Reply #48: Never admit you're going to PLDC! [View All]

PLDC means Primary Leadership Development Course. It is the school you go to if you want to be a sergeant in the Army.

I always kept my hair looking like a German banker's. I figured that if I was somewhere terrorists attacked, I wouldn't get shot if I didn't look like an American soldier. And usually I went to this place off-post that cut lots of bankers' hair.

Then I came down on PLDC orders and figured I better get a PX haircut.

So I'm sitting there in the chair and the barber's like "but I never see you in here, why are you here?" Ol' dumbass Jim said "I'm going to PLDC and figured I'd get an Army haircut."

Oops.

Next thing you know, I look like a skinny Kojak. The wench shaved my fucking head. (And it's not like you can stop someone who's set on making you bald once the clippers hit your head; you'll either be bald or you'll have a crewcut so short the only way to recover is to shave it.) That night I went downtown to have some beers, and six places wouldn't let me in because they didn't serve skinheads. "Look, we know you're an American but if we let you in here everyone in the place will leave." So I went to a skinhead bar. Nice guys if you attempt to blend in.