>>713505715
>I get driven around like somebody important.
Same bro.
When I was in service it was really rare for someone there not to have driven anything ever (but then again being a virgin or a non alcohol drinker was rare too), and we got trained on humvees and lmtv's and a tracked transport.
Shit took like 5 minutes per joe, a sergeant sat next to each of us, showed what part makes it go forward, made us do a lap, boom we were licensed for that vehicle.
That was my first time driving. I stressed a bit and stumbled around trying to start it but didn't fuck up too hard so the sgt took it like "Heh bigger than the shitboxes you're used to eh?"
Didn't have to sit behind a wheel again for a year or so.
I was on staff duty this one time, a sergeant major needed transportation from battalion building to the field so they told me to gear up and take him there.
I sucked at driving so much the big guy probably had vietnam ptsd flashbacks next to me, so he asked me to swap places. I was stuck with him and he ended up driving me around for the rest of the day, and my job was to sit in the passenger seat of the humvee and guard it.
Ever since then I was known as the guy who's so important a sergeant major drives him around.