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Hell, I saw stuff that defied understanding my first week of basic training! Where do you think the term SNAFU came from?If you stay in the Army long enough, you will see things that defy understanding.
Aug. 1971, Fort Dix, NJ.What year? I went in Nov. 1972.
Aug 18, 1969. But SNAFU is far older than that date. I can remember at least one mention when my father was still on active duty (he retired Feb 1962). I think the mention was when we were in Germany , Aug 56 through Aug 59.What year? I went in Nov. 1972.
.Oh I think SNAFU goes back to WWI. Not sure but it has been around for a long, long time. I think SNAFU was the original insult followed by FUBAR. Sort of gives you an idea of the GI's idea of how the military handles things. In some ways they are highly efficient but in others................ well.............. SNAFU.![]()
.Honestly I've seen them before but have no idea what SNAFU stands for, and I didn't know FUBAR until I saw the Memphis Belle movie.
In 1986 at Camp Fuji, Japan, I was assigned to a working party one day with other members of my tank platoon. Top (Master Sergeant for the Company) told us to repaint & re-stencil the Paint/HazMat Locker, which was a small conex box. Repaint accomplished, we broke out the stencils to find that we were one short of a Zero/O stencil…so one of the senior Lance Corporals (E-3) decided to ”modify” the stenciling to “NO SMOKING WITHIN 49.8 FEET.”okay, back to comical stenciling : while with engineers at FLW in the 70's , a couple of us were painting 55gal drums yellow and stenciling "High Water" on them. But the stencil machine was busted and we had to share a manila "put your own damn letters together" set .. It was one "H" short so we did what we could and were to just paint another H on them the next day, since we ran out of time and the OMS (maint shop) gates were about to be locked for the day.. That night a big storm came through and it rained heavy most of the night .. Anyway, apparently some of the guys went out to set up barrels in the middle of the night wherever there was water over the roads.. Late the next morning the CO came into the OMS and yelled , "... younumbskulls! The batallion commander wants to know what the
is Hig Water ??!!!
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