You should have seen Boot Camp before “The Ribbon Creek Incident,” if you think this is something to get excited about.
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If ‘they’ would have paid attention nothing would have happened.
I was about a year from enlisting and it just made me want to go more -
Of course, I had the Nuns of the 40s/50s to toughen us up for boot camp.
I really think the Sea Services ‘loved’ us Catholic School boys because we had been through most of what ‘they’ did to us and survived. AND we knew (for the most part) how to keep our mouths shut.
The ‘hardest’ part of Boot Camp is whipping a bunch of High School kids into men in a very short period of time.
The Nuns had prepared us for the early stages....
I recently had a similar conversation with an Emergency Room nurse.
I had arrived by ambulance at about 0400, and after I was stabilized and they were filling out all the forms required for admission, one of the questions was, “Have you been abused or neglected.” The question took me aback, as I had never been asked that question anytime in the past, and I didn’t know quite what she meant, but I had read somewhere about “Elderly Abuse,” and I do qualify as elderly, so I answered, as a joke, “I served four years in the Marine Corps, does that count?”
We both got a good laugh out of it.