Huge culture shock for sure haha. He was very much an anti-authority hippie type but he needed to pay for college. Army sent him to language school and he wound up debriefing people crossing the Berlin Wall for a few years. Went to college, got a PhD, taught in military academies and postgraduate programs most of his career. Literally gave him his life as a working class kid from Detroit.
My mother also joined the Army around the same time and was sent to language school in Monterey - later stationed in Germany. So cool to see someone else’s hippie parent have the same trajectory. Cheers to your dad! *edit to add: she was stationed Garmisch 74-75 where she skied frequently and tasked with renting out ski boots (that’s a post?). Prior to that at Bremerhaven.
Oh, I love Garmisch! It is easily one of the most beautiful places in the world, she was very lucky to call that home for a while.
天呐,我超爱加米施!那绝对是世界上最美的地方之一,她能在那儿住上一阵子真是太幸运了。
analogatmidnight57 赞2025/1/10
I skied in Europe only once and it was in Garmisch. Neat experience and cozy winter place.
我在欧洲只滑过一次雪,就是在那儿。挺棒的体验,是个很惬意的冬日度假地。
ShowMeTheTrees65 赞2025/1/10
Detroit represents! Did he return to Metro Detroit later? Brrrr it's cold here today!
底特律雄起!他后来回到底特律都市圈了吗?呜呜,今天这儿可真够冷的!
maenads_dance173 赞2025/1/10
Wound up in Chicago for about 12 years, then we bopped around when I was young. My family's still up there though - Grandpa, aunt and uncle. He's absolutely thrilled about the Lions this year haha
Husband is a bears fan who ALWAYS roots for the lions when they play other teams
我老公是个熊队球迷,但只要雄狮队对阵其他球队,他绝对会无条件支持雄狮。
millhows60 赞2025/1/10
That’s a shame. Pretty sure he was on the verge of inventing the personal computer and becoming a billionaire. 💻 (Jk)
真可惜。我敢说他当时都快发明出个人电脑,变身亿万富翁了。💻 (开个玩笑)
cir-ick78 赞2025/1/10
Doesn’t matter the decade. We all look like deer in the headlights in our basic training photos. 😂
哪年哪代都一样。咱们在新兵训练营的照片里看着都像被车灯照住的呆头鹅。😂
Seven22am151 赞2025/1/10
*record scratch* You’re probably wondering how I got here…
*唱片刮擦声*
你大概在想,我是怎么沦落到这步田地的……
SplitRock13050 赞2025/1/10
Yup, that’s me, with the buzz cut.
没错,那确实是我,留着个寸头。
MagicPaul25 赞2025/1/10
\*Baba O'Riley begins playing\*
*《Baba O'Riley》音乐响起*
Laputitaloca15 赞2025/1/10
Dude. I *heard* this.
哥们,我简直能“听见”这画面。
Interesting_Cow515237 赞2025/1/10
The draft was over by that time. He joined. From what I remember about Basic, I think the look is of exhaustion.
那时候征兵制已经结束了。他入伍了。根据我对新兵训练的记忆,我觉得他那一脸的疲惫感。
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The look is, "I've got to pose for this and look the part or they're gonna recycle me and send me back to week 1 and I can't handle it this sucks, let me get out of here omg why did I do this, maybe I could I have worked at the grocery store it would have been fine I'm so tired" Well, that was my inner monologue.
I was in later than this but they had us make the same wide-eyed face when getting our pictures taken. I never got a satisfactory answer for why, exactly. I've always wondered about that one.
Ah the good old "What the fuck have I gotten myself into" look in a boot camp photo.
啊,新兵训练营照片里那股经典的“我特么到底把自己往火坑里推了什么”的表情。
StretchFrenchTerry186 赞2025/1/10
My first thought was the draft and then saw in Wikipedia that the draft ended in 73.
我第一反应还以为是强制征兵,结果去维基百科看了眼,征兵制 73 年就结束了。
AnytimeInvitation79 赞2025/1/10
I was told it was better to enlist then get drafted. If you enlisted you had a good shot at getting into a different MOS while if you were drafted you were likely going to be infantry.
It’s amazing what a hair cut will do to your looks.
理个发对颜值的影响简直绝了。
maenads_dance327 赞2025/1/10
My Dad loves a tall tale, but he swears his hair was butt-length when he had to get shaved and that he cried when they took the clippers to his head lol
I went to Basic Training the summer between my Jr and Sr year of high school ('81). My hair was to the middle of my back when they cut it off. I was really bummed about it but soon appreciated the short hair while going through Basic in Georgia during the summer. I was pretty self conscious about it when I went back to high school but have stayed with the buzz cut pretty much since then, despite getting out in '86.
You went to basic and then back to high school? That must have been some serious back and forth culture shock.
你参加完基础训练又回高中上学去了?这中间的文化冲击肯定挺大的吧。
FrostyBeav33 赞2025/1/10
Yeah, it was for the Army National Guard. They had a program where you could enlist as soon as you turned 17 and then split your training, going to Basic between Jr and Sr year and then AIT (Army's version of tech school) once you graduate. You attended drill weekend once a month even though you hadn't finished training. The main culture shock was going to Basic across the country as a very young 17 year old. Also, I didn't maintain the same level of training once I got back home so I was in much worse shape than most of the other people, who were fresh out of Basic, once I went back to AIT. That made for some rough PT sessions.
Judging by the expression in a lot of these military pictures I'm convinced they were given a corn cob to sit on
看这些军旅照里不少人的表情,我敢说他们绝对是坐在一根玉米棒子上照的相。
maenads_dance84 赞2025/1/10
My mom (National Guard in the 80s) and my Dad both swear they put stuff in the food to stop you from pooping...
我妈(80年代国民警卫队的)和我爸都发誓说,部队在伙食里加了料,专门让人拉不出屎……
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It's still true. MREs are famous for giving soldiers constipation. Whether it's intentional or the result of eating indestructible crackers for months on end, the world may never know.
adorkable in the first picture, very handsome in the second! crazy how hair and glasses can make someone look like they have a totally different personality
When the coke wears off and you are in the army now...
等可卡因劲儿过了,你就知道在军队里有多难熬了……
Shmungle138016 赞2025/1/10
More like hes still high from the acid in the previous picture!
感觉更像是他还没从上一张照片里的致幻剂劲儿里缓过来呢!
yaboyACbreezy44 赞2025/1/10
'75 weed '76 coke
75年抽大麻。
76年嗑可卡因。
BubbaCutBear39 赞2025/1/10
Switched meds I see.
看来是换了药了啊。
robert1020936 赞2025/1/10
Cleaned up nicely.
变利索了不少嘛。
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One of my buddies joined the army in 1990 right after high school. He looked at lot like your dad, both before and after.
我有个哥们儿1990年刚高中毕业就去参军了。他长得跟你爸挺像的,不管是以前还是后来。
PPBalloons22 赞2025/1/10
Your dad was Warren Zevon?
你爸是沃伦·泽冯(Warren Zevon)?
sdlotu17 赞2025/1/10
Fortunately for him, by 1975 the army wasn’t sending teenagers to die in Southeast Asia.
幸运的是,到了1975年,军队已经不再把十几岁的毛头小子送去东南亚送死了。
maenads_dance27 赞2025/1/10
Yes - he was too young for the draft, but a lot of his friends’ older brothers wound up in Vietnam. His description of the Army in 76 was they would take anyone they were so desperate for volunteers, including a lot of people with criminal records.