Great Lakes. 9/68-11/68

Oh and forgot, we was the last set Companies to house in the Wooden Barracks.

The Concrete building were already built ready for first company after us.

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:


Our barracks

Same barracks 10 years earlier. 2nd Battalion D Co 2063.

I remember looking out from the second deck of an evening and watching the sun set over the memorial. I guess that would have been second phase that I was on second deck? I remember throwing mattresses off the top deck, running down, and running it back upstairs in first phase.

ft polk, july 1969.

NTC San Diego, Aug 1977

Ft. Leonard Wood, July 2022-sept 2022. 1-48INBF. I did basic at the ripe age to 35 for the national guard. Nothing like being the only guy who has 2 kids, wife, regular job, and a house kicking it with kids heading to college or licking their mothers milk off their lips. I had to teach the fuzzies (privates) how to write checks and address envelopes as an E-4. I took top shot of the company on the m4 and got a letter of commendation from the LTC for outstanding marksmanship. Most of them hadn’t touched a rifle before. I was older than the drill sergeants and the captain.

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Originally posted by jljones:

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Originally posted by Pale Horse:


Our barracks

Same barracks 10 years earlier. 2nd Battalion D Co 2063.

I remember looking out from the second deck of an evening and watching the sun set over the memorial. I guess that would have been second phase that I was on second deck? I remember throwing mattresses off the top deck, running down, and running it back upstairs in first phase.

They’d done away with phases when I went and implemented the crucible. I was on the first deck the entire time I was there. But yeah, we were right across from the memorial. It was a beautiful sight to see sometimes.

My GF at the time, who I later married and is now my ex and the mother of my kids, was there for my graduation. We were recently talking to our kids and she was telling them all about PI and the sights she saw while visiting, which was hilarious because I spent 3 months there and she spent three days yet she knows more about the base than I do.

I feel like a bad Marine not remembering my platoon number. I want to say it was 2040 or 2041, but I might be way off. I need to go to my storage locker and dig out my platoon picture.

NTC San Diego 1959

NTC San Diego company zero 36 in’82.

Ft Leonard Wood Jan 1969 "Little Korea" Cold and Miserable.

Ft. Leonard Wood during the summer of 1983.

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Originally posted by D_Steve:
US Army
March 15,1971-May 23,1971
FT. Knox, KY
Delta 13-4
Drill Sgt. Cash

I was Delta 13-4 too, but in 1985

Lackland AFB Aug 62. It was very hot!

No sir. August-December 1985 Ft Benning Basic and Infantry OSUT at Harmony Church then straight over to Airborne school.

Aug-Sept 1978 @ Lackland

Fort Polk LA Jan ‘71 A-4-2

RTC San Diego, July-August 1983

Marine Corps Recruit Depot - San Diego

First Recruit Training Battalion

May 1983

Great Lakes. 9/76 - 10/77. Boot Camp, A school, C school. Gunners Mate. Cold. Did I say it was COLD? No? IT WAS FRICKEN COLD!!! Classes in the great green cube.

Parris Island, SC
May 1980
2nd Recruit Battalion, MCRD
Platoon 2037

My father was Ft Polk, Jul-Dec 1968 A-3-1