16 years ago today

[snoopy_1]

I stepped onto those yellow footprints as I got off the bus at MCRD San Diego.

Semper Fi

 

[Typhoon1244]

I stepped onto those yellow footprints as I got off the bus at MCRD San Diego.

What the hell'd you do that for?

(Relax: kidding.)

Happy anniversary.

 

[Nolife]

So you're another slimy Hollywood Marine. Those Paris Island guys just don't know what they're missed. Fireworks at Seaworld while on firewatch... watching planes come and go wishing you were on one... Mt. Mother-F-er... ah the good old days.

 

[LJDRVR]

Seems like yesteday doesn't it? This May will be 18 years for me. I got a chance to vist Lackland AFB a few years ago. As I stood there looking at the recruit housing and training dormitories, several strong emotions washed over me. Nostalgia, but mostly the very strong and not expected realization of: "My god, I was SOOO young!

Semper Fi Bro.

 

[MetroSheriff]

June 9th will be 18 years for me, too.

I remember the yellow footprints at MCRD San Diego all too well.


Semper Fi

 

[FL717]

It was 29 August 1983 when I was told to "GET OFF THE BUS... MOVE!!" at MCRD San Diego.

As a "Hollywood Marine" we were issued suntan lotion, sunglasses and our own personal map of the stars.

OOO RAH!!

 

[jarhead]

 

[Mevans]

I stepped on the yellow footprints at the Island on August 15, 1981. Went back once in 1996, long after my discharge, I recommend every Marine to go back to the cradle once after they left. After 13 years of marriage ,I have even trained my wife to say Happy Birthday every November 10th.

 

[Caveman]

In July it will have been 28 years for me and sometimes it seems like just last summer. H@ll, I can't believe that next month I will have been retired for 7 years!

BTW, Marine Corps Recreational Depot San Diego is not where real Marines are trained. You have to go to Parris Island for that honor.

 

[snoopy_1]

Been gone a couple days at a job interview, thanks for the replys.

It does seem just like yesterday.


Semper Fi

 

[DAS at 10/250]

From an ex-Army guy who cut his teeth at Ft. Jackson, congrats to you and the others.

Jar head jokes about army pu@@ies may commence.............now.

 

[Typhoon1244]

From an ex-Army guy who cut his teeth at Ft. Jackson...

[Wistfully...] Ah, Fort Jackson. B-Co. 2/39th Inf. "Victory Starts Here!"

I would argue that nothing about Fort Jackson was "pussified." On the other hand, my platoon sergeant was an incredibly mean little woman from Texas...SFC Callie Jean Abrams. "Get down! Beat you face! Drop!"

Oh, and SSgtt Gonzales, whose accent was so thick, I once thought he wanted me to "get down an' do some pork chops [push-ups]."

(Pork chops? )

 

[DAS at 10/250]

Ah, another Lackson Jackson. Echo 1/61. Was it just me or did it seem like every run route went uphill!

 

[Typhoon1244]

Ah, another Lackson Jackson. Was it just me or did it seem like every run route went uphill!

That's not Fort Jackson, that's everywhere! Even Fort Gordon (Augusta, GA) had a hill waiting for us!

(I wish I was still in that kind of shape...any of you guys find yourselves a bit flabbier than you were when you graduated from basic?)

 

[DAS at 10/250]

I actually packed the weight on in AIT. Raytheon had the mess hall contract and everything was deep fried cow.

I still work out but I don't think I could score another 285 on the PFT!

Typhoon were you 30 series MOS?

 

[jarhead]

DAS at 10/250

Just curious about your MOS question. Is a "30" series MOS in The Army associated with infantry? In the Marine Corps, 0300 series is infantry, with 0301 being a basic 'rifleman'

 

[DAS at 10/250]

Sorry to hijack a Marine Corp. thread with some Army stuff.

No. The 30 series in the Army is usually Communications.

60 series (my old MOS) is Helicopter MX. Army infantry is 11 series. 11B is basic infantry and 11H is TOW operator, usually for the HMMWV.

We had some ex-Marine and ex-Navy guys in my old outfit. They were sheet metal, avionics, engines, etc. Great bunch of guys to work with and after years of sea duty they had a wealth of knowledge.

 

[jarhead]

Ahhh.....nice to know. My enlisted MOS was 1871 in the 1800 series MOS. 1800 series in the Corps when I served, was electronics. I was a ground radio repair technician for my first two years, fixing busted up radios in from tanks, to a PRC-6 in a grunt's back-pack Then in my last two years of a four year hitch, I got sent to the air side (El Toro----RIP), and did maintenance on the A-4 Skyhawk flight simulator. Can't for the life of me recall what the MOS number was for that gig.

 

[TonyC]

Can y'all repeat everything after DAS at 10/250's first post? I had trouble reading after that.


(There's a thread called Avatar War that you should visit, DAS)

 

[DAS at 10/250]

Just submitted my "candidate". Thanks for the link.