rumitoid

My shyness and lack of confidence evaporated. I had payed attention in Basic and did well. May have set a few records for PT at Fort Gorden, one likely was the one mile run. I was fresh from the University of Maryland off a track and field scholarship. Had a deferment but went to the local draft board and volunteered to be 1A. Not even a month later I was called to White Hall to be enlisted. I did that to think. Haha.

While a long line of new recruits for some test or another, a sergeant came down the line saying "1,2, 3 Marine." Being a little hungover from my going away party, I was unable to calculate if I was 3. I was not. Then they pulled me off line to see someone on the second floor. It was a psychiatrist. After a little banter, he finally asked about my haircut. Ar my going away party, about 3am, my sister started to give me a shorter haircut but got too sleepy and quit. So I was short and regular in my hairstyle. After I explained what had happened, unaware that I could be given a mental deferment, he abruptly demised me.

But my point is about the M-79 grenade launcher I was introduced to in AIT. I loved it, And was supernaturally good at using it. My drill sergeant would bring a cadre of other Drill Sergeants to watch me nail after nail after nail distant targets, never missing. My designated assignation as 11B was altered to 11C: mortar man. This eventually saved my life when I went overseas in 1967. While I thought it was my sure end.

Rose42

Why do you lie?

rumitoid

Haha, why do you assume your h**e for me is normal. If you can prove that I am lying, produce it. Otherwise you are an old and bitter fence yard gossip. Sad!

You come to all my threads just to insult or attempt to undermine me. A classic definition of Troll.

Rose42

I don’t h**e you. Pointing out you’re lying isn’t trolling. You can’t point your finger at anyone else. The question you need to ask yourself is is this really the person you want to be?

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Why do you assume anyone h**es you? I think you are phishing. I think you do this just to draw attention to yourself.

No one has to prove you are lying. And, I sure as hell don't care whether or not you are lying, but seems to me someone who underwent AIT training at an Army training center would at least know how to spell the name of the fort. The misspell ain't a typo.

rumitoid

How so and prove it. You are a wicked old hag with nothing of worth to say but your h**eful, snarky comments. You follow me from post to post to just personally attack me. Act intelligent and actually respond to some thread topic. I sense you are smart, show it.

rumitoid

Lol, it was fifty years ago. I even checked on google the name. Oops. It ain't a typo but a dumb mistake. And I am smart enough to know when I am being attacked. Something like insults are a hint.

Rose42

Ah, so you admit it then.

rumitoid

Duh! What are you talking about? Be clearer, please.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

This is the rest of your story!

“I scored well on all their tests and rejected all offers of something other than infantry: I had a point to make for Christ, I believed. I would be a pacifist foot soldier who would of course be martyred for such stupidity, but noble stupidity. At the end of AIT (Advanced Infantry Training) in May of "67, I was given orders for Viet Nam: I greeted this with mixed reactions. After a thirty day leave, I would be shipped out sometime after my return, which happened to be a year into my service, 12/1*67. Perfect timing. Acclimatizing and training and farting around, I got a call to Headquarters while training with the M79 grenade launcher. (Love that weapon; I was classified 11CHarlie, mortars; it was like mortars gone pedestrian.) I walk into the Communication Officer's office and it is an old friend from HS. He tells I am now a corporal and a crypto-clerk. The end of the Warrior for Pacifism, though I did not have a clue at the time. Air-conditioning, great food, safety, other perks, no infantry drudgery, essentially Club Med, even during Tet just over a month later. Never shot at or even threatened, nor did I ever have to shot at anything but qualification targets.”

rumitoid

And thank you for that, backing up what I said.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

This Nam story is but one time that you told this often told story by different personalities! This is one more proof that you lie profusely! This post was posted under the name, Tommymore, one of your many personalities! You just admitted that the story was yours!

I don’t know, but it seems that you were hinting that you were so good at hitting your target that it saved your life! You said nothing about being assigned to being a Crypto Clerk! This is your MO, tell a half t***h, then you can claim that it was your t***h as you saw it! But, maybe I missed your point!🤷🏻‍♀️