remember was that my RTO would make coffee for me, and sometimes heat my C's (or LRRP's, on the rare occasions when we had them). After humping all day on a plt. S&D, we'd form a perimeter in the eve (before dividing up into squad-sized ambushes). While I went around and put in the positions and fire zones, my RTO would fix the coffee--and what a bennie that was! After I got the plt. settled in, I'd have the coffee while I stripped to check for leeches.

To this day, there are times when cradling a hot cup of coffee can take me back and bring tears to my eyes. The feeling of warmth, and comfort--and luxury!--is just overwhelming.

Sounds like you've been there, done that, and you'll understand exactly what I mean. I got out long, long ago, and I don't take any 'sir' crap off anybody. That was another fuckin' world...

Love & Peace, Bro
pinboy3niner

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