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EMC45
04-02-2014, 10:18 AM
......I was being awakened by a trashcan kicked down an open bay barracks and being called EVERY name in the book! I was also being reminded by my new alarm clock that SHE was not my %*@#ing mother and you better get your *#@$% outta my racks!!!!! This woman turned out to be the devil in flesh from NYC courtesy of Jamaica with a 2nd Class PO crow on her sleeve.

Bohica793
04-02-2014, 10:27 AM
And I would have to imagine that you are a damned sight better from the experience. Thank you for serving, my friend.

Crank
04-02-2014, 10:34 AM
EMC,
The joys of boot camp! I remember joining the Navy at the tender age of 34, I was older than my RDC's:lol:. I loved my time in and now I still get to play Navy, but I don't have to wear the uniform anymore or stand duty. Thanks to the way they are training sailors now (lack of), I have absolute job security no matter how much they threaten to scale back. They can't call you those nasty names anymore because it might hurt your feelings and GOD FORBID! you should receive any "bulkhead counselling". Thanks for your service!

Mark

WallyM3
04-02-2014, 10:44 AM
This month, 43 years ago.

AlaskanGuy
04-02-2014, 10:56 AM
Next month, 38 years ago, usmc.... And then again 34 years ago, USRA..... And I cant imagine how things have changed... No cussing???? I wonder if our enemy's know that cussing is not allowed if somebody gets captured??. And no inappropriate touching either... I am sure our enemy's wont want to offend us if one of our guys gets captured... Total BS of being politically correct.... When I was in the usmc, the DS could whack ya if he felt the need.... Shortly after i graduated from bootcamp at camp Pendleton, a recruit was beaten pretty bad by a DI, and the corp outlawed that sort of thing....

To me, fighting men should know how to fight, and taking a few licks was just part of knowing what to expect, and how to deal with it.... Just like dealing with the gas mask training.... If a person knows what to expect, through experience, it is so much easier to deal with...

Just my opinion... Dont flame me...

AG

NavyVet1959
04-02-2014, 10:58 AM
Wow... Nearly 35 years ago. Time sure flies. Still have my old pea-coat. My wife wears it now and it still looks brand new. Still use my old seabags and flight bags as lightweight luggage for those times when I can't afford the weight penalty of those heavy commercial pieces of luggage with the metal frames and wheels on them.

HollandNut
04-02-2014, 11:17 AM
40 years this year , boot in Orlando 1974 ..

Filipino EN1 Ilagan , we were his first company ..

retired 94

cattleskinner
04-02-2014, 11:58 AM
You guys are old, this year makes 13 years ago since I got to experience that kind of fun.

crazy mark
04-02-2014, 12:02 PM
July will be 45 years ago. Had BTC Buehler at Alameda. They has a 1st clss DI who marched his boots into the estuary in their dress blues. He got busted down to E-3 and sent to an ice breaker. He was one mean sucker. I hated the 0100 wake ups to go down to the grinder dressed a certain way only to be told by another DI that you had the wrong clothes on.

DxieLandMan
04-02-2014, 12:03 PM
21 years ago, Ft. Knox.

ghh3rd
04-02-2014, 12:11 PM
62 years ago in July - I was born an Air Force brat. (-:

Thanks everyone for your service to our country!

Dframe
04-02-2014, 12:24 PM
I'm not a veteran but want to extend a sincere thanks to ALL of you guys who served!

EMC45
04-02-2014, 12:55 PM
OS2 Cousins (Devil in flesh) and RM2 Pritchett, who wasn't all that bad. It was Great Lakes Il. I would often ask (when permitted) how all the fleet classes I was taking would equate to the Seabees and the instructors would tell me they didn't or to shut up. Play the game and don't let them learn your name.

shdwlkr
04-02-2014, 02:05 PM
45 years ago Ft Jackson South Carolina
Let the good time roll

Hawkeye45
04-02-2014, 02:32 PM
May1, 1964 Lackland AFB medic. Thank you all for your service.

Mr. Ed

Bad Water Bill
04-02-2014, 02:42 PM
58 years ago in June.

Good OLD Great Lakes.

Last night I found my flight crew certification card for the R5D-4.

Expiration date is INDEFINITE.

Wonder if I could still fly as crew?

jcwit
04-02-2014, 02:52 PM
49 years ago on the 13 of April 1965, 2 days after the Palm Sunday Tornadoes hit my home county of Elkhart Indiana.

owejia
04-02-2014, 03:55 PM
48 years ago third of April, Ft. Benning , Ga. Some things you will never forget.Pine trees and sand.

jaystuw
04-02-2014, 04:22 PM
39 years ago this 27th of April, Ft. Polk La. And yeah, I will never forget it either. Pine trees, sand, The hot, muggy weather, thunderstorms, open bay barracks, crazy drill sargeants.

Infantry basic training and advanced training (or whatever they called it) in the same company with the same drill instructors. What a way to spend a summer. Jay

Dale in Louisiana
04-02-2014, 04:24 PM
Forty-six years ago this coming August, Fort Bliss, Texas. Can you picture training for 'jungle warfare' in the middle of the West Texas desert?

Then in December of 1970 I got to pay it forward when I became a drill sergeant at Fort Polk, Louisiana.

dale in Louisiana
(Army 1968-77)

bstone5
04-02-2014, 04:37 PM
49 years ago USMC San Diego Boot Camp

eveready
04-02-2014, 04:44 PM
52 years ago, Fort Gordon Ga. Pine trees, sand, snakes and bugs.

wch
04-02-2014, 04:58 PM
21 years ago, Ft. Knox.

52 years ago- up Agony, down Misery!

GOPHER SLAYER
04-02-2014, 05:01 PM
HAH! Bunch of teeny boppers. I was sworn into the U.S. Navy 62 years ago this coming July. I joined the Navy to see the world and got no further than San Diego, Ca. I spent the first four weeks of boot camp in a place called Camp Elliott in the desert in July and August. It was hot. After that we were taken to Naval Training Center San Diego. The weather was great. After boot camp some of us were loaded into a ninety foot motor launch and taken across the bay to Naval Air Station, North Island. I spent three years there at the boat house. I saw no more of the world than I had seen before I had joined the Navy. Some of the boats I served on were sea recuse boats so [ we called them crash boats but the pilots didn't like that term] I can tell the guys looking for the downed air liner, if you can't find an oil slick, forget it.

Czech_too
04-02-2014, 05:42 PM
It's going on 44 years since I got that much anticipated letter in the mail, aka draft notice. Hadn't really thought about it much till now. Some good memories & some bad.

Polecat
04-02-2014, 06:14 PM
52 years Fort Polk basic I only live thirty miles north of there and I didn't know there was that much sand and sand burrs in Louisiana, then to Fort Bragg to th 1st MI attached to March Air Base to the 332 Recon. squadren. Had a good time.

Friends call me Pac
04-02-2014, 06:24 PM
Yesterday was my 9th year of retirement from active duty and 13 years retirement from active duty for my wife. She always had one stripe more than I did. Never did catch up.

hardcase54
04-02-2014, 06:32 PM
51 years ago US Army Security Agency for 4 really good years. (Mostly good)

William Yanda
04-02-2014, 06:34 PM
43 years ago 6 April. Drafted as an"extended priority", Draft suspended in June, abolished in September. Oh yes AIT at Ft Polk in July and August. Those sure were the good old days.

cbrick
04-02-2014, 06:44 PM
Didn't think about it until I saw this thread.

46 years ago yesterday I joined a whole bunch of guys for some really fun times at MCRD San Diego.

Rick

deep creek
04-02-2014, 06:44 PM
jan 6 1966 two weeks in ord then basic and ait at leonardwood.june 11 1966 camp alpha then to phan rang.forty eight years,some times it feels like yesterday!

fatnhappy
04-02-2014, 07:39 PM
9 days from now will mark 26 years. Ft Benning GA. D 2/58 IN
Made E-6 under 6. I wore a shoe on the other foot as a drill.

runfiverun
04-02-2014, 07:45 PM
joined when I was 17 they made me wait till I was 18 to go to Lackland.
I was just getting outta basic training in feb of 1983, they let me go home permanently the winter of 1992.
with a few broken bones, torn ligaments muscles and tendons, some seriously wore down joints, and a little deafness.... along the way.

CastingFool
04-02-2014, 07:54 PM
43 yrs ago this august. Basic training at Ft. Knox. Went up and down Misery, Agony, and Heartbreak a few times, the funny thing is that I was not even aware of doing it. I thought basic training was fun. Maybe because I got picked as a squad leader. Ended up serving 3 yrs active and 22 in the Guard.

xs11jack
04-02-2014, 08:56 PM
I went to Ft. Knox too. 49 yrs ago, ended up teaching electronics at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and sending all of my classes to Nam. Depressing. Still am.
Ole jack

gew98
04-02-2014, 09:22 PM
29 years ago..Ft Benning ... Infantry..... say no more.

catmandu
04-02-2014, 09:35 PM
34 years ago last month I got to leave the Island. I didn't know South Carolina had any islands, or sharks, or what a sand flea was. Got to meet my new mother and father and feel the love of my new family. Everybody thought I was nuts, second best decision I ever made. Semper First.

Paul in WNY

kfarm
04-02-2014, 09:39 PM
46 years ago this april got my first commercial plane ride to FT Polk LA in a DC3. At 19 it was my first time off the farm, into the big ole cruel world

SciFiJim
04-02-2014, 10:08 PM
30 years ago last January the Navy became a new way of life for me. I went to boot camp in Orlando. I had a sister company with actual females. We shared class rooms with them. The first couple of weeks without make up they looked pretty plain. After about a month, the starting looking pretty good. I am very glad I did it, but was ready to get out when I did four years later.

Ed Barrett
04-02-2014, 10:54 PM
52 years ago at Great Lakes. Had an E-8 Chief named Burns that made things memorable.

Menner
04-02-2014, 11:43 PM
30 yrs ago this May Great Lakes and I know that trash can SR Chief Machinist Mate as CC

Frank46
04-02-2014, 11:56 PM
Enlisted in 1964 after high school. Still remember Bosun's Mate first class Hickey. He was from NY and hated everybody. Sorta like dirty harry except he wore blues. Kinda funny back then as when I applied for a job at Lafayette Radio in Jamaica NY the first question they asked what was your draft status. Think it was 4A after having served. Had to explain that one to her. Thinking on it now was kinda weird telling her I was just 21 and a vet. Lotta years ago. The Lafayette Radio job lasted a whole week. We were hired as pickers and stock boys. Called them up and told them I quit. And went back to sleep. My dad was really ticked off about that. Frank

NavyVet1959
04-03-2014, 12:10 AM
52 years ago at Great Lakes. Had an E-8 Chief named Burns that made things memorable.

I'm actually surprised that some people can remember their DI or Company Commander from when they took boot camp. I've always been pretty bad on names and I truly suspect that I would not have remembered my CC's name a month after boot camp, much less now after all these years. Hell, I actually strained a brain cell just trying to remember what I had for dinner yesterday.

"The good thing about Alzheimer's is waking up next to a new woman woman every morning. The bad thing is not being able to remember what to do with her."

bruce drake
04-03-2014, 12:12 AM
This Christmas Day will be 25 years since I stepped on the yellow footprints at Boot Camp on Parris Island.

Iowa Fox
04-03-2014, 01:35 AM
Will be 47 years ago in June for me.

gmsharps
04-03-2014, 02:24 AM
This coming Aug will be 45 for me.

gmsharps

Boyscout
04-03-2014, 02:52 AM
"..."I" died February 2, 1982" as soon as I stepped of the bus and on to the yellow footprints at Quantico, VA 32 years ago. Would do it all over again if I could. Semper Fi.

merlin101
04-03-2014, 03:36 AM
37 years ago come May 15 I greeted by Drill Sargent Plank at Ft. Sill OK.

Bloodman14
04-03-2014, 04:13 AM
Coming up on 26 years ago, this June 3rd. "YOU GOT 10 SECONDS TO GET OFF MY BUS AND 9 OF THEM ARE GONE!!!" Well, Good Morning to you, Drill Sergeant Andrews. Harmony Church, Ft. Benning, Ga.

472x1B/A
04-03-2014, 05:45 AM
Ah yes, a fresh new summer has just began. June 29, 1970 started my new journey of life. 13 assingments later and it's all over. Wow, 44 years ago this June.

DLCTEX
04-03-2014, 06:58 AM
47 years ago I had finished basic at Ft. Polk and was three weeks into artillery school at Ft. Sill.

w5pv
04-03-2014, 07:09 AM
55 years ago,Ft Hood TX.
You guy's make me feel my age,The last time I was at FT Benning my son was finishing boot camp in the old Sand Hill area and I had a nephew at Harmony Church Area at the same time about 1988.

captaint
04-03-2014, 07:12 AM
September 1969. I loved Ft. Benning. I'd like to go back some day. Although I think Sand Hill was "taken out of service" years ago. Mike

Rick N Bama
04-03-2014, 07:16 AM
47 years ago I had finished Basic at Lackland & was at Sheppard AFB for Tech School. I wonder if my old TI, TSgt Powell, is still living.

trapper9260
04-03-2014, 07:24 AM
Sign up at age 17 in 78 for the navy and went active duty in 79 after one week out of high school and got off of active duty in 83 and then inactive res. in 84 and try active res from 88 to 90

SSGOldfart
04-03-2014, 07:28 AM
You guys are old, this year makes 13 years ago since I got to experience that kind of fun.


Humm does kinda make you feel Old I started in 68 and got done in 88

Or maybe your just still wet behind the ears Hummm Kids these days have no ideal

avogunner
04-03-2014, 07:38 AM
In June, it will be 35 years since I took that train to Parris Island, SC.
2ndBn Plt 2045
SDI SSgt Brown
DI Sgt Willey
DI Sgt Hoke

Semper Fi!

AlaskanGuy
04-03-2014, 11:03 AM
Any of you USMC folk that went to camp Pendleton ever have to climb up mount mother fcker (official name is mount smokey)??? I remember climbing that dang rock in full gear, and also a couple times at night, once in my underwear...lol... That hill had a ton of tarantula's and rattlers....lol... Good training... [smilie=1:

cbrick
04-03-2014, 11:18 AM
I spent a year and half at Pendleton. That's where I learned what an M-14 does to them tarantula's. :mrgreen:

Rick

Bulldogger
04-03-2014, 01:00 PM
Twenty fours years since RTC Orlando this June, arrived there the day after HS graduation at 17yo. Made it 14 years down the road but had to leave for health (and sanity). Will never forget doing pushups on the black asphalt grinder in 100 degrees and full sun with a rifle held across your hands to keep it off the deck. Blistered hands anyone?
Would have to think a while to remember the CCs names, but probably could with some struggling, EMC and an EM1 I do recall. And whenever I'm running in place for some odd reason, in the back of my mind I always hear the shouted order "Swan Dive!". Interesting times.

EMC45
04-03-2014, 01:09 PM
My actual first day of USN enlistment was 01 April. I got to Great Mistakes late that night and handed out PT gear and the essential other sundries to all the recruits getting off the buses that night. I went to the rack at about 0300 (on 2 April) and was woke up by my nice new friend at around 0400. I remember sleeping standing up my first day. It wasn't terrible, it wasn't great. 9 weeks later I went to Gulfpit Ms for "A School" for 13 weeks. I saw my RDC OS2 Cousins (devil in flesh) down there in the NEX. She was in town visiting her cousin and was on base. Another classmate told me she was in the NEX and we went down there and saw her. He hit the deck and started pushing them out and she yelled at him "Get up you retard!!" She looked at me and asked me "Are you f@#$%ng up my Navy?" I said "no Petty Officer". She looked at me and said "I remember you, you were the crazy one"....That is a true story. She questioned my mental acuity after "liberty weekend" when I showed up back to the barracks with gun magazines (imagine that). She saw magazines in my raincoat pocket and said "I thought I told you no dirty magazines?!!" "Empty your pockets retard!" She saw they were gun magazines and she looked me dead in the eye and said "You're crazy". On "liberty weekend" She came up to me and my Dad in the drill hall and said "you gonna be rude or are you gonna introduce me to your family?" I did the introduction and devil in flesh says "I bet your poor son wrote letters home saying how hard it was and how he missed you and home?" my Dad replied with "he actually sent home letters saying how easy it all was and how you guys had nothing on him" (which I didn't!).....She looked at me and said "I have you for 2 more days, I am gonna kill you". I also remember on one pair of my dungarees the sewing ladies sewed my name on upside down on my pocket. I tried to see how long I could go without anyone noticing. Well I get called up front in front of Cousins and Pritchett and Cousins (devil) looks at me and says "the Navy must be letting retards in now. Are you a retard recruit?" "No Petty Officer". "If you don't get those dungarees fixed I will PT you until I get tired retard! NOW GET OUTTA MY FACE!!!!!!!!!"

EMC45
04-03-2014, 01:11 PM
I truly thank everyone of you for your Service. I always knew I was in good company.

Blammer
04-03-2014, 01:18 PM
28yrs ago for me, San Diego

leadman
04-03-2014, 04:27 PM
I also swore in on April 1, but it was 1971. Found out real fast it was not a joke.

gspgundog
04-03-2014, 08:31 PM
43 years this November Plt 3215 MCRD San Diego. I can not remeber what I had for dinner last Sunday but for some reason my service number is still with me 2629043.

bikerbeans
04-04-2014, 07:23 AM
It will be 41 years on June 29th. Note to self, don't go to boot camp in Florida during July and August. I was quite happy when galvanized metal trash cans were replaced with plastic cans. If I close my eyes, I can still hear than dang metal can bouncing down the tile floor of the barricks! The two guys from Chicago that attacked the 1st Class who tossed the trash can the first morning didn't get to finish boot camp in my company.

BB

HollandNut
04-04-2014, 02:15 PM
Time of year didn't matter in Orlando , we graduated in early December in dress blues and 90+ temps , left there for Great Mistakes two weeks later and the had a huge snow storm going on

41 mag fan
04-05-2014, 07:54 AM
27 yrs ago...Good Lord the time has flown by.
My drill Sgt's were almost pleading after the 2 weeks of hell time for us to do PT, ect.
The Drill Sgts were on their last rotation out...
But my group was the first one who were the "no smoking" in basics.
The drill Sgts on the last day of basics actually took pies from the mess hall and chased a few of the guys around throwing them at them...
I loved basics, hated AIT and permanent party.
I should of went special forces who were out on training 8 mo or more a year...too much down time for me

upr45
04-05-2014, 09:23 AM
37 years & a few months ago GLakes. Had a first time cc. Boot has a breeze. Electricians School went fast & able to get home most weekends. Nuc school at Orlando in 77, don't even know if the base is still there? NPTU in Idaho -- first time there was a challenge to the learning process(12 hr shifts until you were "qualified"). Then to an east coast CGN. Wrecked a lot of atoms while on that ship! Saw the world, got out after a minimum 6. Came home, worked a commercial nuc a few years, transferred to a different department, got married, 2 kids. Have had a few of Rickovers misguided children in my department that escaped the nuc world.

HollandNut
04-05-2014, 12:30 PM
Orlando has long since shut down , remember the nuc school there

Knew several guys on CGN's outta Norfolk , I almost ended up on one

fecmech
04-05-2014, 01:49 PM
53 years ago this October, Lackland AFB.

RKJ
04-05-2014, 02:47 PM
40 years ago in September. Fort Knox (I sure do remember Agony, Misery & Heartbreak) SSG Jones and SSG Humphries. I had Humpries in Reception Station as my "Welcoming DI and right before we marched over to BC he came up to me in the ranks (in my face, y'all remember) and told me that he was going with me to BC and he would be watching me, if I f'd up he would be there and would have my a**. I did and he did. :) I spent three years at Knox, got out, came back home, got married and 8 years after arriving at Knox for Army BC(almost to the day of arriving at Knox I'm standing at RTC San Diego (Hollywood) R&O waiting for some PO to start yelling at me and thinking "what did I do? Retired in 99, as a RMC.

SeabeeMan
04-05-2014, 02:48 PM
13 years ago at Great Lakes. Same story as I saw earlier...none of it applied to being a Seabee. Then off to Fort Lost in the Woods, MO for a few months and off to see the world.

Bodydoc447
04-05-2014, 02:57 PM
34 years ago last January, the years sure do speed on by.

Doc

HollandNut
04-05-2014, 03:32 PM
I knew several who came to the Navy from the Army .. They made you go thru basic after Army time ?? Most guys went thru indoc at one of the boot camp bases , but not the actual boot camp itself ..

Retired in 94 GMCS

NavyVet1959
04-05-2014, 09:18 PM
37 years & a few months ago GLakes. Had a first time cc. Boot has a breeze. Electricians School went fast & able to get home most weekends. Nuc school at Orlando in 77, don't even know if the base is still there?

I was in Orlando about 10 years ago and tried to find the base there. It took awhile, but I finally found it. They had destroyed most of it and it was just a bunch of dirt. I seem to remember that the hospital building was still over there near a lake though. I'm going to be in Irvine and San Diego on business over the next few weeks and I'm going to see if I can find the remains of the Navy Boot Camp and see what (if anything) is left. I've looked on Google Maps and there appears to still be some buildings left there, but they look a lot better than what I remembered boot camp looking like.

HollandNut
04-05-2014, 09:59 PM
wasn't the EM club in front of a lake as well ??

I recall there were ten "battalions" along that long walk way , four on either side and one on each end , I was in Batt V at one of the ends , there was a tall fence and highway across the fence .. I think the females were in the Batt at the other end

We were a very short march to the grinder from Batt V

backhoe
04-05-2014, 10:09 PM
42 years ago this past Feb. Ft. Dix N.J.

Para82
04-05-2014, 10:36 PM
35 years ago this July for me. Ft Knox Ky. I remember Agony, Heartbreak and Misery well! Then to Ft Benning Ga and on to Ft Bragg NC.

NavyVet1959
04-06-2014, 12:14 AM
wasn't the EM club in front of a lake as well ??

I don't remember, it's been too many years. I was stationed there and Pensacola for awhile before I reported to Norfolk for a ship that had been in dry dock for a refit. At least I think that was their reasoning behind me not going directly to the ship. Was TAD doing a MAA post for awhile. The most useful thing I learned was how to pick the locks on handcuffs.

missionary5155
04-06-2014, 03:59 AM
Good morning
This is a fine Brotherhood ! Armor 71-74.
Mike in Peru

HollandNut
04-06-2014, 09:31 AM
was on shore duty in Pcola at the brig from 79-81 .. what ship were you headed to in the armpit of Norfolk ?

RKJ
04-06-2014, 01:16 PM
was on shore duty in Pcola at the brig from 79-81 .. what ship were you headed to in the armpit of Norfolk ?


AW, Norfolk wasn't that bad (if you stayed away from Oceanside, and Portsmouth ship yards) I did two different boats there, John F. Kennedy CV-67 (89-92) and Kearsarge LHD3 (97-99). We lived on the Peninsula and fought the tunnel every day, fun times

HollandNut
04-06-2014, 02:13 PM
Oh you were over with the big dogs at NOB , me I was over at D&S piers .. We lived in Grafton my first sea tour and Va Beach the second sea tour .. I hated Norfolk , to close to NOB flags and DC flags ..

My first Med cruise was when Belknap ran under JFK , that was bad , we had all the cans and cruisers in a fire line , running alongside and hosing them down , circling around and coming back to do it again .. There were also a couple Russky cans in that fire line , but of course that was never reported here ..

Was the gator at NOB or Little Creek ? Know NOB had some Gators , the LHA's were there I recall

Bad Water Bill
04-06-2014, 02:23 PM
To all of you YOUNG guys.

Is "EASY MAIN " still serving beer in Norfolk?

472x1B/A
04-06-2014, 09:03 PM
Any Air Force people here ever stationed at U-Tapao Thailand? ( B-52's & KC's ) If you were do you remember the snake in the cage next to the AGE shop?

NavyVet1959
04-06-2014, 09:11 PM
was on shore duty in Pcola at the brig from 79-81 .. what ship were you headed to in the armpit of Norfolk ?

One of types of ship that most people try to avoid because when they cook for 6000 guys at a time, the food is guaranteed not to be good... :)

bbs70
04-06-2014, 09:36 PM
70 to 72
Fort lost in the woods, Mo for basic.
Ft. Sill for arty training.
South Korea for remainder of time in Army.
Can truly only remember 1 of the sergeants I had, he was First Sgt Fuqua, guess you all can see why I remember his name.

Nothing like being on the DMZ in the winter in Korea or the sewage smells of early spring.

Bad Water Bill
04-06-2014, 09:44 PM
The USS? Randolph (CVA 15) had to be the worst feeder in the entire military.

The Navy gave the supply officer $1.25 per sailor per day for food.

The supply officer in charge must have put in a request for every WOODEN barrel of salt pork still available starting around 1945.

He ended up spending .87 per sailor and sending the rest of the money ?????

You know he got a big promotion but many of us can not look at pork to this day.

Powdered potatoes,powdered milk 2 slices of plain bread served with a cold slab of salt pork every main meal for 6 months will do that.

NavyVet1959
04-06-2014, 11:15 PM
The USS? Randolph (CVA 15) had to be the worst feeder in the entire military.

The Navy gave the supply officer $1.25 per sailor per day for food.

The supply officer in charge must have put in a request for every WOODEN barrel of salt pork still available starting around 1945.

He ended up spending .87 per sailor and sending the rest of the money ?????

You know he got a big promotion but many of us can not look at pork to this day.

Powdered potatoes,powdered milk 2 slices of plain bread served with a cold slab of salt pork every main meal for 6 months will do that.

Well, let's just say that the best fried chicken that I ever had aboard ship turned out to be rabbit. I got down to the bones and I'm like, "what the 'ell part of the the chicken is *this*?"... Someone then informed me that that it was rabbit. Should have know something was up when there was some meat between the skin and the bones. Now, the omelets weren't that bad though. Then again, it was the first time I ever had omelets, so it wasn't like I really had anything to compare them to. From what I gathered, it wasn't so much the actual *food*, but rather just the fact that they were cooking for some many people at one time. Supposedly, the Chief's Mess and the Officer's Mess used the same food, but since it was cooked for a smaller number of people, it was quite a bit better. Not having ever had the privilege to eating in either, I cannot confirm that rumor.

Parson
04-06-2014, 11:24 PM
Platoon 146, MCRD, 52 years ago

NavyVet1959
04-06-2014, 11:31 PM
Ft. Sill for arty training.
South Korea for remainder of time in Army.

I was in Ft Sill about 18 months ago. Was driving around, looking at the base and 2 elks ran across the road in front of me. Huge animals -- first time I have ever seen one in person. All we have is whitetail deer in most of the places where I've lived and hunted. Was in Osan about a year ago. Didn't have an "international driver's license", so couldn't rent a car and explore. Was stuck to places served by their train system. I'm definitely not a fan of Korean food. Ended up eating bulgogi at nearly every meal -- minus all the fermented veggie side dishes. Actually, my favorite place to eat was right outside the main gate. There were some street venders that had some tempura fried shrimp. If I had just had some ketchup, it would have been perfect. :)

skeettx
04-06-2014, 11:36 PM
5 Dec 1948 USS REPOSE
Tsingtao, China
I was Born

27 May 1971
I was commissioned a 2LT

15 July 1995
Retired, yeee hawww

starreloader
04-06-2014, 11:42 PM
Sgt. Goodnight welcomed me to Parris Island on June 28th, 1965 with a "GET OFF OF MY F""""ING BUS" before I throw you off.. The guy had a really short vocabulary of very choice words!!!... 13 weeks was a long time with him and his use of words didn't change much... Metal trash cans, foot lockers, racks, there nothing and no-one that was safe from SGT GOODNIGHT's kind attention!!! To this day I still feel the Marines lost a good man in mid September of 1967, he was KIA....

462
04-07-2014, 12:30 AM
April 27, 1967. Amarillo Air Force Base for basic. Lowry AFB in Denver for tech school. Luke AFB in Phoenix for OJT. Phan Rang AB RVN for the real thing. George AFB in Victorville, Ca. to finish up.

Good times. Bad times. No regrets.

HollandNut
04-07-2014, 12:44 AM
Yeah happened to lots of good marines , unfortunately you probably didn't realize he was a good one when you were honored with his presence .. I'm sure he turned out lots of good marines , ma's uncle was pushing marine boots when WW2 broke out and long story short , he went with his last group overseas and he was near retirement

QUOTE=starreloader;2723776]Sgt. Goodnight welcomed me to Parris Island on June 28th, 1965 with a "GET OFF OF MY F""""ING BUS" before I throw you off.. The guy had a really short vocabulary of very choice words!!!... 13 weeks was a long time with him and his use of words didn't change much... Metal trash cans, foot lockers, racks, there nothing and no-one that was safe from SGT GOODNIGHT's kind attention!!! To this day I still feel the Marines lost a good man in mid September of 1967, he was KIA....[/QUOTE]

EMC45
04-07-2014, 10:06 AM
Bulgogi, Kimchi? YUM!!!!!

bbs70
04-07-2014, 11:52 AM
Kimchi, still remember the smell after 42 years.
Rotten cabbage, the whole country smelled of it.

Makgeolli, I remember some of the S. Korean army (Katusa) working with us coming in after a weekend of drinking.
Man you don't want to stand in front of them when they're talking.
Then those days when they had been drinking & eating Kinchi, whew what a smell.

HollandNut
04-07-2014, 12:00 PM
Kimchi , **** would gag a maggot

BWB , if Randolph was still in when you were , you were way ahead of my butt , when I arrived in NorVa in 1974 , they still had the signs up for dogs ands sailors to keep off the grass , and the strip was still just outside D&S gate and NOB gates

tchepone
04-07-2014, 12:06 PM
Hardcase54:
Ever make it to a remote base called Wakkanai Japan? I remember a couple ASA guys there.

lbaize3
04-07-2014, 02:58 PM
Fifty-one years ago this June......:-)

HollandNut
04-07-2014, 05:58 PM
lbaize my best friend was on swifties 69-70 , Agent Orange did him in four years ago ..

Beau Cassidy
04-07-2014, 09:47 PM
Almost 27 years to the day for me. Ft. McClellan, Alabama