He joined the Marines just in time to visit Okinawa and be introduced to the Japanese by having one Kamikaze onto the top of the #3 turret of the USS Maryland. He was manning an anti-aircraft gun at the base of said turret at the time.
He never really talked about Korea.
Spent one tour of duty at Da Nang supervising aircraft maintenance. Someone wasn’t very fond of his, uh, roommate, so his tent got fragged once. Not totally peeved, they used a smoke grenade, instead of the more traditional fragmentation model. He had pink underwear for over a month...
“Lab-Golden-Australian mix”
LOL!
Who ‘guesses’ the dogs?
Boxer/Bully/*maybe* Golden.