Originally Posted by
Winger Ed.
My Dad had a buddy who was a early 60's issue USMC Lt.
He burned his hand at OCS, on a hot, tin can, C-Rat stove, he borrowed because he was too lazy to make his own.
When he grabbed it, the little blue heat tablet was still in there burning.
The Navy Corpsmen gave him Preparation H too.
When he told me about it, I started laughing until I about fell over.
He was greatly offended---- so I went on and told him,
"They only gave you that because you're an Officer. They're probably still laughing about it."
I can see them: "Here ya go, this is Prepartaion H,,,,, its for *** holes. It'll fix you right up".
And no.... That did not improve his mood.
He asked me, 'Oh yeah, what did they give you"?
I told him all us Air Wing Enlisted guys got:
"Ointment, topical, 1 each, in the olive drab, GI issue, little foil tube" from 'Doc', our Fleet Corpsman.