Can you imagine, you’re in the thick of it, you want your bud to cover your back as you’re about to risk it all … and he drapes a blanket over you like a shawl! I guess stranger things have happened. At least it was GI issue!

Those freaking horse blankets last for years. I think I just threw mine out a few years ago and it was decades old. I still have my woolen gloves with leather liners from Basic. I live in the south now so don’t ever really use or need them. Oh, still have my “go to hell” hat with some patches … Snoopy as the Red Baron saying, “To Hell and Back” and some doofus GI flipping the bird to the word “Re-Up.”