[Starstruck]

I enlisted in 1966 and there were a few (very few) draftees in boot camp....the Drill Instructors made life so miserable on the poor saps that I'll bet their reenlistment rate was Zero.

I joined the Army in 1966. At the recruitment center they took a number of draftees and put them in the marines. The picking was done by an Army Sergeant. You could tell he was picking the scrawniest guys he could.

[dljordan]

“I joined the Army in 1966. At the recruitment center they took a number of draftees and put them in the marines.”

I was standing in line at the Navy enlistment center in Nashville, Tn. in 68’ when a Marine Gunnery Sergeant came in and said “you, you, you and you, are now United States Marines”. He picked every other man in the line. Boy, were they surprised!