1. You know what GDP means.
2. You remember when we had tactical nukes and really planned to use them.
3. You remember spending hours in MOPP4 and doing M256 kits.
4. You remember when M8 claymore and M72 LAW was part of CTT.
5. You remember when ARTEPs were 36 hours and you had fun.
6. You remember when Carl Vouno was CG and Max Thurman was head of recruiting
command.
7. You know what Gamma Goat and Goer were.
8. You remember when the Israelis were bad asses and we all wanted to be like
them.
9. You remember when Saddam Hussein was our loyal ally.
10.You remember when Airland Battle was a new concept, and everyone religiously
read 100-5.
11.You know what the Cap Weinberger Doctrine was.
12.You remember when the M16 was a plastic carbine, and you hoped for an M14.
13.You can remember going to the Club at Graf, drinking, and watching Margaret.
14.You personally know Margaret.
15.You know what a "smokey" is at Hohenfels.
16.You know the difference between VRC46, VRC47, PRC77 and VRC160.
17.You know what a CEOI is and you can encrypt grids.
18.You remember when NTC was a new and cool concept.
19.You remember when it was real cool to go to SAMs or be an OC at NTC.
20.You remember when as a new LT/CPT you could go out and train your soldiers
and not have an OC tell you how screwed up you were.
21.You remember BN Cdrs and 1SG's who were Vietnam Vets.
22.You remember Bn Cdrs who drank, swore and mentored.
23.You remember Bn Cdrs who were ruthless about tactics, but didn't give a crap
about admin BS (now its reverse).
24.You remember when 2LTs and CPLs demanded respect from PFCs and got it.
25.You can navigate at night without a GPS.
26.You can remember OPDs about Clausewitz (aka dead Karl) which usually ended
with beer drinking at the O'club.
27.You can remember when lanes training was real neat concept.
28.You can remember when 25-101 was a new concept.
29.You can remember when the defense budget was 7% of the GNP.
30.You can remember when the main battle area was the only fight.
31.You can remember when everyone's career track was 10 years in Germany with
1st Armored Division at Ansbach.
32.You remember when the Soviet Union was a major super power instead (albeit
the Russian Republic) of being a basket case for the IMF.
33.You can remember when everyone made O-5 by showing up to work everyday.