Subject: SEC: UNCLASSIFIED:-RESCUE - Army life
Supplied to me by Des 'Chikka' Knowles. Thanks Des
This is remarkably accurate...
Army Life
HOW TO SIMULATE AUSTRALIAN ARMY LIFE
Want to be a soldier, but really don't want to commit
precious years of your life?
Here are some easy ways to simulate exactly
what it's like to be a Australian soldier!
FIELD LIFE
Surround yourself with people who smoke like
chimneys, drink like fish,
bitch/whine/complain about EVERYTHING, and use foul
language that would make a teamster blush.
Pack three days worth of clothes and toiletries. Live
in your backyard for two weeks.
Go into the house only once in that two weeks to shower.
Dig a hole in your back yard and live in it.
Allow no
direct contact with your family. Your only means of communication
should be with letters that your neighbours have held for at least three
weeks,discarding two of five.
Every two days, fill in the hole, move to another
part of the yard and dig another hole. Every time you are approximately
half-way through digging the hole, have somebody come by, compliment
you on the fine hole you've dug and tell you to fill it in and dig it
somewhere
else.
Always dig a hole next to the hole you're living in.
This is your toilet.
Re-dig the hole every time your move your living
hole.
Fill in the old hole and mark it with a "Foul Ground" sign. Have somebody
remove the sign while you're not looking.
Collect a jar-full of ants, dirt, various bugs and
mosquitos.
Pour them down the back of your shirt.
Have week old fruit and vegetables delivered to your
back yard and wait two weeks before eating them.
If it doesn't rain, turn on the sprinklers.
If you're incredibly tired and fed-up one night,
stand guard duty in your hole from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m.
Don't sleep at all that day.
Sleep for only twenty minutes at a time. No matter
how tired you are.
Cook your meals over sterno. Prepare all meals
blindfolded using all the spices you can grope for, or none at all.
Leave to sit and turn ice cold.
Eat everything in three minutes. After eating, run
two kilometers.
Buy two rolls of toilet paper. Ensure one of these
two rolls is wet all the time.
Run around your yard, periodically throwing yourself
to the ground and crawling for at least 20 meters -- or smack your
shins, knees and elbows with a hammer.
For two days in a row, walk 10 kilometers without
stopping. Wear a back pack with fifty-five pounds of weight in it. Bitch
nd
whine the whole way.
When making sandwiches, leave the bread out for six
days, or until it is hard and stale.
Have one meal a week served to you floating in it's
own grease in a large cooler or similar insulated container.
Serve coffee,juice and other beverages the same way.
GARRISON LIFE
Surround yourself with people who smoke like
chimneys, drink like fish,bitch/whine/complain about EVERYTHING, and use
foul language that would make a teamster blush.
Wear only military uniforms. Even though nobody
cares, clean and press one dress uniform and wear it for 20 minutes.
Ask for equipment or articles of clothing you really
need, have somebody tell you that you're not entitled to it. Walk away.
Have your spouse whine about how you're always on
deployment.
Whenever you're bored, get drunk. Be bored often.
Study the owner's manual for all household
appliances. Routinely take an appliance apart, clean it and put it back
together.
Start a project, any project. Have somebody continually stop by and make
stupid suggestions to make the job "easier". Say "yes sir" and do it the
way
they told you to do it. After they leave, go back to
doing it the right way.
Repaint your vehicle every month, whether it needs it
or not.
Move every two years. Whether you want to or not.
When you get to a place you really hate, stay there for fifteen years.
> Replace all your appliances and furniture with those
which are outdated, in need of constant repair or dangerous to use. Do
more
with them than you would if they were new.
If you have nothing to do, clean something that doesn't need cleaning.
PEACEKEEPING
Surround yourself with people who smoke like
chimneys, drink like fish, bitch/whine/complain about EVERYTHING, and use
foul
language that would make a teamster blush.
Have two neighbours start a fight. Get in between them and have them hit
you
instead of each other.
After the neighbours have hit you several times have them calm down. Have
another, much larger person, pretend to be your ally and piss the
neighbours
off again (by pretending to bomb their houses and basically bully them
around) and start them fighting. Repeat the above.
Ask the "feuding" neighbours to throw rocks at you and call you names
every
time they see you, because of what the larger person did to their homes.
Bring the neighbours medical supplies, food and blankets. Have them slam
the
door in your face without saying thank you, because the much larger
person
bombed their houses. Get some of them to say thank you, have the much
larger
person tell you to never bring them that stuff again.
TRAINING ENVIRONMENT
Surround yourself with people who smoke like chimneys, drink like fish,
bitch/whine/complain about EVERYTHING, and use foul language that would
make
a teamster blush.
Run. Run a lot. Once in the morning, once at noon and once before supper.
Run at least five kilometers each time, singing inane songs and
pretending
you really want to do this.
Stand to attention in a parking lot in the hot sun for five hours, or
until
you pass out and fall face first into the asphalt.
Have somebody yell at you the entire time. Have this same person nitpick
at you
incessantly and then fine you $50.00 and confine you to your room for a
week, coming out only to go to the bathroom, shower, or eat.
Have somebody yell at you every time you're stupid enough go outside
without
a hat on, slouch, or put your hands in your pockets.
Cut your hair weekly, making it shorter each time, until you look bald or
look like you lost a fight with a demented sheep sheerer.
Give yourself twenty minutes less than you need for lunch. Eat so fast
you
don't taste the food.
Buy a gas mask and wear it for two hours every day.
Run around the yard, while you're wearing it. Do push-ups in it until you
pass out. Fill the mask with pepper spray and recite your Tax File Number
BACKWARDS,
have somebody yell, "Wrong. Do it again!" and repeat this process four
times
before removing the mask and puking your guts out.
Clean and shine everything to perfection. Have somebody yell at you and
call
you a filthy pig. Pretend to clean and shine everything to perfection
again
changing nothing), have the same person inspect it and say "good
turnout".
INTERACTION WITH CIVILIANS
Leave the people behind who smoke like chimneys, drink like fish,
bitch/whine/complain about > > EVERYTHING, and use foul language that
would make a teamster blush.
When around civilians ensure to smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish,
bitch/whine/complain > about EVERYTHING, and use foul language that would
make a teamster blush.
Whenever civilians say or do anything stupid (it happens a lot) shake
your head and mutter in > your most contemptuous/condescending voice;
"fuckin' civvies".
Use copious amounts of acronyms, NEVER explain them.
When asked to explain shake your head and mutter in your most
contemptuous/condescending
voice; "fuckin' civvies".
Have other people say stupid things to you like: "you don't pay taxes, do
you?",
"you get free housing", "man, you must get paid a lot".
Shake your head and mutter in your most contemptuous/condescending voice;
"fuckin'civvies".
Demand that everyone never thank you for anything you
do for them, look at you in a condescending manner and call you names
like "G.I. Joe", and
"soldier boy". Shake your head and mutter in your most
contemptuous/condescending voice; >>> > "fuckin' civvies".
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