“If A Thing Can Go Wrong, Dept.”
Burn the Fornicate
out of my left palm today
just before Drill Comp
so I hoist second unit’s
guideon for three days’ practice.
Tag: PISC
Day 50(4) PISC – 1967
“Regimental Field Meet”
Jim Clements and I
take turns jogging half-mile track
for fireman’s carry.
(gets us an half-hour of ‘free’ time each day for a week. He ain’t heavy: he’s from Sanford! The event is a relay-team event in which one teammate lies down and the other runs 100 feet or so and puts him over his shoulders – no helping from the recumbent! – and races back to tag the next runner through four runners and then the process is repeated with the original runners now reclined…I carry Jimmy with some trouble, like a sack of potatoes: to him I am a sack of potato chips! Of course we win: we are Platoon 1047, First Battalion Field Meet Champs and our Battalion marches off with the top prize here as well!)
Day 50(3) PISC – 1967
“Combat Readiness Test(3) – Fun In The Fall Sun”
pull-ups, step-ups, and
rope swing and rope climb, low crawl,
push-ups and sit-ups.
(fireman’s carry as well…all timed or minimums required. Fun in the Fall sun, before Joe Palumbo twisted knee and everyone pulled together – and, no, that is not what Gung Ho translates as…more like Strive For Harmony!)
Day 47 PISC – 1967 – Tanka 51
“Plans Are Made – By Us ‘Boots'”
Mess-N-Maintenance
almost gone and plans get made
to ‘treat’ our DIs.
Some steal uniform shirts and
others Smokey Bear covers.
(mechanics’ tools, duty belts, and, yes, a canteen or three of Staff NCO Club hootch)
Day 44 PISC – 1967
‘Mess Week’ I strike gold!
Duty at Dispensary
answering Chief’s phone.
Day 33(3) PISC – 1967
“Serving My Time In The Barrel”
Ed Spoon comes
with supper and shines my boots
because I took his test?
Day 33 PISC – 1967 – Tanka 27
“Unit Punishment”
I’m not the only
upfuck: seeing out ‘toon rag
furled as we watched
on our bellies in ‘low crawl’
through the sandspurs really hurt.
Day 32(3) PISC – 1967
“Restriction(2)”
‘Bulldog’ brings me chow
and other ‘non-readers’
keep my chores caught up.
Day 32(2) PISC – 1967 – Tanka 24
“Restriction”
I’m restricted to
“my rack” since my rifle coach
got ‘a week on-base’
when my rifle is ‘unsafe.’
They exercise while I watch.
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