This saying in the Army is something that were there all the time in my time as a soldier. When soldiers tells a story then you will find them saying " no names no pack drill"
This mean that they want to tell about something that happened but they do not want to give the names of people and then use the words "no name no pack drill". They try and avoid getting into trouble because if they use the names someone can say "he said that" and they can get into a situation of doing pack drill.
Now what is pack drill? This is where you do something wrong and are disciplined and receive drill to get your discipline up. Normally you have to put on your backpack or the skeleton webbing with your helmet and go and do drill on the parade. A rifle is added for good measure.
It can become even nastier and you can get into a summary trail or even a court martial if you say things that is not true.
So if you want to tell a story you add the inevitable " no names no pack drill"
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