Who remembers "raking sand" and "policing/field stripping" cigarette butts?

WE RAKED MUD IT WAS OUR GRASS...........

IN THE MARINE CORPS BACK IN 1969 WHEN WE WOULD GO TO THE SHOWER WE HAD TO FALL OUT IN FORMATION WITH ONLY OUR SKIVIE DRAWERS ON WE TIED OUR SOCKS TO OUR LEGS TO WASH THEM WE HAD OUR TOWELS WRAPPED AROUND OUR NECKS AND WE HAD OUR STEEL BUCKETS WITH OUR RAZORS AND SOAP AND TOOTHBRUSH
WE WOULD MARCH TO THE SHOWER SHACK WE LIVED IN OPEN QUONSET HUTS WITH NO WATER OR LATRINE AFTER WE TOOK A SHOWER SHIT AND SHAVE WE WOULD FILL OUR BUCKETS UP WITH WATER AND WHEN WE RETURNED TO OUR PLATOON AREA WE WOULD THROW THE WATER ON THE DIRT IN THE MORNING WE WOULD RAKE THE MUD INTO GRASS...OOHRAH MY MARINE CORPS BROTHERS ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS MCRD SAN DIEGO 1969!!!

What was really irritating was some of us never smoked, and we were tasked with picking up the mess smokers left behind, there were no disposable gloves then and the worst was having to police used condoms.

MSG Wirts--guess we now know the answer to what a Bear does in the woods?

I had a BN CSM who mandated that non-smokers did not have to pick up butts. Instead, he required all known smokers to be chosen for that.

Now THAT is what you call justice SSG Tim Everett!

Yes! CW5 Montgomery--Ye Olde Wooden WWII Barracks...spent far too much time in those, even at FORSCOM until the War on Wood got rid of most!

Let's not forget painting the rocks lining the walkway up to the barracks.

And am I antedating myself by mentioning the sheer joy of learning how to use a sling blade to cut the grass?

CW5 Montgomery...oh yes, under the barracks. The DI's would shoot their cig butts under it to ensure we raked. Jake the Snake hung out under the barracks so we rigged two rake handles together with duct tape to avoid crawling in there.

I was on police Call at Camp San Louis Obispo, the highlights of this camp were 2 WWII Japanese Tanks that were known for catching fire very easily. Those were the Trophies flanking the entrance, the wooden hutments looked like Monopoly houses slept 4 had 5 windows 1 door an oil heater, and a single socket suspended from thre ceiling, communal latrines one for every twenty hutments, The Classrooms were larger and off the ground allowing for a crawl space. The new post commander decided that the students should police under the classrooms. We found steel can black label AJAX beer cans. I don't rember seeing those even as a child!!!