tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post4045336834618122004..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: The Army I Knew: M*U*S*TFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-5743290615528809032016-01-24T13:20:31.894-07:002016-01-24T13:20:31.894-07:00Funny thing: for all that there probably SHOULD ha...Funny thing: for all that there probably SHOULD have been huge parallels, I don't remember anybody at the time really thinking that the CSH and the MASH were twins of different mothers...<br /><br />Probably just because the period seemed so anti-Vietnam (since both the film and the TV series were really about Vietnam...). There seemed nothing to rebel against. We were all just pretty much drawing a paycheck, and that didn't seem like enough to get arsed about.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-63707122678488961402016-01-22T15:50:11.280-07:002016-01-22T15:50:11.280-07:00The main hero, of course would be very handsome an...The main hero, of course would be very handsome and clever.Plutohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04036751798841079048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-77752115055004235952016-01-22T15:49:12.562-07:002016-01-22T15:49:12.562-07:00I can hear the helicopters and theme music now. O...I can hear the helicopters and theme music now. Oddly, the music is a combination of M*A*S*H and the Keystone Cops. Less impressive surgical skills but potentially funnier in a slapstick way.Plutohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04036751798841079048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-66778412099732184752016-01-21T16:00:56.295-07:002016-01-21T16:00:56.295-07:00Keep them coming, Chief!Keep them coming, Chief!BigFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442240891955984577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-30513049685466938872016-01-21T15:21:03.257-07:002016-01-21T15:21:03.257-07:00Your last line reminded me of the lquote from Mich...Your last line reminded me of the lquote from Michael Herr's book Dispatches. Roughly, war stories and fairy tales are very much the same except fairy tales begin "once upon a time" and war stories begin "this is no shit".Big Daddynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-26720950453911601632016-01-21T15:06:13.971-07:002016-01-21T15:06:13.971-07:00Ael: Glad you do. I try and entertain...
Leon: I...Ael: Glad you do. I try and entertain...<br /><br />Leon: I'll get further into this in he next installment, but I kind of think of my then-self more like Grima Wormtongue, slyly manipulating my boss, but in that case in an attempt to bring some sort of military order out of the chaos that was the sort of thing you'd probably have found in a vast majority of the USAR combat service support outfits in 1987...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-66227794840783847592016-01-21T14:52:01.093-07:002016-01-21T14:52:01.093-07:00I now have the mental image of you as Dwight Schru...I now have the mental image of you as Dwight Schrute in camo...Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-30266134357954822592016-01-21T12:07:24.391-07:002016-01-21T12:07:24.391-07:00I love your stories, Chief.
And yes, military nam...I love your stories, Chief.<br /><br />And yes, military naming conventions.<br /><br />I remember listening to one of our gun sergeants telling his gun numbers to remember their "boots, rubber, clumsy" cause it was going to be muddy.<br /><br />Even the slang was NATO standard.<br /><br />Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.com