Posted on 09/23/2017 7:57:23 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I think candy sounded like a very good idea!
Congratulations to all involved.
The hard part starts *after* boot camp. That was kind of a surprise to me back in the day.
He tell you what his MOS is gonna be?
Disgusting on many levels...The Corps is toast...
Got anything for normal users of desktop and laptop PC's?
What?
You would have to have been there (P.I.) in June 1951 to understand my total dismay over the destruction, in the last decade, of the finest fighting force the world has ever known.
I am using a desktop and no problem using Periscope site.
No option for PC viewing that I can see. Using Firefox, not IE.
Ah, belay that, just clicked on the paly arrow and it runs. All that “ape” stuff threw me for a loop.
Graduation is far different than 1965, that is for sure. We were all in winter greens, these guys looked like in some modified “recruiter” uniform with dress blues trousers and cover. Certainly not summer khaki.
1951 ?
does your service number have more than 4 digits ?
I got grief from a friend of mine just a week ago cause my service number started with a “2”.
thank you for paving the trail for the rest of us.
Semper FI .
That said, and granted that I am old as dirt; the last military graduation I went to was in 1963, when the attendees were well-groomed and nicely dressed — the men wore coat and tie and the women wore gloves and small hats with nice dresses, stockings and heels, and everyone was 30 to 75 pounds lighter. Dwight D. Eisenhower was in attendance. I was shocked to see how most of these people were dressed, and that someone connected to the event had "helped" by distributing T-shirts for the occasion. Seems that few Americans want to graduate to adulthood any more.
Everything is more informal now. People used to wear jackets and ties to college football games back in the day. However, more formal wear would have been uncomfortable in the heat. Graduation Day wasn’t too bad but the day before on Family Day, the weather at Parris Island was brutally hot and muggy with mosquitoes bouncing off us.
BTW, I grew up reading comic books and the future was always presented with people wearing elaborate clothes with almost knee high boots, etc.. That’s what I thought our current times would look like back then. Instead we ended up in the future wearing in public basically what would be considered underwear back then. Oh, and no knee-high boots but plenty of flip-flop slippers nowadays.
I didn’t mean to offend you personally about the dress, since everyone seemed to have the same idea — “when in Rome...” Just making a general observation about American society’s dress code. I’m sure it was hot.
Back in the day, the men would wear a short-sleeve dress shirt with no tie and lightweight trousers made of cotton or linen.
re what we thought future clothing would look like, I was walking on a city street one evening and glanced at a young man wearing a silver track suit with classy sneakers. Realized he looked a lot like what we thought “space men” would look like—astronauts or even aliens.
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