You know you're addicted to JROTC when...

[navytrooper]

I just thought this was such a good thread back in the old forum that I wanted to bring it back. Mods feel free to delete if you feel it is unneeded, but there was so much participation before. Here are some of the ones from the original thread, I'll post some more soon.

1.You fix your gig line in civilian clothing
2.You do columns and flanks when going around corners
3. You march with your friends in the hallways, calling commands obnoxiously loudly so that people stare at you
4. When people ask you what you do after school, your response is "Drill team"
5. You're more excited over a promotion ceremony than a report card…wait, forget
that. EVERYBODY likes promotion ceremonies more than report cards
6. When people ask what drill team is, you go into a long and detailed description of drill team AND color guard
7. Your normal every-day conversations revolve around SOMETHING involving J.R.O.T.C.
8. Most of your friends are in J.R.O.T.C.
9. Your mood for the day revolves around how J.R.O.T.C. went
10. You're more excited about the upcoming drill meet than Spring Break or
summer Break.
11. You shop for clothes at the BX or off online military sites.
12. You have tried to stay on step with your A. Car and/or B. Pet.
13. On Memorial Day, you go into a gas station and almost get into a fight with the cashier over their flag not being at Half-Staff.
14. When someone mentions "Saber", a prehistoric cat is not the first thing you think of.
15. You didn't know there were other electives besides JROTC.
16. You don't think of an M-1 as a tank.
17. Springfield is a city, too?
18. You know every way to cheat on shining your shoes.
19. You actually know what Brand of shoe polish is the best.
20. When you buy $60 shoes, they aren't Nike, they're Patent Leathers.
21. You get called emo for having cuts on your hand from putting together ribbon
racks.
22. You consider it normal to play with a gun at school.
23. You still go back to school during the summer to visit your instructors.
24. You excited when you get your uniform reissued for a color guard after your
last day of school.
25. You do both of the above after you have graduated from high school.
26. Your girlfriend/boyfriend questions your ability to have a conversation that doesn't include JROTC at some point or other.
27. Your non- JROTC friends just don't understand why you call them by their last names.
28. Your t-shirts have creases in the sleeves.
29. When someone makes a comment along the lines of "Thank you Captain Obvious," you point out that it has been a good while since you were a Cadet Captain, and that Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Obvious is more accurate.
30. You can field strip a M-14 in 17 seconds.
31. You can do the above blindfolded.
32. When someone calls you sir you make the comment "I work for a living".
33. When someone says you spin a gun you correct them to say "it's a M-1 Grand
10 pounds" and then you go into the full history.
34. People think you're a diabetic because of the pokes on your finger from pinning on new decorations.
35. You find yourself saying rappelling is an art.
36. You can tell what branch of service you’re in just by the way you roll your BDU's sleeves.
37. You press your civilian clothes.
38. When someone tells you to relax you go to Parade Rest
39. You automatically address adults known to you as “Sir” or “Madam”
40. You are not comfortable around other cadets until you know their rank
41. Visions of new exhibition drill moves dance in your head as you sleep
42. You salute yourself in the mirror to practice
43. If every girl was crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man you could put Hugh Heffner to shame
44. You brush your teeth and shave every morning in your shoes
45. You watch JAG, or other military shows correcting everything the stupid TV
people got wrong with the uniforms
46. Your shoes are so perfect you accidentally walked across water one time
47. You actually wrote a book of hints to keeping your uniform perfect
48. You came up with and taught to your unit a jingle to memorize the Chain of Command
49. You burst out sobbing when the team immediately before you executes an amazing, flawless, stunning routine
50. You can keep your military bearing through a hurricane and a volcano… together
51. Your family needs to give you permission before you will eat
52. Your room is covered with drill manuals and DVD's of drill teams
53. You use hooah, Oorah, or Hooyah in everyday conversation
54. Your hands move in small circular motions as if polishing boots when you sleep.
55. Your pet stands at attention when you pass.
56. You give your uniform a rank and name.
57. Your locker is crammed with shoe polish, brass, uniform, decorations, and manuals for inspection.
58. You love your boots more than your girlfriend.
59. Since you've graduated, you've inspected your program twice and been a guest speaker for a day.
60. When noob Armed Drill Team cadets from other AFJROTC schools proclaim there rifle weights 13, or even 16lbs.
61. Whenever you do the pledge you call the respective room to attention (ROTC or not)
62. In civilian clothes you still act like your in military uniform while saying the pledge.
63. Your only goal in life is to be captain of the Drill Team/Color Guard.
64. When you go to the Ren. Fair, the only thing you look for is Sabers and Excalibur styled AF Honor guard Swords.
65. You would rather ask your SASI to wear your ROTC/JROTC uniform to prom instead of a tuxedo.
66. You have seen the movie Patton more than once and can Quote it.
67. You actually know that Patton was about 1 foot shorter than in the movie and had a squeaky voice instead of a deep voice.
68. Your friends ask you to bring food for a party and you bring MRE's
69. You call those little ChefboyRDee's in the microwavable cups MRE's.
70. The only thing you can't hit 200 feet away with your BB gun is the neighbor’s cat.

[navytrooper]

71. You do pushups and sit-ups at breakfast.
72. You attempt to get out of your graduation so you can do the color guard for it.
73. You bring MRE's to school.
74. You get your friends to bring MRE's to school.
75. The only suitable place to ask the girl you are dating out is in front of the corps at military ball.
76. You just HAVE to spin the bat when you go to play baseball with your friends.
77. The underclassmen put you in a garbage can so you can't leave the JROTC building on your last day of school.
78. Those same underclassmen still salute you.
79. Military ball means more to you than prom.
80. You've actually figured out it's relatively hard to return salutes while in graduation robes.
81. You are in uniform for the first 3 weeks of school.
82. You use your textbooks as a rifle and practice spinning them and snapping them to attention while walking from class to class.
83. When you run in Gym you run in double time style.
84. When your mom says "stop playing with that rifle" you say, “a it's not playing it's studying!"
85. Your digital watch tells military time and only that.
86. You inspect your girl friend when you go over to her house.
87. When on trips, you call cadence as you walk around the buildings and amusement sites.
88. You take more time fixing your uniform than anything else in the morning.
89. The definition of "weekend homework" is twirling a rifle and watching that new dvd on drill.
90. Your actual homework is used as target practice for the rifle team.
91. (parody the walking to class with books) You have dropped them so many times while doing that that it has actually broken the hard covers off the books.
92. You have actually bought your own personal up to date ribbon bar from your ASI so you can keep a duplicate incase something happens to the other one.
93. You mention it over 3 times on your job applications.
94. You fly in a civilian airplane and give tips to the pilot.
95. You have joined the Grunts Cadet Forum and log on whenever you get the chance.
96. You lurk on Grunt's Cadet Forum...on the government's time and bandwidth
97. You obsess that Rifles are weapons, not guns
98. You refer to your schools cafeteria food as "c-rations"
99. Your cadets actually salute when you tell them to.
100. Most of the drill you do is improvised and is not normally taught.
101. Your time at your schools computer lab is spent on here.
102. You obsess about getting a landmark number on something posted on the site like 100.
103. You can tell anyone the difference between the Daisy Springfield 1903 and M1 Grand.
104. You convert JROTC lingo to instant messaging.
105. You march to your ball while playing golf.
106. Your family says you need an intervention for your JROTC addiction
107. Your gig line is always perfect.
108. Your MP3 player has running and marching cadences.
109. You hover the boards waiting for someone to post so you can post along side them.
110. You actually think, even though it is against the rules, about creating a second person so you can have a seemingly intelligent conversation with yourself.
111. You wish your summer would hurry up and end so you can go back to school and JROTC.
112. Your summer is spent AT school in JROTC working on tasks to prepare for next school year, help with inventories, etc.
113. You are a AD service member still lurking around the cadet forum instead of the AD/prior service forum.
114. You have 3 drill rifles in your house
115. You know the logistics room better than your own bedroom.
116. You and your girlfriend speak of nothing but JROTC because she's in your unit as well.
117. Paradestore.com is bookmarked and you visit it when you can.
118. When you run into your NSI in the mall you "walk" up, say hi, and then realize that he is giving you a funny look because you had been marching with your friends and then proceeded to march toward him and salute and ask permission to utilize his unarmed mall area.
119. When you have literally spent over 11 hours at school because of JROTC.
120. When you have switched from a night person to a morning person because your at school at 6:00 a.m. for early morning drill.
121. You find yourself practicing your command voice whenever possible.
122. You spend more time at school than at home throughout the entire year.
123. You go to the store to buy a belt that is similar to the JROTC belt just so you can have some kind of sense that you are in uniform and need to adjust your gig line.
124. You have more J.R.O.T.C. awards then you have any other type of award you have received other then J.R.O.T.C. awards in your life combined.
125. You get into fights with your family/parents because you go on so many field trips and there are way to many permission slips to sign.
126. Your only excuse not to be in school is you were in the ROTC room
127. The only reason that you do not have EVERY award, is because that wreck outside the school was not serious enough to earn you a valor award. (just poking fun at everyone, including me, who will never complete a ribbon bar.)
128. The only reason you would leave ROTC on your own free will is to go to the drill meet.
129. You carved three drill rifles yourself
130. The spec ops commander actually asked you to be a little less authentic in your field training.
131. Your rocket launched so violently that your ASI thought we were under attack by the Russians.
132. The only reason why you come to school is for JROTC.
133. You spend a year and a half focusing on earning one specific award.
134. The only reason why you have a Varsity Letterman's Jacket is because of the drill team or Color Guard
135. You have considered failing a class or two so you can be held back just to be able to go back to JROTC.
136. At first your teacher applaud you for being in JROTC but then start to dislike it when your going on a field trip every other week and missing class all the time.
137. The only reason why you go to the worst school in the district is because of JROTC.
138. You put your hat on outside when you’re in civvies.
139. You can spot out every mistake made in drill on a movie.
140. When you start to teach your siblings how to drill before they know how to walk.
141. Your other friends call you "Sarge" instead of your real name.
142. When people know your last name as well as your rank and how to spell it but can't take a guess at your first name.
143. When your friends are singing happy birthday to you and they use your last name instead of your first name.
144. When you use anything to practice armed exhibition drill in your spare time.
145. When you sit in the cafeteria with 10 other cadets crowded around a table and the entire conversation is what happened in drill team and JROTC that day.
146. You try to keep instep with EVERYONE at school
147. You can quote every line from Major Payne
148. You correct everything wrong about Major Payne
149. You can quote Full Metal Jacket
150. You do a Eyes Right when you pass the national flag
151. When you laugh like Major Payne
152. You walk standing erect instead of slouching
153. You call cadences walking down the hall and have everyone looking
154. People ask you if you're going to the Army
155. You critique the band members about mark timing
156. You compare your color guard spats to the band's
157. You stop cadets in the hall on uniform day and correct their uniforms
158. You cut/burn small threads from your civilian clothes
159. The word "outstanding" replaces every other word in your vocabulary for something that it is positive.
160. You march everywhere you go, all the time.
161. You call cadence when you march everywhere, all the time.
162. You reflexively salute when you see an officer, whether you're in uniform or not.
163. You use Cadet Names from Major Payne as nicknames for friends in JROTC.

[navytrooper]

164. Your ASI actually refers to said cadets by nicknames on a regular basis.
165. You call out of work just to go to your old schools DT practice, and actually fill in for someone who couldn't make it.
166. When your parents hear *squeak squeak squeak* emanating from your bedroom upon coming home, their first thought is not that you're getting into trouble, but that they need to de-rust the ironing board and that they forgot to get your uniform pressed.
167. You get severely irate when your non-ROTC friends refer to your cord as "rope."
168. You non-ROTC friends often get annoyed because all you talk about is ROTC.
169. You give a report in a non-ROTC class in the style of a DI. (This has a story behind it.)
170. When you leave your parents a note, you type and print it using memorandum format.
171. In a job interview your resume revolves around JROTC, Drill Team, and Color Guard.
172. In a job interview, you say you participate On Drill team, before you tell them you play other sports.
173. When you spend all of 4th block before drill team writing up things for the team, or else watching the clock
174. You spend or want to spend more time there than at home
175. You get sent to the grog bowl for talking shop...during English class.
176. You spend all your Christmas money on things for your Honor Guard
177. When you ask your SASI if you could take home a practice drill rifle and you take it to school the next morning and then a random bus driver driving down the street calls the cops
178. You stand at parade rest in the "chow line" at lunch, say, "Ma'am, (comment), ma'am!" to anything the lunch ladies say, and sit at attention when you're done eating.
179. When you ask for a drill rifle for Christmas, and you know that rifle inside an out when you haven't even gotten it yet.
180. When you know where your SASI and ASI live.
181. When you can talk to your SASI and ASI like y'all are best of friends.
182. In a desperately bored state, you reduce yourself to making images of your ribbon rack from scratch, then doing it all over again because your color scheme was terrible and your clusters were unrecognizable.
183. Your SASI/ASI has picked you up from your house to do something for JROTC.
184. When your SASI/ASI has dropped you off at your house after doing something for JROTC
185. Your SASI has called you asking for advice relating to JROTC.
186. You have the personal cell phone numbers of BOTH your instructors saved to your own phone, and even have a speed dial for your SASI.
187. When you don't have a rifle to spin so you tape up a tube of gift wrapping paper and spin that.
188. When you watch a drill/ color guard/ exhibition sequence and you recognize the drill pad and sometimes the MTI.
189. When you watch a drill/ color guard/ exhibition sequence on the internet and you see yourself in the background.
190. When the top thing on your Christmas list is an M1 Grand replica
191. When you GET said rifle and practice ALL DAY, even taking it with you to the dinner table.
192. When you exclaim, "Are you okay, baby?!" when you drop said rifle
193. When your normal daily routine includes saber AND rifle drill for a set amount of time at some point during the day
194. When you work yourself so hard with a rifle that you're no longer able to carry it in your right hand...then pick up your saber.
195. When you laugh at a kid carrying a yellow card of any kind.
196. When your friends in JROTC think you talk too much about JROTC.
197. When you have a miniature set of your ribbon rack.
198. When the ONLY people you hang out with outside school are fellow JROTC cadets.
199. When you criticize a children's toy in the mall as such: (Toy labeled Combat M16 – That looks a lot more like an M4)
200. When you plan on getting an AFJROTC tattoo.
201. When you and another cadet are basically the only ones keeping this topic alive.
202. When you're more worried about the drill exam with the HQ Inspector than you are about midterms and finals that day.
203. When you get pulled out of the auditorium during an assembly for loudly commenting that the colors are not properly set up.
204. You actually refer to the U.S. flag as the colors.
205. You get a job so you can get money to buy equipment for your unit.
206. You can do drill movements in any shoes. (i.e. flip-flops and the like)
207. Against your school principal's and school district superintendent's wishes, you try and make your unit more militaristic.
208. Your computer desktop, cell phone wallpaper, room, and even your iPod have a picture of your unit number and patch.
209. Being on TV or in the newspaper is commonplace for you whilst doing color guards or drill team events.
210. You watch Cadet Kelly and you get mad because they did everything wrong.
211. When you are listening to a kick A*S song and a montage of JROTC is going through your head.
212. When you dislocate your thumb spinning your rifle, but instead of complaining, you pop it back in place and keep on practicing.
213. When you correct military movies because they are wearing the wrong kind of cammies.
214. When you know 3 of the five different branches Drill manuals.
215. You have convinced your parents after four years to let you attend Howe Military School
216. You have for the passed four years been buying said military school items.
217. When you say hooah instead of amen at church
218. When your nick name is that army boy
219. When you are the student council president an you model yourself after Gen. Eisenhower
220. You where your class A’s to an interview
221. When you read every post up to this one.
222. You call your cadet officers by there rank instead of there name.
223. When the CC tells you to chill out and not take it so seriously
224. When your instructor accuses you of spending too much time doing JROTC functions, in and out of school, and replaces you in a couple upcoming events for the purposes of an "intervention".
225. When you spend more time shining your shoes then doing your homework.
226. Your idea of a party is going to you Drill/Color Guard Commanders house to shine shoes.
227. Your spell check recognizes military jargon.
228. When half your classes involve ROTC.
229. When the only people you know outside of JROTC is your family.
230. When you recruit all of your siblings into JROTC

[Buffa1oso1di3r]

Haha! I knew this would have to come back!

Now, I'll post again when I think of a good addition...

[navytrooper]

Originally Posted by Buffa1oso1di3r

Haha! I knew this would have to come back!

Now, I'll post again when I think of a good addition...

I'm just mad because these were the only ones I was able to recover (the old Cadet Forum doesn't exist anymore...)

[Drill for life]

Originally Posted by navytrooper

I just thought this was such a good thread back in the old forum that I wanted to bring it back. Mods feel free to delete if you feel it is unneeded, but there was so much participation before. Here are some of the ones from the original thread, I'll post some more soon.

1.You fix your gig line in civilian clothing
2.You do columns and flanks when going around corners
3. You march with your friends in the hallways, calling commands obnoxiously loudly so that people stare at you
4. When people ask you what you do after school, your response is "Drill team"
5. You're more excited over a promotion ceremony than a report card…wait, forget
that. EVERYBODY likes promotion ceremonies more than report cards
6. When people ask what drill team is, you go into a long and detailed description of drill team AND color guard
7. Your normal every-day conversations revolve around SOMETHING involving J.R.O.T.C.
8. Most of your friends are in J.R.O.T.C.
9. Your mood for the day revolves around how J.R.O.T.C. went
10. You're more excited about the upcoming drill meet than Spring Break or
summer Break.
11. You shop for clothes at the BX or off online military sites.
12. You have tried to stay on step with your A. Car and/or B. Pet.
13. On Memorial Day, you go into a gas station and almost get into a fight with the cashier over their flag not being at Half-Staff.
14. When someone mentions "Saber", a prehistoric cat is not the first thing you think of.
15. You didn't know there were other electives besides JROTC.
16. You don't think of an M-1 as a tank.
17. Springfield is a city, too?
18. You know every way to cheat on shining your shoes.
19. You actually know what Brand of shoe polish is the best.
20. When you buy $60 shoes, they aren't Nike, they're Patent Leathers.
21. You get called emo for having cuts on your hand from putting together ribbon
racks.
22. You consider it normal to play with a gun at school.
23. You still go back to school during the summer to visit your instructors.
24. You excited when you get your uniform reissued for a color guard after your
last day of school.
25. You do both of the above after you have graduated from high school.
26. Your girlfriend/boyfriend questions your ability to have a conversation that doesn't include JROTC at some point or other.
27. Your non- JROTC friends just don't understand why you call them by their last names.
28. Your t-shirts have creases in the sleeves.
29. When someone makes a comment along the lines of "Thank you Captain Obvious," you point out that it has been a good while since you were a Cadet Captain, and that Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Obvious is more accurate.
30. You can field strip a M-14 in 17 seconds.
31. You can do the above blindfolded.
32. When someone calls you sir you make the comment "I work for a living".
33. When someone says you spin a gun you correct them to say "it's a M-1 Grand
10 pounds" and then you go into the full history.
34. People think you're a diabetic because of the pokes on your finger from pinning on new decorations.
35. You find yourself saying rappelling is an art.
36. You can tell what branch of service you’re in just by the way you roll your BDU's sleeves.
37. You press your civilian clothes.
38. When someone tells you to relax you go to Parade Rest
39. You automatically address adults known to you as “Sir” or “Madam”
40. You are not comfortable around other cadets until you know their rank
41. Visions of new exhibition drill moves dance in your head as you sleep
42. You salute yourself in the mirror to practice
43. If every girl was crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man you could put Hugh Heffner to shame
44. You brush your teeth and shave every morning in your shoes
45. You watch JAG, or other military shows correcting everything the stupid TV
people got wrong with the uniforms
46. Your shoes are so perfect you accidentally walked across water one time
47. You actually wrote a book of hints to keeping your uniform perfect
48. You came up with and taught to your unit a jingle to memorize the Chain of Command
49. You burst out sobbing when the team immediately before you executes an amazing, flawless, stunning routine
50. You can keep your military bearing through a hurricane and a volcano… together
51. Your family needs to give you permission before you will eat
52. Your room is covered with drill manuals and DVD's of drill teams
53. You use hooah, Oorah, or Hooyah in everyday conversation
54. Your hands move in small circular motions as if polishing boots when you sleep.
55. Your pet stands at attention when you pass.
56. You give your uniform a rank and name.
57. Your locker is crammed with shoe polish, brass, uniform, decorations, and manuals for inspection.
58. You love your boots more than your girlfriend.
59. Since you've graduated, you've inspected your program twice and been a guest speaker for a day.
60. When noob Armed Drill Team cadets from other AFJROTC schools proclaim there rifle weights 13, or even 16lbs.
61. Whenever you do the pledge you call the respective room to attention (ROTC or not)
62. In civilian clothes you still act like your in military uniform while saying the pledge.
63. Your only goal in life is to be captain of the Drill Team/Color Guard.
64. When you go to the Ren. Fair, the only thing you look for is Sabers and Excalibur styled AF Honor guard Swords.
65. You would rather ask your SASI to wear your ROTC/JROTC uniform to prom instead of a tuxedo.
66. You have seen the movie Patton more than once and can Quote it.
67. You actually know that Patton was about 1 foot shorter than in the movie and had a squeaky voice instead of a deep voice.
68. Your friends ask you to bring food for a party and you bring MRE's
69. You call those little ChefboyRDee's in the microwavable cups MRE's.
70. The only thing you can't hit 200 feet away with your BB gun is the neighbor’s cat.

Love it. I do correct T'V' military personell. Here are mine.
1.Your true love is your Springfield.
2.Your meaning of Blood in Blood out is the first time you got cut by your rifle and the last time(It'll never happen).
3.Your GF tinks your cheating on her when you talkig about your rifle.
3.You spend three hours putting creases in your CLass B shirt.
4. When your teacher says take a break you start doing Push-Ups.
5.When you Text your AI during school hurs and you both talk.
6.You know more about your SAI and AI than you do about your parents.
That's it can't do it any more. Love the thread.

[AlphaNovember]

- When your friends ask you classified information about the government, as if you know it (and are allowed to tell them, anyway).

[flyBoy2010]

I love it.

6. When people ask what drill team is, you go into a long and detailed description of drill team AND color guard

You forgot "the difference between armed and unarmed drill."

177. When you ask your SASI if you could take home a practice drill rifle and you take it to school the next morning and then a random bus driver driving down the street calls the cops

That has actually happened to a friend of mine.

[Armed Drill Addict]

Originally Posted by navytrooper

164. Your ASI actually refers to said cadets by nicknames on a regular basis.
174. You spend or want to spend more time there than at home
175. You get sent to the grog bowl for talking shop...during English class.
176. You spend all your Christmas money on things for your Honor Guard
198. When the ONLY people you hang out with outside school are fellow JROTC cadets.

These make me feel like an addict. My name is ****** and i'm a Drillaholic.

[navytrooper]

-When you run naked out of the shower and write down an AWESOME new cadence you just thought up.