Posted on 01/25/2019 1:39:09 PM PST by rktman
Ozone Ranger!! Maybe a Diaper Sniper!
Someone on Facebook looked up and got hold of his DD-214. He never deployed overseas, and according to his records he was an air conditioning repair technician.
`Force Recon’ was just us non-native speakers misunderstanding his `force Freon’ remark I guess.
I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer to this question I have. My dad is a Marine (once a Marine, always a Marine- he’s 90). It is my understanding that they are very strict about who they let into the Marines, even if just boot camp, and I thought I read that even your juvenile records must be seen by them?? So how did he even get into the Marines with his mess of a record?? How did he stay, if he really was a Marine? I’m very confused about this. Were standards more lax in the 70’s? TY
Beaucoup VC in Nebraska, man..
Force Recon == Marine Corps
Ranger == Army
Recon Ranger == blithering idiot.
If he loosed Freon into the atmosphere, he’s an EVIL OZONE KILLER!!!!!!!.................
Maybe what the Marines are watching out for aren’t necessarily the things that will disqualify you with most employers.
LOL!!!.................
If'n I get skin cancer, I'm gonna sue his arse!
Not during those two days!!!
The takeout Thai, though, was well-chilled.
Yuck.
I was a Marine Lieutenant in the mid-70s and we had thugs, race riots, thieves, dope sellers and the barracks smelled of marijuana every evening.
Then the Commandant, General Wilson issued an ALMAR (All Marines) message instituted the Expeditious Discharge where we could kick out any and all Marines without going through elaborate legal proceedings.
It was like an enema for the Corps and almost overnight we discharged 600 Marines in the 1st Marine Brigade alone.
Whole new Corps after that, back to normal. Had Phillips (or whatever he called himself back then) been one of my Marines he'd had a court-martial long before that but for sure, I'd have made him swear that he'd never tell anybody he was in the Marine Corps and got him on a plane home.
Phillips had always strongly implied it — without coming right out and saying it.
None of the snowflake media whores have served in the armed forces. Some years ago quite a few had and,regardless of politics, would asked Phillips straight out; Did you ever serve on the ground in the VN, in the air over it or in the waters around it or in support of VN ops in neighboring countries. If so when and where. ‘ No fudging would be permitted. A vet always remembers the time frame and the units he served in.
This fool is smoking weird stuff in his peace pipes. DD214 has no boxes for ‘peacetime’ or ‘in theater’ to check. At least my 1969 DD214 doesn’t. Out of country foreign assignments are shown in your service record in an area defined for just that, no boxes to check. It’s not surprising Chief Frigidaire doesn’t talk about his ‘Vietnam times’ since there weren’t any.
It wasn’t uncommon for juvenile delinquents to be offered a choice in court of military or jail in the mid 60’s.
“Well, he WAS a rifleman in the Nebraska theater for two days.
Not just one day, but two.”
Ah yes...well do I remember the horrific carnage at the Battle of Omaha...
He was watching ‘Apocalypse Now.’
All those VC pouring in.
Guess after his two days as a rifleman (0311? Been too long since I screened SRB’s - sounds right) he went out to El Toro.
Where he had to relax during 3 AWOL’s.
Actually, most of those Marines turned out to be pretty good in combat.
No, the slime balls we got towards the end were the “Project 100,000” dregs that our government thought would suffice. They didn’t.
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