Drill In structor exist Quanset hut onto platoon street. Platoon all at attention.

Drill instructor: "At Ease"

"Smoking lamp is lit for one cigarette and one cigarette only!" :


Pause for effect: Smokers inching towards getting out thier cigarettes!



Drill Instructor: "AND I AM GOING TO SMOKE IT!!!!!"

S/Sgt Blum couldn't have been the first and only DI to pull this one.

I wonder when they stopped allowing recruits to smoke... anyone know?

Would not know what your talking about must have been back during the Bananna wars .... what is a smoking lamp ...is it a bad electrical connection

I know we had whisky lockers - kept all the MC aftershave , listerine , wisk ... away from the ones having withdrawls DT

We had a SSgt Joker & Smoker DI who on his days of duty meant at least 4 smoke breaks.

He went on leave for a week & we went without any smokes. On his return on a Sunday while bragging of his female conquest our Guide stood up & with all military bearing, informed this DI of our lack of nicotine while he was gone.

He immediately ordered us smokers out for a break & after securing the smokers formation he nicely allowed us to have another, and another, and another. Of the 5, the last 2 by the numbers.

When he pulled us back up into the squadbay, we got to play dizzy izzy as if all those butts weren't enough to make us dizzy.

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MC aftershave

Ooohh, Bulldog. My friend has a bottle of it; the mere smell of the stuff makes me feel like I'm back in recruit training.

We did have a kid who'd stick a rag in a can of Brasso and sleep with it over his face. That can't be good for your grey matter.

Forgot about the Brasso & the Dura-glit

Hate to be the boot to ask, but what's "Dura-Grit"?

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Originally posted by king_voodoo:
Hate to be the boot to ask, but what's "Dura-Grit"?

It's from the pre-anodized brass days.

Dura Glit was made in Germany, consisted of a can full of cotton waste soaked in metal polish. It was a lot less messy than putting Brasso on your fingertip to polish your brass.
Boots don't know Marine history?

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Originally posted by king_voodoo:
I wonder when they stopped allowing recruits to smoke... anyone know?

I hit PI in Mar of 81, got issued a carton of Winstons.Don't know when smoking got can'd

Smoking in 67 altho not in the 1st Phase...Had almost forgot Dura-Grit...was trying to remember the name recently....liked it a lot better than Brasso...Dura-Grit was great for quick polishing jobs...

Thanks for the education!

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Originally posted by dennismorrow:
I hit PI in Mar of 81, got issued a carton of Winstons.Don't know when smoking got can'd

Issued a carton??
We did not get cigarettes till first pay call and boot PX run.
$25.00 pay and you better not buy more than one pack of cigarettes.($0.20) Not that you would need more than 1 pack.
If memory serves there were still 12 or more cigarettes in that 1 pack at graduation.
(if they didn't get broke all to H#LL carrying them around in the blousing of your boot)

As to Dura Glit I remember it well. If memory serves didn't it have just a touch of wax or something in it to help preserve the shine? Hence the Dura. Glit =ing gliter/shine
Lasting Shine


Semper Fi

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Originally posted by Mike_Tex:


S/Sgt Blum couldn't have been the first and only DI to pull this one.

nope, Sgt. B.J. Wright Plt 263.. 1963

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Originally posted by Mike_Tex:
As to Dura Glit I remember it well. If memory serves didn't it have just a touch of wax or something in it to help preserve the shine? Hence the Dura. Glit =ing gliter/shine
Lasting Shine


Semper Fi

There was something in it to preserve the shine, probably just lighter fluid (remember that?) Brasso did a better job, Dura-Glit would remove tarnish but Brasso lightened the brass as well.

Bloused trousers in Boot Camp, not in my day. You bloused your utilities when you became a Marine, screws weren't even allowed to turn them under to swab the messdeck.

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Originally posted by NM11AZ:
Bloused trousers in Boot Camp, not in my day. You bloused your utilities when you became a Marine, screws weren't even allowed to turn them under to swab the messdeck.

1970/71
Bloused then after returning from Rifle Range. It was considered a privledge earned and could be and was unearned if you screwed up bad enough. We still kept the top collar button buttoned till after graduation.
Definition of Bad Enough = Drill Instructors Descretion!!

Semper Fi

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Originally posted by Mike_Tex:

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Originally posted by dennismorrow:
I hit PI in Mar of 81, got issued a carton of Winstons.Don't know when smoking got can'd

Issued a carton??
We did not get cigarettes till first pay call and boot PX run.
$25.00 pay and you better not buy more than one pack of cigarettes.($0.20) Not that you would need more than 1 pack.
If memory serves there were still 12 or more cigarettes in that 1 pack at graduation.
(if they didn't get broke all to H#LL carrying them around in the blousing of your boot)

As to Dura Glit I remember it well. If memory serves didn't it have just a touch of wax or something in it to help preserve the shine? Hence the Dura. Glit =ing gliter/shine
Lasting Shine


Semper Fi

First pay call and boot PX run. For $2.00, bought a carton of York cigarettes because they were non-filter and the 120mm variety. More smoke for when "the smoking lamp" was lit for ooonne cigarette. Still had about six packs at graduation. Also bought a hard plastic carrying case. Carried them in the inside pocket of my utility jacket until we returned from the rifle range and then I stuffed them in the bloused leg of my trousers.

Sang in the choir on Sunday mornings because we went to church unescorted and could smoke as much as we wanted.

This whole string is making me feel old... these youngsters don't know anything about polishing brass and boots or spit-shining shoes. They've never pressed their utilities or blocked their covers. They have hydration packs instead of canteens, LBE instead of flak jacket, cartidge belt, and suspenders... and they don't know what the smoking lamp or the beer garden is for. But I'm still damn proud of them.
Semper Fi,
Cpl Ski

Roger that, remembering the damned little hooks on suspender straps that wouldn't stay hooked to the utility belt but caught on everything else. My 782 gear top pack (pre-ruck, remember top and bottom packs?) had blood stains all over it. If it could only talk...

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Originally posted by NM11AZ:
Roger that, remembering the damned little hooks on suspender straps that wouldn't stay hooked to the utility belt but caught on everything else. My 782 gear top pack (pre-ruck, remember top and bottom packs?) had blood stains all over it. If it could only talk...

Your haversack?

The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.