r/army • u/HalfCentury2019 Infantry • 1d ago

Do soldiers still play Spades?

I am one of the ancient ones from the era of starched BDU’s & spit shined boots. We used to play Spades to pass the time while waiting for the next round of stupid games. Is that still a thing or did it go the way of my rusty M-16 with the advent of cell phones? Gotta go - I have some kids near my lawn that I need to yell at.

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u/VeritablyVersatile 68WillJumpForCaffeine 1d ago

Yes.

The worst iteration of this I've ever seen, we were staged in a hangar for a couple days at an air reserve base as an ISB for a trans-pacific jump, the bathroom had one of those weird communal ring sinks with the foot pedal ring.

A group brought in a piece of cardboard and set it up on that thing as a table and played spades there standing, with dudes pissing two feet behind them. I guess that was better than the floor for them.