Old War Stories
Oct 04, 2022
The comic “Old War Stories” initially went up without commentary. The following was added in April of 2014:
After Vietnam, there weren't a lot of guys in the Army with real combat experience. Eventually, in the 1980's, the “Grenada Raiders” were the guys with the most recent combat experience. The Vietnam guys were either getting out, or promoted so high in the food chain that they didn’t have a lot of daily, regular contact with the troops.
Then the Grenada Raiders got set aside by the Panama veterans, and then in 1991 it was the Gulf War vets, then Somalia guys. Each generation of soldiers had very different war stories and experiences, and their perceptions were shaped by the realities they had encountered. To them, that was what war was.
The young female soldier in the foxhole in Kuwait is Private June Ransom, who we've already met as Staff-Sergeant Ransom the former "psycho Drill Sergeant". This was her at a much younger, more innocent time. We'll get a chance to see her 1991 Gulf War story in an upcoming episode which will serve as a flashback.
Recommendation for you
-
Recommendation
Out of the Blue
Romance 2.5m likes
-
Recommendation
Copper eyes
BL 973.8k likes
-
Recommendation
Erma
Comedy 1.9m likes
-
Recommendation
Do You Even Witch
BL 4.6m likes
-
Recommendation
Humor me
Slice of life 2.9m likes
-
Recommendation
Strange and Wild
BL 607.1k likes
-
Feeling lucky
Random series you may like
BOHICA Blues
25.6k views23 subscribers
What's it like to be in the Army for real, and get deployed to a place like the Iraq War? In BOHICA Blues, I turn my actual experiences into a slice of absurdist humor and walk you through this period of history from one person's perspective.
Using the classic TV show "M*A*S*H" as a guide, I created BOHICA Blues in 2013 to tell the story of what a deployment was like, with the absurdities of military life and war for all to see. It starts with the initial mobilization news, and goes on from there. BOHICA Blues isn't as "salty" as a lot of veteran humor; it doesn't have F-bombs, gore, or nudity: it could hypothetically appear on regular broadcast television.
Hopefully you can enjoy this and invite others to see what the Iraq War was like from someone who went there and is willing to share the experience with a laugh.
Updates every weekday at 2:00 pm US Pacific Time.
Using the classic TV show "M*A*S*H" as a guide, I created BOHICA Blues in 2013 to tell the story of what a deployment was like, with the absurdities of military life and war for all to see. It starts with the initial mobilization news, and goes on from there. BOHICA Blues isn't as "salty" as a lot of veteran humor; it doesn't have F-bombs, gore, or nudity: it could hypothetically appear on regular broadcast television.
Hopefully you can enjoy this and invite others to see what the Iraq War was like from someone who went there and is willing to share the experience with a laugh.
Updates every weekday at 2:00 pm US Pacific Time.
Comments (0)
See all