You might be in the Army if

1. You think beer is one of the four basic food groups.

2. You pronounce "sergeant" like "sarn't" or "sar"

3. You have a difficult time coming up with sentences you have not previously heard someone else utter.

4. You think your whiny complaints are both new and insightful.

5. Your monthly paycheck is smaller than the average welfare payment.

6. Your life is lived only in the present with no thought of the future (kind of like children, dogs, and paramecium.)

7. You think marriage is a part-time job and adultery a tag-team sport.

8. You spend half of your day sitting on your bum waiting for:
-orders
-supplies and/or equipment
-other inconsiderate people

9. Your high-tech equipment looks like it was used against Mussolini.

10. You have nothing better to do than to gossip about and backstab your fellow soldiers.

11. You can wax and buff like a veteran janitor.

12. You were a:
-juvenile delinquent
-hairdresser (females only)
-college screw up
-small towner from Hicksville, USA
-Marine reject

13. You can't spell or read aloud.

14. You use acronyms in a social setting.

15. Your average meal looks like it came out of the north end of a south-bound moose.

16. The thought of buying a new pair of boots makes you perspire in excitement.

17. You are able to say things like, "We must tactically maneuver these HMMWV's to the north side of the motor vehicle holding area at 0800 hours" with a straight face.

18. You compulsively walk in step with your companions.

19. You don't own any blue ink pens.

20. You think Beavis and Butthead are the funniest thing on television.

21. You give your last four before ordering your Big Mac.

22. You know every tattoo artist within a 20 mile radius by his or her first name.

23. The sight of a nifty drawing makes you itch to call the above.

24. You look at an approaching individual's collar or cap before you even glance at their face.

25. You are familiar with every product Kiwi makes.

26. You think "Hooah" might just be a real word.

27. Your boss says things like,"You will be there and have fun. That's an order."

28. You dream in OD Green.

29. You climb out of your couch and salute when they play the National Anthem on TV.

30. You spend half of your time feeling superior to civilians and the other half wishing you were one of them.

31. The first words you learn in a foreign country are all variations on "beer" and "alcohol".

32. All of your medical ills are solved with Motrin or Penicillin.

33. The word "Gas" makes you reach for a mask instead of a Mylanta.

34. It is faster to note the parts of your "company car" that DON'T leak than it is to count the parts that DO.

35. There is more starch on your uniform than there is in your diet.

36. You have to restrain yourself from spraying Niagara on your Fruit of the Looms.

37. You cried when Mom called and told you that she threw away all your old GI Joe figures and comics.

38. You were the product of a dysfunctional family that YOU thought was perfectly normal.

39. It is nearly impossible for you to cheat on your income tax return.

40. You have discovered that life can be narrowed down to three basic needs:
-Sleep
-Food
-Excretion

41. You are required by a federal regulation to pull your wool socks all the way up to your armpits.

42. You must wait six months and fill out 5 separate forms to get toilet paper for your bathroom.

43. You suspect that your uniform and boots could probably stand at attention without you in them.

44. Your skull retains the shape of your BDU cap even after you've taken your headgear off.

45. You must wait 2 months for a bonus to show up on your paycheck, but only 2 hours for a deduction to be taken.

46. You spend an irrational amount of time wondering what everyone is saying about you when you leave the room.

47. Your spare tire sits around your waistline, and not in your trunk.

48. All of your paperwork must pass through about 10 middlemen, each one more anal retentive, absent-minded and obstructive than the next.

49. You give your kids counseling statements for failing to clean their rooms.

50. You know that "guidon" refers to a unit's flag, not an underarm deodorant.

51. You turn on your headlights during the day and shut them off at night.

52. The troops at Valley Forge probably had better tents than you.

53. MREs are no longer interesting innovations, but evil little instruments of torture to be avoided at all costs.

54. You know what "Butterbar" means and revel in using it

55. You're mental prowess is determined by your ability to walk and sing at the same time

56. You can build your own satellite out of nothing more than
-1 Roll of hundred mile an hour tape
-2 garbage bags
-1 box of paper clips
-1 tent pole

57. "Efficient" means using 10 soldiers to put up one wall map.

58. You speak of the Air Force with equal parts envy and disdain.

59. You still try to find ingenious ways to get to your email while living in a leaky tent in the middle of a forest.

60. You actually succeed in accomplishing the above.

61. You actually had to PAY someone to give you that Kojack hairdo at basic training.

62. Everything you say is a potential EO complaint.

63. A Burger King value meal is a gourmet treat.

64. Promotions leave you with a bleeding forehead and collarbone.

65. You can refuse a drug test, but will be legally punished for doing so.

66. You can get kicked out of an oral interview/exam (ie board) for walking in the wrong way.

67. You are 35 years old and still don't have a credit card.

68. You learn you are deploying to Saudi from CNN two days before you hear it from your chain of command.

69. You praise and bless the Port-a-Potty man regularly.

70. You look like a walking, talking, camouflage garbage bag on rainy days.

71. You are nicknamed things like "Chock Block", "Small Round", "Pogy Bait", "Radar", "Highspeed"

72. Your vehicle looks dirtier after you've washed it than it did before you started

73. You get stuff like "Walk the line" and "Stay Alert, Stay Alive" when playing Pictionary with your Army buddies

74. You think camouflage works in urban settings.

75. It takes 9 hours to get TO the site of your field exercise, but only 2 hours to make it BACK.

76. The thought of your colleagues armed with live rounds fills you with equal amounts of fear and panic.

77. You could not tell the difference between Communism and your daily life when you looked up the word in your copy of Webster's Illustrated Dictionary for Young Readers.

78. Your chain of command arranges to televise the Super Bowl via satellite in the field--in order to avoid mass rioting.

79. A sudden increase in your unit's budget makes you wonder if you should look into extra life insurance.

80. You are required to obey the orders of a scrubby kid half your age who only wears BDUs now because his/her parents didn't want to pay for his/her college education.

81. You tie yourself into grammatical knots when you try to engage in intellectual debate with others.

82. You can admit to using any of the following words/phrases within the past month:
-"hand-carry"
-"re-up"
-"AR-XXX"
-"Hooah?!"
-"PMCS"
-"Sarn't"
-"squared away"
-"#*(@&! up!" (Fill in the expletive)
-"double-time"
-"mission"

83. Your S-3 is TOO in love with Microsoft Power Point presentations--not to mention their own voices.

84. You are permitted to use "deadly force", but prohibited from firing a few "warning shots" while on guard duty.

85. Your daily cologne is known as "Diesel--For the Soldier in All of Us"

86. Your living conditions in the field are better than the ones you put up with in the rear.

87. The entire cast of "ER" couldn't make your (overstarched) summer uniform "breathe".

88. You know that the "H" in the 7 Army Values really stands for "Hurry up and wait."

89. You know what the acronym "ATFU" means. ("Ate The #@&# Up")

90. All of your off-duty clothing has Nike, Tommy Hilfiger, FUBU, or JNCO embroidered, stencilled, or otherwise emblazoned upon it.

91. (Males) You *know* that the female foreign nationals that hang around the barracks at your overseas duty station are only after an ID card, but you continue to chase them anyway.

92. (Females) You are positively catty towards every new female that arrives in your unit if she is:
-Single
-Under the age of 40
-More attractive than you are
-Even slightly talented
-Not overtly lesbian

93. (Males) Most *American* women living close enough to military installations to recognize a servicemember when they see one would rather give their phone numbers to a migrant farm worker than to you.

94. You wish they still served beer during lunch in the mess hall.

95. Your kids put hospital corners on their Barbie doll bunks.

96. A squeeze pouch of MRE Jalepeno Cheese Spread is your idea of heaven.

97. When relating the dialogue of an argument to your buddies, you are tempted to start it off with, "And I replied with a whole lot of anger..."

98. You have polypro or Gortex everything.

99. You brag about being on Percoset.

100. Your promotion prospects hinge entirely on your ability to:
-Run
-Shoot at a sheet of paper
-Answer a slew of nitpicky questions regarding some
of the most boring topics known to man
-Send your clothes to a dry cleaner

101. The day after payday you realize you've spent half of your earnings on "champagne" for a woman who speaks broken english and pretends to be interested in your war stories....

102. Instead of a gold chain around your neck, you've got a stainless steel one threaded through a P38.

103. Your street addresses have been Infantry Blvd, Howitzer Lane and Helmet Drive.

104. Your wife responds to "hooah" and understands what it means regardless of the context you present it in.

105. When in a strange place and needing a restroom, you ask where the latrine is.

106. When you go camping, you first check for possible avenues of approach and good fields of fire before setting up your tent.

107. You ridicule other campers for setting up downwind and down slope of the latrine.

108. You're the only one that doesn't complain about having to stand and eat at the same time at parties.

109. When you're stopped by police for speeding, you give the excuse that you've just returned from Germany where there are no speed limits.

110. You're always conscious of your per diem spending limit when in a nightclub on TDY.

111. You've ever used your poncho-liner as a bedspread.

112. You have a bottle of Tabasco sauce ready for every meal.

113. You still have an urge to line up your shoes under your bed.

114. Either you or your spouse have a least one pair of camouflage underwear.

115. You've ever answered the phone at home like the CQ.

116. The only time you and the wife eat without the kids is at the unit "dining out".

117. You always back into parking spaces.

118. You have to lookup your Parents phone number, but can dial the CQ, SDNCO, company, battalion and brigade with no problem at all.

119. Each page of your vacation atlas has two routes marked.

120. Your favorite author is Harold Coyle, Mike Malone, or Tom Clancy.

121. When your kids are too noisy, you announce "at ease!"

122. Your leave always occurs during the last week of September.

123. You keep a box of MREs at home and in the trunk of your car in case of emergencies.

124. When talking to relatives by phone, you end the conversation with "out here."

125. You refer to your spouse as "Household 6" or CINC House."

126. You've seen Patton enough times to memorize his speech.

127. Fox News is your favorite TV channel.

128. You call the Post Locator instead of Information to find your friends

129. You take the family camping with no tent or sleeping bags.

130. Your kids can speak three languages by age eight.
The only suit you own is your Class A uniform.

131. You carry your pager to the shower.

132. Your vehicle is registered on post and in two different states.

133. You convince your wife that all ten of your guns are necessary for home protection.

134. You have more money invested in TA-50 than in your car.

135. You tell your kids to go to bed at 2100 and they try to explain that its only nine o'clock.

136. The allotment column of your LES has more entries than the entitlement column.

137. No one understands the stories you tell because of all the acronyms.

138. You can explain the Gettysburg battlefield better than directions to your house.

139. Your kids know the words to "she wore a yellow ribbon."

140. Your two-year old calls everyone in BDUs "daddy".

141. The phone book lists your rank instead of Mr.

142. Your spouse hasn't unpacked the good china for twenty years.

143. Your monthly BAS goes to the mess hall.

144. You ruin the movie for everyone around you by pointing out the unrealistic military scenes.

146. You live on post so you can hear reveille every morning.

147. Your family calls you "Sir."

148. All your jokes begin with "there was this soldier, a marine and an airman..."

149. When the waiter asks if your food was alright, you respond with "hooah"

150. You are able to call some one by only half of their name.

151. You think that drinking water and rubbing dirt on it is a medical remidy.

152. You understood and related to the above list

lol, that's some funny but true stuff.

so true...so true.... LOL

144. You ruin the movie for everyone around you by pointing out the unrealistic military scenes.

85. Your daily cologne is known as "Diesel--For the Soldier in All of Us"

68. You learn you are deploying to Saudi from CNN two days before you hear it from your chain of command.

45. You must wait 2 months for a bonus to show up on your paycheck, but only 2 hours for a deduction to be taken.

32. All of your medical ills are solved with Motrin or Penicillin.

LMAO!!! This is so true!!

Anytime I still see anything brass, I want to polish it!

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Very true even though I have been out for 6 years!

dang good list... glad to have an updated one...

Half of these are my husband!!! LOL

most of those are me and my grandfather.

Greetings:

I noticed "Marine Reject" on that list!

Believe it, or not, that's EXACTLY what happened to me!

Because of some traumatic events in my youth, my draft board classified me as "IV-F" (i.e., "unfit for military service").

Still, I tried to join the United States Marine Corps, for I wanted that dress blue uniform to impress girls (and don't we all?).

I wrote a letter to the President of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, explaining that other guys were burning their draft cards, fleeing to Canada, or deserting the military.

So, I was reclassified "I-A" (i.e., "fit for military service").

I tried again to enlist in the United States Marine Corps.

I almost made it.

I passed all the tests, and was told I'd be assigned to Marine Aviation.

But, thirty minutes before I was to be sworn in, they said no.

Boy, was I devastated!

The Navy and the Air Force both had long waiting lists, requiring many months.

That's because everybody wanted to be in the Navy or the Air Force, and nobody wanted to be in the United States Army or the United States Marine Corps.

Hey, we were in a war, and soldiers and marines get killed.

Anyway, I finally went to enlist in the United States Army and - - - they said no.

So, I went to the draft board and volunteered to be drafted.

That automatically put me at the head of the list, which meant I was going in the Army, for in a draft, the Army, which is the senior service, always gets the first pick of the draftees.

That's how I became a soldier in the United States Army.

Hey, I'm in pretty good company.

Audie Murphy went into the Army after being rejected by the Marines, and became America's most decorated hero.

By the way, one of my favorite movies is "BABY BLUE MARINE", starring Jan-Michael Vincent.

Have you seen it?

It's about a Marine who washes out of boot camp, and is sent home in disgrace, wearing a Marine issued baby blue suit.

I won't ruin the show for you by telling you any more details.

But, it has a happy ending, similar to my own.

Thank you.

So many of these things are true. Even only being in for 2 years

Another Marine reject here! lol