Thread: An Army solution to travel-aftershave.

Hell, my team leader made us camo our teeth. He said is was so we would know when to reapply camo to our faces. When we did not feel it on our teeth, we had to reapply on of faces, and again on out teeth. I think he just got his jollies looking at us with our teeth all blacked out. My life in force recon......funny

Originally Posted by Bricelyn

I became so used to dry shaving with a cartridge razor that It no longer bothered me, I got home and found my shaving cream and gave it a shot and couldn't believe how great it felt! Never did use purell. I find it funny that you deemed it a mandatory part of the uniform! In the Corps all we needed on us was an ink stick, paper, an honor courage commitment card, and you CAC card. Shoot I didn't even wear skivies the whole time in country!

Now I can only assume that's a word that has a different meaning hear, because I sure as hell couldn't imagine anyone wearing a woollen jumper/cardigan in the middle of the desert during the day, so would assume that to be fairly obvious! Unless you do mean said woollen item and meant at night time, in which case you just toughed out the cold or spent much of your night time in the fart sack .


Mick

Skivies=drawers or pants or underwear.

If I was down there, then I think growing a beard must be a good idea. Just hope that friendlies don't take you for taliban:-)

Skivies

Purell has become a part of my daily routine now.

I never really used any aftershave. I have some Nivea balm that I tried a few times but never used consistently. I never experienced any benefit. With the purell I notice a difference. It may only be to tighten up my skin a little but at least I notice some benefit.

Originally Posted by Bricelyn

I became so used to dry shaving with a cartridge razor that It no longer bothered me, I got home and found my shaving cream and gave it a shot and couldn't believe how great it felt! Never did use purell. I find it funny that you deemed it a mandatory part of the uniform! In the Corps all we needed on us was an ink stick, paper, an honor courage commitment card, and you CAC card. Shoot I didn't even wear skivies the whole time in country!

Yeah the Army's all about kit. Even when I was with the Silent Professionals, there was always some seemingly superfluous requirement of something you had to have on you. I think in the long run, the purell requirement was carried over after they made it mandatory in initial entry training to keep recruits from getting sick as much. All the guys who joined up then were just used to it and as they either returned from time on the trail or joined regular units, the practice just stuck. I'll say I got a lot more use out of my bottle of purell in Iraq than I did that piece of crap beretta I always had to carry around.

You guys have it good. When I went into the Corps in '81, we used that useless bug repellent in the squirt bottle for AS in the field. That stuff would set your face on fire!

Originally Posted by GeauxLSU

You guys have it good. When I went into the Corps in '81, we used that useless bug repellent in the squirt bottle for AS in the field. That stuff would set your face on fire!

Did you have to wear that BS Bull Dog Cologne upon graduation from Boot? That shit was terrible!