Short timers calendar

[39mto39g]

When I had a month left I made a 30 day calendar for my helmet.
Only about 2 inch square and looked like a big blob when almost complete. But I was short. I was so short I had to hurry up just to stop.

Ron

[DMZ-LT]

Early in 1971 the NVA dropped calanders along a trail we were using and i got one. It was a 1971 calander on one side and on the other side it said , in English ," Not one more day here !" I kept it and every few days or weeks when it got quite and I got some time I would mark out days and try to figure out what day it was and what had happened when

[Chas H]

The first time I declared myself "short" was in the final, DEROS, ETS pay line at Ft Lewis.

[sn-e3]

I had a short timmers chain and every morning in front of the guys lined up for tools at the boatswains locker I would take the master key ie bolt cutters and cut off one link. those were the days.

[Jerry D]

when I was stationed at Incirlik AB Turkey I had a short calender of a Camel, When I got deployed to Saudi Both times I had some short calenders their too they had them made up to look like a rug or some other typical Middleastern item. ALways better to be on the down side of a deployment then just arriveing

[exlrrp]

I didn't think I was going to live through it right up to the last day. My last day on patrol was 10 days before DEROS and I suspeicioned they were going to let me Be All I Can Be right up to the last day. When I woke up the next morning, they told me to pack my stuff and head back to Enari and start clearing. We never wore helmets in the lrrps--don't think I even had one--so I didn't keep score on mine like lots of guys did.
I still have my short timers clipboard from Bragg, though, with a pinup pasted on the back--Got the numberrs crossed out and some mighty pithy comments on it too. it was in all my other stuff my mom had saved for me when she gave it all to me couple years ago.

Stay good
James

[Chas H]

On June 5, 1968 I got my orders to report to the 507th Repl Co, 22nd Repl Bn Can Ranh Bay for transportation to USA Trf Sta Ft Lewis. Scheduled to depart Cam Ranh Bay at 0800 hrs June 7 '68.
This was it, goin' home, exactly 366 days (1968 was a leap year) after departing from Pope AFB. It would be two more days before I made that famous cry of "short!".

[Seascamp]

I spent my last days in the 32nd Street brig, San Diego. I suppose they didn?t know what to do with me so I was made into an SP and was given the task of doing paperwork and taking alleged miscreants here and there. Also rounding up new recruits at the airport and making sure the got on the blue bus to USNTC.

One fellow in the drunk tank told me ?say good by to that crow, I know Adm. ta dot ta da and he is going to have your ass?. Way cool, I went home the next morning so I guess I missed the de crowing party, oh well. Evidently he didn't care for being washed down with a water hose. Probably preferred having puke all over himself, different strokes for different folks perhaps, who knows

Scamp

[Seascamp]

Short timer cup. Be speaks of the end attatude I reckon.

[phuloi]

Made myself a shorttimer`s stick for my final 30 days(or so I thought) in country.Things don`t always turn out the way we have planned,I guess.My orders simply stated that I would be "Retained at the convenience of the Government."
Shit-canned the damn stick in disgust.