For those of you how did not serve at least in the Army the Annual General Inspection (AGI) was a nightmare. We would spend about 6 weeks preparing for it. No training, no ranges, no field time for about 6 weeks. You cleaned, painted and polished everything including the copper pipes under the sinks in the latrine! And they inspected everything. Training records, equipment, issue clothing, barracks, everything. There was no way to run normal operations and keep thing inspection ready. Was funny but in 77 while on my first tour of Germany and living in the barracks we could have pictures tapped to the inside doors of out wall lockers. Most guys had a few family wife/girlfriend pictures up. Night before the AGI room wall locker inspection I cut out pictures of cows from Hoards Dairyman Magazine (dad sent me a subscription) and had as many as I could fit in there. I was in a 4 man room. The inspecting office came in, full Col, and came to me first. He looked over my Class A uniform and found no deficiencies then stepped over to my wall locker. He look at one door then the other, turned and walked out of our room. We were the only room in the battalion that had no deficiencies for the inspection! My room mates wouldn't let me pay for a beer for a long time after that! Was pretty funny!
They finally realized the stupidity of a scheduled AGI and went to unannounced. Started with a 3AM alert that was graded as part of the inspection. It also, 1st day included PT test. No unit, Army wide passed first time through in a 3 year time period. So finally someone realized that the IG standards were ridiculous and they did away with the AGI. What they went to was a BN Cmd inspection every 3 months and one of those a year was conducted by BDE. All this came about in the mid 80's. They also came up with standards that allowed you to stay at least close to inspection ready.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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