{"id":1902,"date":"2012-02-03T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:34:15","slug":"you-might-be-an-airborne-soldier-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/americainuniform\/2012\/02\/you-might-be-an-airborne-soldier-if.html","title":{"rendered":"You might be an Airborne Soldier if&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/americainuniform\/files\/2012\/01\/airborne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1972\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/293\/2012\/01\/airborne-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The first thing you do in the morning is put in a dip<br \/>\nYour favorite beer is someone else&#8217;s<br \/>\nYour cologne smells suspiciously like bug juice<br \/>\nYou think a spit shine means to spit on your boots and wipe them on the back of your pant legs<br \/>\nYour kids wear a high and tight and stand at parade rest<br \/>\nYou tell the arresting officer that you have just been alerted and you were speeding to work<br \/>\nWhen you have dinner guests in between paydays, you try to pass off a hamslice as canned ham<br \/>\nYou use your spotter scope to pull surveillance at the pool or the Pope AFB air show<br \/>\nYou would rather smoke a private then a Marlboro<br \/>\nYour hide site is cleaner than your room<br \/>\nYou set up concertina wire around your house to keep trick or treaters away<br \/>\nYou spend your free time thinking of ways you would destroy things if you were a terrorist<br \/>\nYou never enter a bar without an E&amp;R plan<br \/>\nYou consider a &#8220;Recon&#8221; walking around the bar looking for chicks<br \/>\nYou order a beer from the waitress by hollering &#8220;Nurse give me an IV&#8221;<br \/>\nYou consider a six pack a well balanced breakfast<br \/>\nYou say &#8220;Hooah&#8221; whether you understand or not<br \/>\nYou creatively acquire things you need<br \/>\nEvery sport you play has the word combat as part of its name<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<div>Provided Courtesy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/\">Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Click here for more<strong> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rd.com\/all-jokes.do?cat=1198\">Military Jokes<\/a>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing you do in the morning is put in a dip Your favorite beer is someone else&#8217;s Your cologne smells suspiciously like bug juice You think a spit shine means to spit on your boots and wipe them on the back of your pant legs Your kids wear a high and tight and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":442,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-humor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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