[stylin19a]

I was a “Hollywood” Marine :)

Went to Arty school at Pendleton.

Stumps was where I went after schools....at that time, just a big arty base....and a place reserves went to fulfill their 2 week a year commitment.

I had this red card (3x5 or 5x7, I forget)on the jacket of my SRB right out of boot camp. If i'm lyin, i'm dying !

I got my orders cut 5/70 to VN 7/70, and landed in VN as an individual replacement...as a grunt

I could never get a 96 hour pass...I'm thinking it's because i was red tagged.

i tried to google something about it....no luck Guess it'll take another Marine in around the same time as I to back me up.

Semper Fi

[oh8eleven]

If you had been "red tagged" you wouldn't have gone to the Stumps. You would have gone straight from arty school to Staging Bn. which was also at Pendleton.
I went from arty school to Whiskey Battery, 3/13 (four deuce mortars) as part of the build up of the 5th Mar Div.
A month or so later the division was officially reactivated, we had a grand parade and a few days later I had my orders for WestPac. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.