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Offline ToeTag

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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2011, 04:50:35 PM »
I missunderstood.  Red wings were completely different in my day.  Red, Brown, And if you were darring enough there was even gold.   :bolt:
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2011, 07:15:18 PM »
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2011, 07:37:06 PM »
Quote from: ToeTag on May 01, 2011, 04:50:35 PM
I missunderstood.  Red wings were completely different in my day.  Red, Brown, And if you were darring enough there was even gold.   :bolt:

Heeheehee


   For anyone who doesn't know, Mthrockmor was referring to a tradition in the airborne, where when your jump wings are pinned to your uniform, the pinner punches the wings into your chest, driving the two spikes on the back of the badge into your skin.  This of course causes some bleeding and hurts like hell, which is how the term "blood wings" came about.  The tradition is more & more frowned upon by today's sensitive brass in charge, since it causes some pain, and we don't want our warrior's to experience any pain or any awful thing like that.  Even so, it's still practiced behind closed doors.  Hooah.
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Offline GFShill

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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #18 on: May 02, 2011, 08:50:52 AM »
Russians did it too.  Then again, they beat the crap out of each other as part of their training anyway. Spesnatz or whatever.
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2011, 10:36:08 AM »
Yes, before the "new and improved" painless Army rules.

Hooah  :rock
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2011, 11:42:07 AM »
Quote from: USRanger on May 01, 2011, 07:37:06 PM
Heeheehee


   For anyone who doesn't know, Mthrockmor was referring to a tradition in the airborne, where when your jump wings are pinned to your uniform, the pinner punches the wings into your chest, driving the two spikes on the back of the badge into your skin.  This of course causes some bleeding and hurts like hell, which is how the term "blood wings" came about.  The tradition is more & more frowned upon by today's sensitive brass in charge, since it causes some pain, and we don't want our warrior's to experience any pain or any awful thing like that.  Even so, it's still practiced behind closed doors.  Hooah.

We did this as common practice with rank.  If you got it right, you could get them to stick into the collar bone.   :salute
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2011, 11:53:05 AM »
Quote from: sluggish on May 01, 2011, 10:19:57 AM
Kind of a biker thing I guess... 

Not me.  No way. Uh uh.

No ,the biker thing is earning your RED wings, not blood wings.

No, Yes, but only inadvertently, and IN.
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #22 on: May 02, 2011, 12:35:00 PM »
Not understanding the whole "IN" epidemic on this thread...
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2011, 01:35:37 PM »
Quote from: VonMessa on May 02, 2011, 12:35:00 PM
Not understanding the whole "IN" epidemic on this thread...

I've seen far more innocuous topics turn ugly far more quickly. Let's just say their senses are keenly tuned.

I'd lay you a bet that some clown's going to come rushing in shortly to empty his colon on the figurative glass table.
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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2011, 01:45:56 PM »
Quote from: VonMessa on May 02, 2011, 10:36:08 AM
Yes, before the "new and improved" painless Army rules.

Hooah  :rock

Isn't that when they changed from painful poking in the front to......


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Re: Blood wings.
« Reply #25 on: May 02, 2011, 01:47:32 PM »
everyone is a little IN happy these days :headscratch:
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