Humor- Recruite Gone AWOL

[OneDayAMarine]

Recruit gone AWOL

As the sun rose over Parris Island, the senior drill instructor realized that one of his recruits had gone AWOL. A search party was dispatched immediately. After a few hours the recruit was discovered hiding in some bushes. He was sent back to the base and promptly escorted to the drill instructor's office. The instructor asked the young recruit, "Why did you go AWOL?"

The recruit replied, "My first day here you issued me a comb, and then proceeded to cut my hair off. The second day you issued me a toothbrush, and sent me to the dentist, who proceeded to pull all my teeth. The third day you issued me a jock strap, and I wasn't about to stick around and find out what would follow that SIR."

[Joseph P Carey]

Two things wrong! Marines don't go AWOL, they are UA! Second, the recruit would not have had the ability to say anything, when brought to the Brig Med!

[BOOGIEMAN44]

JPC, THAT JEST ABOUT SUMS IT UP

[PCWoycik]

thats a great joke i love it

[Mac88]

AWOL-Used by anyone but Navy or Marine Corps Means Absent without leave
UA-used by the Dept. Of the Navy means Unathorised abscence

[outlaw3179]

Its a joke ..just laugh :)

[lprkn]

AWOL - Used to be used by the Navy and Marine Corps

LTFU - Lighten the f*** up!

[Joseph P Carey]

Hell, I knew it was just a joke, I was just being a jerk for the heck of it. It was a tongue-in-cheek remark to cover the last line of what I said about the fellow not being able to speak when caught. I didn't think that anyone would have taken the whole thing that seriously. I guess I was wrong. I apologize.

But, in truth Lprkn, My Dad was in the Corps from 1937 to 1946, and he always knew it to be UA! I went in in 64, and I knew it to be UA, and my Brother went in in 68, and he too knew as UA. A couple of the Nephews and Nieces are in and they call it UA. In all, from personal knowledge anyhow, it has been UA, and not AWOL, since 1937 at the very least. 'Navy speak' is a funny language. Bulkhead, Overhead, Deck, Ladderwell, Head and all the rest took sometime to get used to not saying when I got out.

Actually, I read the joke some years ago in the old 'Laughter in Uniform' section of the Reader's Digest. Do they still have that? I have not seen a Readers Digest in years.

[OLE SARG]

Joseph,
Yes, they still have Reader's Digest as I just renewed my subscription. The "Humor in Uniform" section is still one of the most read parts of the magazine.

SEMPER FI,
OLE SARG

[Joseph P Carey]

Ole Sarg,

Now that I am semi-retired, I have had the time to read the full content books. I think I have read everything that Steghen King has written just for the enjoyment of reading, the later novels are not as good as the originals. I have read Clive Cusslers' Sahara, and of course the obligatory spy novels and war stories and autobiographies and biographies of famous Americans. You have to add the WEB Griffin and Leon Uris novels in the completed pile of books that have fallen to the conquest of my eyes.

It takes me back to the days when the paperback novels would make the tour of the unit, sometimes with all the pages still in tact, but most times, the last couple of pages would always be missing, and you had to make up the ending of the story in your own mind.

[Sticky blue]

We still and always have called it AWOL. We had a guy go AWOL just before leave... he is going to be AWOL for the entire 3 weeks we are off. If he had waited 3 hours and cleaned his room he would have been given his leave pass and a free ticket home; the youth of today.

[Joseph P Carey]

Originally posted by Sticky blue
We still and always have called it AWOL. We had a guy go AWOL just before leave... he is going to be AWOL for the entire 3 weeks we are off. If he had waited 3 hours and cleaned his room he would have been given his leave pass and a free ticket home; the youth of today.

I have seen the same thing in our Marines, Sergeant. The youth just have no idea of time and patience. God! I miss them! Sometimes, it made the whole thing worth it, just for the stories of them and their impatience.

[lprkn]

Maybe I was wrong about the AWOL/UA thing. But I know that in "Battle Cry" by Leon Uris, and "Fields of Fire" by James Webb, it's referred to as AWOL. But, whatever it used to be called, stupid Marines will continue to do it from now until eternity.