"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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I notice that they're calling him "sir" these days. That used to get
you 20 push-ups in the U.S. Army.

Where did you get *that* from?

What, the push-ups?

No, the insane idea that first sergeants are being routinely called "sir".

Brooks


Basic training in Company G, 272nd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry
Division, Fort Dix, NJ, January 1956.



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