From the Mouths of students

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:51 pm

The following is not about any military equipment but it is about a military dependent. Corey is a 14 year old freshmen with a skull full fo mush that sends sparks every so often and he actually acts like a student. His father is a 1st Sergeant and constantly on Corey and his schoolwork.
Today I was at my normal duty station during passing period. In the hall by my door, should there be any interruption in the hall. As Corey came in I mentioned that we had missed him the past few days and he replied that he had been sick. He walked into the classroom dragging the heavy backpack, that probably does not have a single text book in it. Suddenly he re-appeared at my door. " Where is Sam?" he exclaimed rather excited. Sam is a pretty little freshman girl with red hair. I related to him that her father had been transferred and she had checked out of school. Looking a little down, he exclaimed the following" Man, she sure got my male organisims excited." and he left. I held my hand over my mouth trying to stiffle my laughter. Finally I burst lose moving away from the door.
This job is the best.

Hammerhead · Post by **Hammerhead** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:15 am

Great story armydriver!

I well remember those days myself of raging hormones back in High School. Now I have a 16 year old son and a 14 year old daughter....the shoe is on the other foot.

Now it's my turn to get the grey hairs
and stay up late at night waiting for my newly licensed son to return home.

My son was 9 when I was restoring my GPW. One day when I was working on the jeep I proudly told my son "one day this will be yours". He thought about it a moment and asked "when I'm 16"? I quickly said "No maybe when you're 36"!

When they were young, the kids loved riding in the vehicles. Now they are too cool to! I asked my kids to go riding in the CCKW with me last fall and they both looked at me like I had lost my mind! One day last summer when my son was still 15, I needed to pick him up from football practice. I told the wife, "lets take the jeep." When we pulled up to the High School my son wanted to just crawl in a hole! His buddies thought it was cool tho.

Maybe when my son is 36 it'll be cool again!!

armydriver · Post by **armydriver** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:14 am

When I was fifteen my first vehicle was a jeep. It was 1955 and I bought a 1945 MB from a man for a $100.00. As I remember it had all of the military attachments. One day while cleaning leaves and dirt from around the gasoline tank I found some sterling silver captains bars. The pin was bent. The jeep is long gone but I still have the captains bars. Imagine , owning a WWII jeep when it was only ten years old.