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Speaking of deja vu...

By The Armorer on February 20, 2007 | | Comments (6)

...as I did elsewhere.

How about a stroll down memory lane, pre-VOLAR?*

Pre-VOLAR barracks room.

*VOLAR - Volunteer Army. A term from the 80's used by those of us who were pre-VOLAR to refer to the "obscene amenities" used to recruit the stupid, shiftless, and unemployable into the United States Army of Myrmidons.

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By fdcol63 on February 20, 2007 12:43 PM
Hmmm .... I musta been stuck in some kind of transitional VOLAR Twighlight Zone, 'cause that looks a lot like my billets in the early '80's. Evidently, we didn't get the "obscene amenities". But it sure beat the SAND. LOL
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 20, 2007 1:09 PM
Nah, Frank. We had VOLAR furniture, anyway. Those white lockers and stuff... Not that I would know, living off-post and all, over in Oberasbach.
 
By Barb on February 20, 2007 3:23 PM
Yeah - that's obscene, all right. But amenities would not be the proper noun...
 
By SangerM on February 20, 2007 6:13 PM
Heyyyyy.... That's my volar basic training barracks at Dix (but ours was neater), and the only difference between that and what I lived with in Geramny was... uummm... no spiffy stands or footlockers, AND the heavier duty gray metal bunks and thicker mattresses held together with that cool riot tool otherwise known as a bunk connector. Yeah, I got one better than that... At Hohenfels, which probably doesn't count, 'cause we were glad to be inside for change...
 
By SangerM on February 20, 2007 9:38 PM
Oh, yeah... thanks!! I didn't see this: : used to recruit the stupid, shiftless, and unemployable into the United States Army of Myrmidons. Of course! It was the blue, red, & yellow desks, chairs, and wall lockers that did it for me. That and the 8 man rooms. woo-oo! stupid? yeah, I joined the Army shiftless? well I never worked any shift, never had a job unemployable? likely, didn't know squat, not even which foot was the hay foot and which foot was the straw foot (city boy, din't no thar wuz a differnse....)
 
By Rod Thorsen on February 20, 2007 11:57 PM
A CHAIR!!!! Cripes, how'd you guys get a chair!!!!