This explains some of the idiocy of certain posters (Page 6): People who live in glass houses, etc. Did you really mean "far TOO angry?"...

Mr Shako Loc: Colo Spgs

Glaucon wrote:

Did you know, "angry american" That the word, American is capitalized? Perhaps you are far to angry.

People who live in glass houses, etc. Did you really mean "far TOO angry?"

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

slatten49 wrote:

What else, indeed! SEMPER FI, Autocthon.

You are one of the few...the proud. Glad to have you with us, however infrequently. :thumbup: :mrgreen:

BTW, Bruce Kennedy...I was a 'Hollywood Marine', also. :wink: Tanned and fit, we were! Hammock? :shock:

Semper Fi, slatten49! I was in Platoon 2031, February 1969.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Mr Shako wrote:

"Both parties have dinos that need to go...."

Well...at least John "jack-booted thugs" Dingell has decided to call it quits. Oh, wait...his old lady is going to run for his seat!

Man...you can't beat that s**t with an electric mixmaster!

On that I can agree. Our political class is starting to look like an aristocracy.

autocthon Loc: Batcave

Bruce Kennedy wrote:

Semper Fi, Mac. Were you a "Hollywood Marine", like me or did you go through PI? I tell people I was issued sun glasses and a hammock when I got to MCRD.

Sure was, 1964, plt 378, they were shooting Gomer Pyle while we were there.

rumitoid

I volunteered for the draft out of my exemption for a college student in '66. I served in Nam for 9 months, going home on an emergency leave because of my mother's health and never was sent back. I was discharged honorably and received all of my commendations for service. After which I drank alcoholically for fourteen years and was suicidal toward the end of that period, receiving treatment in the Ackerman Institute in NYC for six months. I am sober over thirty years now and only get crazy about football and my grandchild.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Bruce Kennedy wrote:

Semper Fi, slatten49! I was in Platoon 2031, February 1969.

Platoon 2384, October thru December, 1967. It snowed on us during our final physical fitness test...the only snow in San Diego history...at the time, I believe. We froze our globes and anchor off! :hunf: .... :mrgreen:

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

rumitoid wrote:

I volunteered for the draft out of my exemption fo... (show quote)

Not to worry, Rumi. Football and grandkids are acceptable forms of 'crazy'! With as many grandchildren as I have, I should be certifiably insane...or, maybe I am. :oops: :mrgreen:

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

autocthon wrote:

Sure was, 1964, plt 378, they were shooting Gomer Pyle while we were there.

I used to watch Gomer Pyle to see if they got the uniforms right.

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

slatten49 wrote:

Platoon 2384, October thru December, 1967. It snowed on us during our final physical fitness test...the only snow in San Diego history...at the time, I believe. We froze our globes and anchor off! :hunf: .... :mrgreen:

I feel like the young kid on the block. You and "autothon" were in the "Old Corps", compared to me. I was in the newly constructed three story barracks. Only did one week in the Quonset Huts after going to Edson range to qualify, with M-14s.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Bruce Kennedy wrote:

I feel like the young kid on the block. You and "autothon" were in the "Old Corps", compared to me. I was in the newly constructed three story barracks. Only did one week in the Quonset Huts after going to Edson range to qualify, with M-14s.

Did they have the 'ice plants' around your barracks?

I remember them surrounding the quonset huts. 8-)

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

rumitoid wrote:

I volunteered for the draft out of my exemption fo... (show quote)

Thank you for your service.

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

slatten49 wrote:

Did they have the 'ice plants' around your barracks?

I remember them surrounding the quonset huts. 8-)

Not around the barracks. Just cement. I remember one day after drilling our DI said we looked like a "herd of cattle" so we had to get down on all fours and not only crawl up three flights, of stairs, to our squad bay but we had to "moo" also. I was glad I could hang my head so no DI could see my face, I was laughing so hard.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Bruce Kennedy wrote:

Not around the barracks. Just cement. I remember one day after drilling our DI said we looked like a "herd of cattle" so we had to get down on all fours and not only crawl up three flights, of stairs, to our squad bay but we had to "moo" also. I was glad I could hang my head so no DI could see my face, I was laughing so hard.

That brings a smile to my face, due to a similar incident where I 'baaaaaa'ed' like a sheep, and got my head almost slapped off. What I thought was funny didn't set well with my D.I. Imagine that! :wink: :lol:

Bruce Kennedy Loc: Kansas

slatten49 wrote:

That brings a smile to my face, due to a similar incident where I 'baaaaaa'ed' like a sheep, and got my head almost slapped off. What I thought was funny didn't set well with my D.I. Imagine that! :wink: :lol:

:) I know they always acted like they didn't have a sense of humor. Yet they were comedians.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Bruce Kennedy wrote:

:) I know they always acted like they didn't have a sense of humor. Yet they were comedians.

Sure, in retrospect, they were hilarious. There was little humor in it at the time, though. :shock: