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YOUR
FAMILY MIGHT BE TOO HOOAH IF:
- Your wife's
two favorite shades of lipstick are light green and loam.
- You go
to a barbecue and insist that your family feed in a tactical chow line
at five meter intervals
- Before
you hit the road on vacation you conduct rehearsals, backbriefs, PCI,
and cover your convoy checklist.
- Your children
clear their hand receipt and housing before they go to college.
- Your wife
has more jumps than most LTs in the company.
- Your kids
call the yard their MWR area.
- You require
your mechanic to replace the sandbags in your floorboard as a part of
a tune-up.
- Your station
wagon is equipped with blackout lights, OVE, OVM, and has to be properly
dispatched.
- Your kids
call their mother "Household 6."
- Your kids
use the "F" word at least five times in every sentence.
- Your kids
volunteer to pull air guard on the school bus.
- Your doorbell
sounds off with the current challenge and password.
- Your house
has sector sketches posted by every window.
- You give
the command "Fix Bayonets" at Thanksgiving Dinner.
- Your kids
show their meal cards at the kitchen door, except the oldest, who is
on separate rations.
- You make
your daughter sign out on pass on Prom Night.
- Your kindergartner
calls recess "smoke break."
- Your wife
calls foreplay "prepping the objective."
- Your wife
conducts an AAR after sex.
- Your wife
"takes a knee" in the checkout line at the Food Lion.
- You do
your "back to school" shopping at the U.S. Cavalry store.
- Your kids
call the tooth fairy "Slicky Boy."
- Your son
fails the third grade but tells everyone he was a "phase three
recycle."
- Your kids
salute their grandparents.
- Your wife's
"high-n-tight" is more squared away than your commander's.
- Your kids
get a LES for their allowance.
- Your grandmother
won "All American Week" and "Best Ranger."
- All your
kids have names that start with AR, FM, TM, or DA Form.
- Your pick-up
has your name stenciled on the windshield.
- Your kids
are hand-receipt holders.
- Your older
kids call the youngest one "Cherry."
- Your kids
recite their ABCs phonetically.
- Your wife
keeps Mermites in the China cabinet.
- You DX'd
your wife and then you held a "Change of Command" ceremony.
- You call
your in-laws the "Slice Elements."
- Your dog's
name is "Ranger."
- All your
possessions are military issue.
- Your kids
call their sandbox "NTC or CMTC"
- You have
pull-up bars outside the kitchen door.
- Your daughter's
first haircut was a flattop.
- Your kids
pull fireguard.
- Your newborn's
first words were "all OK Jumpmaster."
- You "bum
dips" from your four year old daughter.
- The only
channels you get are CNN, and ESPN.
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