You might be from a galaxy long ago and far away

if you:

Know why there is a bayonet lug on the end of your weapon.

Still don't trust the Russians.

Know who Iron Mike is.

Know that "Cav" is an abnormal condition that can be cured with testosterone shots. (OK, so the list was compiled by a lowlife inf dude.) **

Can remember the daily dozen.

Can remember running PT in boots.

Know that tankers exist in order to allow the enemy to deplete its basic load of sabot ammunition. (See above parenthetical.)

Know why you should carry two field dressings on your LBE.

Know how to do a daisy chain.

Have enough extra TA-50 in yourcloset to start a surplus store.

Still have jungle fatigues in your closet.

Are convinced that wall-to-wall counseling really works.

Know that it's not real coffee if you can't stand a track jack up in it.

Might admire the Germans, but still realize they got their asses kicked … twice.

(** In 1989 at the Benning clothing sales store, while filling a buggy with items I should have been issued but wasn’t, said items of uniform required for an NCO course, I decided to pick up a few extra Blackhorse patches. I didn’t find any in the patches area, so while checking out and before handing over a couple or three hundred dollars++, asked the cashier if the store had any 11th Armored Cavalry patches. She said, “Is that an infantry unit?”)

(++ That was almost like real money 21 years ago.)