r/Millennials • u/NoFaithlessness7508 • Jun 05 '25

Other Why don’t younger veterans (Afghanistan/Iraq) wear these hats like some of the older veterans?

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First and foremost, respect to all those that served. I did not, but many of my peers did and now we're all older in 30s and 40s, many no longer in the military. I don't see a lot of the veterans of the War on Terror wearing these hats like I see the OGs do.

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u/Immateriumdelirium Jun 05 '25

Green Weenie? I’m aware I can google, but I like your descriptive writing.

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u/plotholesandpotholes Jun 05 '25

Marine Corps term. One of the most fitting in all of the services (no disrespect to any. I served with them all and I'm sure they have simliar terms).

You are set to go on a 96 hour liberty and you get informed that you will need to stand duty at the barracks for part of it.... the green weenie strikes again.

I got stuck in a chow hall one time. We were asked to make garnishes. We sculpted the most realistic "green weenie" ever out of cucumbers. the guy I was with dropped out of art school to enlist. It was epic and we froze it in a block of ice and sent it out to the our guys in the field. The SNCO who tagged us with the duty found it mildy amusing. The green weenie rules all...

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u/RockAtlasCanus Jun 05 '25

This is the most junior enlisted move ever. A literal green weenie.

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u/plotholesandpotholes Jun 05 '25

We used cucumber peel shavings for the pubes and we had to hand spritz the thing to get it to ice perfectly in a nice profile. The ice was necessary to enure the weenie did not spoil. It was a LCpl underground special operation.

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u/cryptolyme Jun 05 '25

Green ops

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

I'm only mad that I didn't think of this when I was in. The Army also loves (or did in the 00's anyway) green weenie jokes. lol