Allegiance to Pledge

Submitted by John Morgan

How many of you sat in your shower on field day scrubbing at soap scum just to have your NCO give you the negative on it and tell you to do it all again?  This wonderful spray, which is available at your PX or even the mini-mart, saved me from many field day failures and weekend lib secures.  Just spray it onto the wall of the shower and then shine dry with a cotton towel.  (Make sure you take the soap scum off first.)  The inspector won't be able to get anything off the shower wall, even with a razor blade.  For any follow-on field days, just lightly wash the shower wall and repeat the application of Pledge.  Knocks your time spent on the shower from 45 minutes down to five.  I couldn't have done without it.

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Comments

[Andrew]

I used this in AIT for buffing the floors. The DI just about slipped on the floor!

[Jeffrey D. Dorfman, USNR-RETIRED]

This is an old but true way of getting through that barracks inspection. When I was in "A" school at NATTC, Memphis TN, back in 1970, we had a "BAD ASS" chief who loved to find things to fail you on inspection on field day. After using Pledge to clean the light fixtures (one of his favorite places to catch you on) I thought, why not use it to pick up the last minute dust on the floor after all the buffing and polishing was done. So I lightly went over the floor on my hands and knees, backing up as I wiped the deck. When the Chief stepped into our cubicle, he slipped and landed on his backside and luckily did not get seriously injured. He did limp for a couple of weeks, though. Anyway, he passed us on our inspection after checking places I didn't even know existed and we got our liberty that weekend. Needless to say, the Chief was even more diligent in trying to find dirt or dust in every ensuing inspection till I graduated 9 months later.

[Roger]

I was in the fire service for 15 years and I used this stuff on the truck tires prior to parades. (But you HAVE to clean 'em good.)

[Gerry]

When I got sent to my first duty station, my roomates had a collection of 70 Playboy pinups on the walls. WE got "Excellent" grades on weekly inspections.