Let’s start calling IT, “SLICK - SLEEVE”.
I was never in the service. Dad was a marine who served on Guadalcanal and Bougainville. Got a mosquito borne disease and shipped stateside. Was a prison guard at Portsmouth naval prison. Got ready to be deployed to attack mainland Japan when the bomb dropped.
He Never got past PFC. I never asked why.
I Asked about the battles. He wouldn’t talk about them.