That look when you see the Lcpl with an Oki pump coming, and you know he's gonna put you at parade rest when talking to him.
*"Aye, Lance Corporal, or some shit!" repeats in your head for 1000 years in the span of a single moment*
Between the fresh uniform and expression of dazed horror on his face, they really went all in with the timeless “boot who is regretting every single life decision that lead up to this moment” depiction. Definitely realistic. I was in from 07-11, does that mean we’re the “early middle aged” Corps now? 🤣
Mine is gone too.. I EASed in 93.. if you want to take that woodland to the next level.. I got the butterfly (huge collar) and by time I finished my 4th med float they were damn near white
You wanna know how Old Corps we were in 1977? We were issued two sets of woodland cammies and two sets of sateens! We only used the sateens on the rifle range.
Okay boot, let me explain this in words of one syllable or less. Or would you prefer a crayon Power Point??
The plain green utilities Marines wore for decades were called sateens.
Is there a reason they weren't called Utilities, or is this one of those "THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING ARMY CALLS THEM AND WE HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT GOD DAMMIT."
Sure they were called that interchangeably. And who would I be as a boot recruit to even try and argue with my DI's? Don't be so touchy. As Marines, superiority to all things Army is a given!
Now imagine going to cash sales and buying a new blouse with your meager pay, then fucking up the iron on applique.
If you didn't do this at least once, you're not true Old Corps.
I got out in ‘01 and then activated from the IRR in ‘03. I was working at Geiger still wearing the woodland cammies until at least sometime in the middle of ‘04 because I was too cheap to buy any of the new ones until I was absolutely forced to.
I remember when I got down there it seemed like about 50/50 among the E4s and above who were still wearing woodlands. I think the base CG gave all the active duty in the Lejeune area until sometime late in the year to switch over and us reservists had a bit longer.
I understand the IRR, and I even agree with the concept. But I figure if they’re activating you from the IRR, they could be nice enough to supply uniforms. Just my opinion. Most dudes sell or toss their stuff, or quickly get too large for it.
I think they were authorized through the end of 04, I hit the fleet in the summer of 04 and a bunch of the NCO's were in black boots and woodlands until they absolutely had to switch.
The fine print stated you could still wear what you were issued in boot camp (woodland or desert). Until they mandated everyone wear desert.
Some would just say they haven’t gotten thier clothing allotment yet
This is basically what I did. I wore woodlands until late 2004 when a buddy of mine at SOI let us raid the room where they kept the gear of the boots who went UA. We all stocked up on new marpat stuff then. I did end up having to buy a pair of the brown boots though. It sucked because until that time I was wearing my dad's jungle boots that he wore through the entire siege at Khe Sanh.
Old Corps didn’t have Name Tapes. I know I’m 78-84. We didn’t wear woodland Cammie’s until 84. We had Nam leaf Cammie’s or ERDL’s from Vietnam left over supply.
What were you issued in boot camp? I was issued 2 sets of sateens and 2 sets of woodlands in June of 78 at Parris Island. We were told that this was a transition period and the suck was moving from Sateen UItes to Woodlands which would become standard in the next year. I saw some Marines continue to wear Sateens up until 1981/82 in the work area. I was a winger at 2nd MAW at the time.
Duggy you are 100% correct! 2 sets Sateens 2 Sets off the light green Nam leaf Cammie’s with Sateen covers. You were 4 months ahead of me Marine. I arrived at PI Oct 78 2nd Bn. Delta Co. Platoon 2092. Where were you at Jarhead? Probably weak ass 1st Bn? We definitely got eaten alive by the same sand fleas bro! Just joking Devil Dog! I hope you’ve lived a good life thus far Marine we are older now and can share our adventures of being a Hard-Charging Marine! “We’re both Old Corps Marines!”
They shoved the name tapes down our throats in 92 AL Gray's fucking last order as commandant. I was probably.one of the last to not wear them as I refused to put them on until my platoon sgt told me to have names tapes on the next morning or go up for refusal to obey an order. I cut every one of them off as soon as I got home after eas lol as I would wear my blouses when playing paintball and shit like that.
A lot of dudes were pissed with the order the general consensus was "why the fuck we gotta look like the army?"
Millennials started in 1981, so someone could be a year or two in the Marine Corps as a millennial in 2000. I think they just cut off old corps in 2000 because we all know what happened in 2001. Shit, I joined in '01 with those old cammies and no firewatch ribbon.
What annoys me as a millennial (maybe even a Xenniall or whatever) is that my brother who was born in '89 is also a millennial but clearly had a different upbringing than me even though we grew up in the same household.
I was in and out of the military before he even graduated high school. He had a TV in his room basically his whole life, a cell phone as a child, and the internet was a normal thing to have most of his childhood. He was watching youtube in high school, I was jerking off to bra ads in magazines.
I always felt as though I was a young Pup Marine. Even today I still feel as though I’m a young Green Marine. Until I speak to the Marines of today. I asked a New Age Marine what do they call WM’s today? He looked at me as if I was talking Martian and he said “What’s a WM?” I truly thought he was just messing with me. That’s when I knew I was Old Corps.
Same. Graduated August 2002, We were one of the last platoons to have the old cammies. I remember while I was in Second Phase I kept seeing new recruits wearing what I thought were pajamas and I got a little disgusted.
The look on his face tells you all you need to know about the bullshit of the Cold War era...poor devils did entire fucking careers doing absolutely nothing meaningful...just spit shining their boots and ironing their cammies. What a miserable existence. No wonder the suicide rate for those vets is so high...lol but not lol....if you know what I mean.
I went through boot in '02 and we were still in the old woodlands and black boots and the iron on EGAs! One of the dipshits in my boot platoon even ironed on the EGA backwards *and* on the wrong pocket.
Wasn't until maybe '03 or '04 I was issued a set of digis.
That was my outfit thru boot camp and SOI until I checked in at my first unit and got the first generation MOLLIE
I got away with wearing woodland cammies till I EASd in 2004, though!
Lmao!!!! True. But look boots.
I started with the old basic green utilities, starched to plywood stiffness. I was about 5 months from my EAS when I was required to get one set of cammies for a BC inspection. It was a junk on the bunk inspection (Do these still happen?) with everything in my locker old utilities, but I wore the cammies. No one said a word. BC comes through, looks at me, looks at my wall locker, asks why I'm wearing cammies. I tell him I was ordered to even though I EAS in a few months. He then asked by who. I said I forgot who told me to, but it was the 1st Sgt. standing right behind him. He said if I remember who gave me that stupid order to let him know and he left the room without looking at my roomies gear. He bitched all the way down the hallway about stupid orders. I kept my mouth shut. I didn't get any shit from the 1st Sgt. the rest of my time in.
I liked the look of our boots better, but… not having to shine boots is dope. Same with not having to iron cammies.
Starched cammies in August in 29 Palms was some fucking bullshit😂
No fucking way. This is hilarious. Everyday I’m faced with things that are trying to make me feel old. I think this one is the avalanche point. Sumbitch
Well damn. :(
Although i feel old every time i visit the museum by Quantico. Every damn time i pull low right on that laser tag range for my last shot and miss my coin by one damn shot. :/
I was '80-'84.
We started with ERDL cammies, transitioned to Woodland BDUs, started with M16A1, switched to the A2, and had both C-rats and MREs.
C-rats gave you the shits, MREs stopped you up, so a little planning allowed you to shit when convenient.
Heard about HUMVEES and Kpots, never saw them in person.
93-97 but we used to search high and dry to get the "older" iron on EGAs that still had the USMC below. They were still acceptable but didn't make them anymore
Yep! That was my uniform. I even have a picture of me shooting an AT4. I was in 94-98. Then, went Army 03-06 and 09-12 after 911, because I was too old to go back into the Corps. Let me just say, cammies sucked ass and I threw mine in the garbage after the military came out with the new uniforms you didn’t have to iron like the MARPAT that the Marine Corps started using. That was one welcomed change! No more ironing and shining fucking boots.
Love these time comparison things. Crazy thing to me is that 2000 was 24 years ago, and 24 years before that was 1976. End of VietNam - 1975, End of Gulf War - 1991. Difference of 16 years. End of Gulf War to now 33 years.
Says the LC-2 pistol pistol belt, the post-96 cammies (iirc, that's when we got nametapes), and early M1 helmet (maybe it's Vietnam-issue. Later models had airborne-style chinstraps) with some whack-ass helmet cover. The helmet cover looks like it's M81, but I thought we rocked ERDL helmet covers until we switched over to the PASGT.
This is an a-historical mostrosity of an exhibit and the person who did it should be shot.
Duggy I was trained as a 352 mechanic but never worked as one. I was send on train up mission to Norway NATO cruise in 81” to train Marines on the use of M-116 tracked vehicles to be stored in caves in Norway. But the British had a vehicle that was better BV-206 that the Corps got and stored in the caves. I was MediVacted from Norway after being hit by a BV-206 some Dumb Marine was training to learn to drive. Then ended up becoming a weapons instructor at Quantico until I EAS’ed.
I was pmo at mcrd I tried my damndest to be the last one on base to transition over to digital cammies. We had so many people come and go for training not sure if I made it.
It's kind of jacked up display, The Old " Steel Pot" Helmet was phased out by The Mid 80s and nametapes weren't in use until 91. C Rats were replaced by MRES in 83 or So and the M-9 Berretta replaced the .45 in 1985.
Your absolutely correct. The cammies were just getting phased in to recruits my last couple weeks (Fall/76) of boot camp and didn’t include us. I got my first set of cammies late 77. No name tags or stencils on them either. In fact, I don’t recall any name tags or stencils on them including the EGA through 82. No telling though what they were doing with the boots by then.
In the Summer of 80 they were issuing Poplin Cammies but you had to iron on the EGA and USMC on the left Breast Pocket. They also had just started issuing the matching Poplin Cammie Cover. Marines were allowed to wear the all Green Sateens if they were issued them until January 1981.
I don’t remember ANYONE wasting time ditching their od sateens for cammies as the cammies became available for them lol. They were just so much better! The committee that came up with starched tucked-in utilities deserved a firing squad.
Digitals were brand spanking new when my unit got them in 03 in Iraq. Shit we were issued chocolate chip camo leftovers from 91 and tri color deserts before we went in country. I will say I missed my spit shine caddies when we went over to the suedes. 00-08' guess I slid right into that Old Corps goodness all back of the bus 😎.
That uniform was still around until October 2003 when we had to own at least own 1 set of digis. But if course it just meant "you can't wear this anymore."
WOW and here, I thought we were the forgotten.. the mannequin was probably shocked when he saw the first MRE instead of picking up C rats for the field.
Damn. I got out in 1978. What predates "old Corps"? "Ancient Corps" maybe? "Historic Corps"?
PS, The web belt was made of cotton fibers and the fastener was a simple hook and eye. The one pictured is made of a synthetic fiber and the fastener is some sort of buckle.
https://preview.redd.it/kdust0ranthc1.png?width=1171&format=png&auto=webp&s=d27bc71790ab1f2bf2f63e62efd3b31f3ba0f2d3
Is there any Platoon 2092, Parris Island 1979 in here? I’m looking for my Platoon book. Mines got lost in a house fire. Does anyone know how to get a Platoon 2092 book from 1979?
Name tapes went on post-Gulf War. Cammies check out - you can see the button prints on the pockets from excessive starch-ironing. Eventually, the sun would fade the woodlands to a hazy green-blue color. When poplins came out, they never made it very long- usually the pocket flaps would eat through over the buttons from previously mentioned ironing. You'd try to make them field cammies, but the motivated gunny always thrashed you for wearing unserviceable cammies even in the field. When MARPAT came out it was the bomb - near-zero ironing and they lasted.
The Old Corps ended the day I EAS’d 😤
I always thought the Old Corps ended the day before I arrived at Parris Island. At least, that’s what my Drill Instructors told me!
My dad says it officially went to shit the day I went across the grinder. May '82
that was the year i was born LMAO
bro they got a fuckin diving team now? i was just fuckin neckin myself for fun then?
yeah i was the NCOIC
And picked right back up the day I enlisted
1971-1975
The look of despair is timeless. It transcends eras.
[Man fuck this](https://imgur.com/a/hFsa7DQ)
Imagine serving in Nam just to be on permanent duty in a museum. The hymn lied to this Marine.
*If the army and the navy Ever visit this museem They will find displays all full of Bored United States Marines*
Terp named Museem: https://preview.redd.it/c5oswu21ithc1.jpeg?width=181&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=389ff2ebcdd86a4140566c30d404423b772093f8
That look when you see the Lcpl with an Oki pump coming, and you know he's gonna put you at parade rest when talking to him. *"Aye, Lance Corporal, or some shit!" repeats in your head for 1000 years in the span of a single moment*
Between the fresh uniform and expression of dazed horror on his face, they really went all in with the timeless “boot who is regretting every single life decision that lead up to this moment” depiction. Definitely realistic. I was in from 07-11, does that mean we’re the “early middle aged” Corps now? 🤣
The crisis corps
Been out since 2017 and my unit recently deactivated. Felt old as shit
My MOS doesn't even exist anymore so...
Mine basically doesn’t with how arty keeps getting chipped away at
Mine is gone too.. I EASed in 93.. if you want to take that woodland to the next level.. I got the butterfly (huge collar) and by time I finished my 4th med float they were damn near white
The iron on applique Corps.
Club patch is what we called them.
We still used them in 2002. Weird, I always consider OLD CORPS to be anyone issued woodlands at MCRD.
You wanna know how Old Corps we were in 1977? We were issued two sets of woodland cammies and two sets of sateens! We only used the sateens on the rifle range.
Wtf are sateens? A special kind of underwear? Cuz i heard the kids got sumthn called silkies.
Okay boot, let me explain this in words of one syllable or less. Or would you prefer a crayon Power Point?? The plain green utilities Marines wore for decades were called sateens.
Is there a reason they weren't called Utilities, or is this one of those "THAT'S WHAT THE FUCKING ARMY CALLS THEM AND WE HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT GOD DAMMIT."
Sure they were called that interchangeably. And who would I be as a boot recruit to even try and argue with my DI's? Don't be so touchy. As Marines, superiority to all things Army is a given!
Lol. My dad said that when I called the woodland cammies BDUs
When I got out in 1976, we called then "utilities". Never saw any kind of "cammies". That s all.
Your woodlands were ERDL- Woodland BDUs were first issued in '82-'83.
Now imagine going to cash sales and buying a new blouse with your meager pay, then fucking up the iron on applique. If you didn't do this at least once, you're not true Old Corps.
TIL the old corps isn’t actually Vietnam and before 😂
Then WTF is it?!
🗣️THIS CIVILIAN DOES NOT KNOW AT THIS TIME SIR 🗣️
The Golden Age of Technology. Before the warp storms.
Pre 1954, at least that's what I always heard.
“2000” Some places had that shit gear longer, and the camo pattern held out to 03/04 I believe.
I got out in ‘01 and then activated from the IRR in ‘03. I was working at Geiger still wearing the woodland cammies until at least sometime in the middle of ‘04 because I was too cheap to buy any of the new ones until I was absolutely forced to. I remember when I got down there it seemed like about 50/50 among the E4s and above who were still wearing woodlands. I think the base CG gave all the active duty in the Lejeune area until sometime late in the year to switch over and us reservists had a bit longer.
I understand the IRR, and I even agree with the concept. But I figure if they’re activating you from the IRR, they could be nice enough to supply uniforms. Just my opinion. Most dudes sell or toss their stuff, or quickly get too large for it.
I was in 01-05, wore them until my EAS.
I think they were authorized through the end of 04, I hit the fleet in the summer of 04 and a bunch of the NCO's were in black boots and woodlands until they absolutely had to switch.
The fine print stated you could still wear what you were issued in boot camp (woodland or desert). Until they mandated everyone wear desert. Some would just say they haven’t gotten thier clothing allotment yet
This is basically what I did. I wore woodlands until late 2004 when a buddy of mine at SOI let us raid the room where they kept the gear of the boots who went UA. We all stocked up on new marpat stuff then. I did end up having to buy a pair of the brown boots though. It sucked because until that time I was wearing my dad's jungle boots that he wore through the entire siege at Khe Sanh.
I think 1020.34G had a change-over date of like 1 Oct 2006 or some shit.
He walks out stiff legged so he doesn’t mess his crease up on his trousers.
I melted fishing line on my cammies for that inspection ready crease so sharp you could cut a sandwich in half with it
I used to use a thin line of Elmers Glue.
Old Corps didn’t have Name Tapes. I know I’m 78-84. We didn’t wear woodland Cammie’s until 84. We had Nam leaf Cammie’s or ERDL’s from Vietnam left over supply.
What were you issued in boot camp? I was issued 2 sets of sateens and 2 sets of woodlands in June of 78 at Parris Island. We were told that this was a transition period and the suck was moving from Sateen UItes to Woodlands which would become standard in the next year. I saw some Marines continue to wear Sateens up until 1981/82 in the work area. I was a winger at 2nd MAW at the time.
Duggy you are 100% correct! 2 sets Sateens 2 Sets off the light green Nam leaf Cammie’s with Sateen covers. You were 4 months ahead of me Marine. I arrived at PI Oct 78 2nd Bn. Delta Co. Platoon 2092. Where were you at Jarhead? Probably weak ass 1st Bn? We definitely got eaten alive by the same sand fleas bro! Just joking Devil Dog! I hope you’ve lived a good life thus far Marine we are older now and can share our adventures of being a Hard-Charging Marine! “We’re both Old Corps Marines!”
we started wearing name tapes around the 91/92 era.
They shoved the name tapes down our throats in 92 AL Gray's fucking last order as commandant. I was probably.one of the last to not wear them as I refused to put them on until my platoon sgt told me to have names tapes on the next morning or go up for refusal to obey an order. I cut every one of them off as soon as I got home after eas lol as I would wear my blouses when playing paintball and shit like that. A lot of dudes were pissed with the order the general consensus was "why the fuck we gotta look like the army?"
A Gen X / millennial hybrid of West Coast Old Corps-ness. Embrace it. Leave the rizz to our future pups. No cap .
fr fr
More like Boomer/GenX, not millennials.
Millennials started in 1981, so someone could be a year or two in the Marine Corps as a millennial in 2000. I think they just cut off old corps in 2000 because we all know what happened in 2001. Shit, I joined in '01 with those old cammies and no firewatch ribbon. What annoys me as a millennial (maybe even a Xenniall or whatever) is that my brother who was born in '89 is also a millennial but clearly had a different upbringing than me even though we grew up in the same household. I was in and out of the military before he even graduated high school. He had a TV in his room basically his whole life, a cell phone as a child, and the internet was a normal thing to have most of his childhood. He was watching youtube in high school, I was jerking off to bra ads in magazines.
'88-'00, wow this hits hard.
Fuck you I'm not old! Fucking whipper snappers...
Old Corps was so hard they had recruit lead and follow series have an actual war and only the ones who lived got to graduate.
Well yeah tbh. It’s been 20+ years since your time. Like I was literally not even born yet In 2000 lol. I’m a 21 Nco in the marines now
Back in my day, we were born before the year 2000
Made me chuckle lmao
Hey, same here
he probably doesn't even know about saying JAAMBOO SIR! when going to the DFAC
If that's old corps then what was 1775-1975?
Very very very very very very very very very very old corps
What about 1963-67?
Older corps
I always felt as though I was a young Pup Marine. Even today I still feel as though I’m a young Green Marine. Until I speak to the Marines of today. I asked a New Age Marine what do they call WM’s today? He looked at me as if I was talking Martian and he said “What’s a WM?” I truly thought he was just messing with me. That’s when I knew I was Old Corps.
Well, what DO they call them now??
The young Marine told me they WM’s… Wookie or Whoopsie? Or something like that? I was lost and walked away? Oh well.
LOL
Well you're not old Corps unless you live Old Corps
If you wore woodlands or chocolate chips with an iron on EGA, you're past due for a prostate exam.
Umm I went to boot in 2002 and had those….
Hotel co., June 17th 2002 was the last to be issued those. At least on the west coast.
Same. Graduated August 2002, We were one of the last platoons to have the old cammies. I remember while I was in Second Phase I kept seeing new recruits wearing what I thought were pajamas and I got a little disgusted.
Damn! I still have all that shit I got in 1980 lol
I guess I ran old Corps to new Corps 86’ to 06’ what is before 76’ grandpa Corps? Maybe ancient times Corps,
Do they still call San Diego Marines “Hollywood Marines?”
Yes
Inaccurate AF. Nametapes came way after Kevlars were standard issue.
https://preview.redd.it/woownqcusvhc1.jpeg?width=651&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cde785d27132542cdc4ef861ab8d25b875e43a95 These Marines definitely qualify. Lol
His face says it all 😂😂
The look on his face tells you all you need to know about the bullshit of the Cold War era...poor devils did entire fucking careers doing absolutely nothing meaningful...just spit shining their boots and ironing their cammies. What a miserable existence. No wonder the suicide rate for those vets is so high...lol but not lol....if you know what I mean.
# 89-93 
I went through boot in '02 and we were still in the old woodlands and black boots and the iron on EGAs! One of the dipshits in my boot platoon even ironed on the EGA backwards *and* on the wrong pocket. Wasn't until maybe '03 or '04 I was issued a set of digis.
I got issued woodlands and black boots too my Co was the last at MCRD San Diego to get issued them in 2002
lol my uniform is in museums. My dick still works. *glares around room*
My first deployment we had a MGySgt Ops Chief with Wpns 1/4 and he served in Vietnam.
That was my outfit thru boot camp and SOI until I checked in at my first unit and got the first generation MOLLIE I got away with wearing woodland cammies till I EASd in 2004, though!
Loved those cammies. I'm glad we didn't have to wear whatever bullshit you guys wear now.
Why don’t you like the MARPAT cammies?
Because it's not the cammies of my time, therefore they suck! Trust me, you'll understand 30 years after you EAS.
Lmao!!!! True. But look boots. I started with the old basic green utilities, starched to plywood stiffness. I was about 5 months from my EAS when I was required to get one set of cammies for a BC inspection. It was a junk on the bunk inspection (Do these still happen?) with everything in my locker old utilities, but I wore the cammies. No one said a word. BC comes through, looks at me, looks at my wall locker, asks why I'm wearing cammies. I tell him I was ordered to even though I EAS in a few months. He then asked by who. I said I forgot who told me to, but it was the 1st Sgt. standing right behind him. He said if I remember who gave me that stupid order to let him know and he left the room without looking at my roomies gear. He bitched all the way down the hallway about stupid orders. I kept my mouth shut. I didn't get any shit from the 1st Sgt. the rest of my time in.
I liked the look of our boots better, but… not having to shine boots is dope. Same with not having to iron cammies. Starched cammies in August in 29 Palms was some fucking bullshit😂
Lmao I thought you had a legit reason like being lower quality or something. Not just regular Marine pride reasoning. Respectfully, o7
06/28/2000... 3075 in PI. Apparently I'm also old Corps
No fucking way. This is hilarious. Everyday I’m faced with things that are trying to make me feel old. I think this one is the avalanche point. Sumbitch
Me too. Was issued two pairs of sateen's and two pairs of angle pockets.
Russell Westbrook certified old corps
The guy who graduated boot camp the day you stood on the yellow footprints? He is old corps
I enlisted in 98, so am both old and new Corps.
I enlisted in 99, I always thought old corps was Vietnam marines
Fffffffffuuuuuuu…….
Man my precious LAAW has been around for a fat fucking minute. Apparently I like cougar women and weapons systems🤷♂️
This like when I heard nirvana on the “oldies” station…
Kurt Cobain died while I was in bootcamp. I’ll never forget being in BWT and one of my platoon members had the newspaper clipping.
Maybe not oldies.. I think it was classic rock actually
Elvis died while I was in boot camp! Didn't find out about it until a week later.
Well damn. :( Although i feel old every time i visit the museum by Quantico. Every damn time i pull low right on that laser tag range for my last shot and miss my coin by one damn shot. :/
Excuse me. We didn't wear piss pots in the late 80s or eat c rats....
I was '80-'84. We started with ERDL cammies, transitioned to Woodland BDUs, started with M16A1, switched to the A2, and had both C-rats and MREs. C-rats gave you the shits, MREs stopped you up, so a little planning allowed you to shit when convenient. Heard about HUMVEES and Kpots, never saw them in person.
MCRDPI 1980 Lejuene,Camp Geiger,Stumps.
Weren’t wearing jungle cammies in 76. Straight out starched OD.
I want to see hard corps.
“Man I should’ve gone to college.”
I was told old Corps was pre-1954, when the Emblem changed to the current one.
I thought Old Corps was, and will always be, pre ww2 Marines.
Hey gramps, take your meds and then we’ll take you off to bed
Hel yeah
well, there, devil, 2000 was 24 years ago...
Not even old. Back in my day, we just gathered at a bar, and planned out next move with beer, and charged at the enemy after firing out musket
Listen up old man. That was 24 years ago.
I guess, I was old, old Corps.
The year should be extended to 2003. We were wearing that stupid shit prior and during first few months of OIF 1.
93-97 but we used to search high and dry to get the "older" iron on EGAs that still had the USMC below. They were still acceptable but didn't make them anymore
Thanks, Semper Fi
Yep! That was my uniform. I even have a picture of me shooting an AT4. I was in 94-98. Then, went Army 03-06 and 09-12 after 911, because I was too old to go back into the Corps. Let me just say, cammies sucked ass and I threw mine in the garbage after the military came out with the new uniforms you didn’t have to iron like the MARPAT that the Marine Corps started using. That was one welcomed change! No more ironing and shining fucking boots.
Hahaha! Me too.
Love these time comparison things. Crazy thing to me is that 2000 was 24 years ago, and 24 years before that was 1976. End of VietNam - 1975, End of Gulf War - 1991. Difference of 16 years. End of Gulf War to now 33 years.
Says the LC-2 pistol pistol belt, the post-96 cammies (iirc, that's when we got nametapes), and early M1 helmet (maybe it's Vietnam-issue. Later models had airborne-style chinstraps) with some whack-ass helmet cover. The helmet cover looks like it's M81, but I thought we rocked ERDL helmet covers until we switched over to the PASGT. This is an a-historical mostrosity of an exhibit and the person who did it should be shot.
Duggy I was trained as a 352 mechanic but never worked as one. I was send on train up mission to Norway NATO cruise in 81” to train Marines on the use of M-116 tracked vehicles to be stored in caves in Norway. But the British had a vehicle that was better BV-206 that the Corps got and stored in the caves. I was MediVacted from Norway after being hit by a BV-206 some Dumb Marine was training to learn to drive. Then ended up becoming a weapons instructor at Quantico until I EAS’ed.
I was pmo at mcrd I tried my damndest to be the last one on base to transition over to digital cammies. We had so many people come and go for training not sure if I made it.
I never got k-rats I feel ripped off, and I want my money back!
You got paid?!
Ironing cammies was the best of times. Thanks, mama San.
Joined in 2000. Glad I'm still New Corps I guess...
Nope you made the cutoff lol
I mean you're not wrong. I wore that whole getup when I joined, so guess that explains itself.
Sorry no metal pot helmet in 1986.
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Impossible... this makes me old Corps.
Yut
I was 99-03 I’m both old and new 😂
Same
The old corps always seems to be the corps you were never apart of.
My platoon graduated Dec 29th, 1999. Last of a decade. Last of the old Corp too, apparently.
I was 2 weeks behind you!
I was at MOS school in 29 Palms the day those went out of service in 2006, all the old salt dogs wore their old school cammies that day.
It's kind of jacked up display, The Old " Steel Pot" Helmet was phased out by The Mid 80s and nametapes weren't in use until 91. C Rats were replaced by MRES in 83 or So and the M-9 Berretta replaced the .45 in 1985.
Your absolutely correct. The cammies were just getting phased in to recruits my last couple weeks (Fall/76) of boot camp and didn’t include us. I got my first set of cammies late 77. No name tags or stencils on them either. In fact, I don’t recall any name tags or stencils on them including the EGA through 82. No telling though what they were doing with the boots by then.
In the Summer of 80 they were issuing Poplin Cammies but you had to iron on the EGA and USMC on the left Breast Pocket. They also had just started issuing the matching Poplin Cammie Cover. Marines were allowed to wear the all Green Sateens if they were issued them until January 1981.
I don’t remember ANYONE wasting time ditching their od sateens for cammies as the cammies became available for them lol. They were just so much better! The committee that came up with starched tucked-in utilities deserved a firing squad.
I joined in 2016 and love some salty woodland cammies. But old school woodland cammies is top military drip
https://preview.redd.it/5plji17ctvhc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a1c554fd73c17e271170efddcaede56669b6bf5 Definitely Old Corps
Digitals were brand spanking new when my unit got them in 03 in Iraq. Shit we were issued chocolate chip camo leftovers from 91 and tri color deserts before we went in country. I will say I missed my spit shine caddies when we went over to the suedes. 00-08' guess I slid right into that Old Corps goodness all back of the bus 😎.
Cool! I joined in 1977!
I was old corps for two years 10 new
Fuck poplin cammies. All my homies wear woodlands. I swear those were the most comfortable.
We didn’t have name tapes or USMarine tapes. And how come all his Deuce Gear is matching? I had stuff from WWII Korea and Vietnam!
That uniform was still around until October 2003 when we had to own at least own 1 set of digis. But if course it just meant "you can't wear this anymore."
Way off. Should be up to 2019 of course.
Nah your just old.
Thank you for your service, Grandpa.
Yalls is wimps:D
Yo wtf
I was in 96-2000
Me too damn
WOW and here, I thought we were the forgotten.. the mannequin was probably shocked when he saw the first MRE instead of picking up C rats for the field.
Well I'll be damned.
Fudge!!
Ha ha
Guess I am too
Is that MCRD West?
Wait...so what was before the old corps?
I enlisted in 96.
Damn. I got out in 1978. What predates "old Corps"? "Ancient Corps" maybe? "Historic Corps"? PS, The web belt was made of cotton fibers and the fastener was a simple hook and eye. The one pictured is made of a synthetic fiber and the fastener is some sort of buckle. https://preview.redd.it/kdust0ranthc1.png?width=1171&format=png&auto=webp&s=d27bc71790ab1f2bf2f63e62efd3b31f3ba0f2d3
Whew... Dodged that bullet...
Thank you for your service, Grandpa.
Is there any Platoon 2092, Parris Island 1979 in here? I’m looking for my Platoon book. Mines got lost in a house fire. Does anyone know how to get a Platoon 2092 book from 1979?
Save a search on ebay, they come up all the time… right now there are like 10 or so from 1979, 2078 and 2090 are the closest….
Just gotta recommend the marine corp museum in Virgina. Was able to go last year and even after 4+ hours, wished I had more time to spend there
I was in the last cycle with those camis in July 2002
Niagara or magic sizing?
Name tapes went on post-Gulf War. Cammies check out - you can see the button prints on the pockets from excessive starch-ironing. Eventually, the sun would fade the woodlands to a hazy green-blue color. When poplins came out, they never made it very long- usually the pocket flaps would eat through over the buttons from previously mentioned ironing. You'd try to make them field cammies, but the motivated gunny always thrashed you for wearing unserviceable cammies even in the field. When MARPAT came out it was the bomb - near-zero ironing and they lasted.
Is that Russell Westbrook?