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Found the Memory of the Old Corps for our Marines
Old Marine Vu-Graph
| 1965
| Unknown Marine
Posted on 04/03/2024 7:58:53 AM PDT by Chainmail
Life in the Old Corps - but likely the same as the New Corps too
TOPICS: History; Humor; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 1960s; godsgravesglyphs; marinecorps; marines; oldcorps; usmc; vietnam
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To: Chainmail
Signed up a couplde weeks or so before getting on the bus. MCRD San Diego August 25 IIRC.
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posted on
04/03/2024 11:22:28 AM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: Chainmail
LOL!
Earth shoes, love beads, and patchouli?
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posted on
04/03/2024 11:24:07 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Chode
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posted on
04/03/2024 11:25:58 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
To: NorthMountain
Sort of missed all that - what the heck is patchouli?
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:18:58 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: Chainmail
Patchouli is a scented oil beloved of hippie chicks ... along with love beads and earth shoes. It stinks, IMO.
I picture the mother who accosted you as having been a hippie.
Perhaps I was being a little too obscure?
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:38:40 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Chainmail
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:39:02 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Chainmail
skonk oil, they think it replaces showering, stinks...
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:40:21 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Red Badger
The language alone in my 1965 Army would cause the vapors in 90% of our congress.
I honestly, subconsciously asked my brother at the kitchen table to pass the f'n salt . . . the family froze !
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:49:05 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: knarf
Same for my Marine Corps!.................
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:50:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Chode
You bring up a good point, raises a question to which I don’t know the answer: Is it the patchouli I find repulsive, or the combination of patchouli and BO? Not sure I’ve ever smelled it NOT in the context of an unwashed hippie ...
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posted on
04/03/2024 12:52:07 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: stylin19a
Auto type screw up.....It should have said “mine was a number (not based on SSAN) but was not Marine Corps.” AF then eight numbers.
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posted on
04/03/2024 1:12:13 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Chainmail
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posted on
04/03/2024 1:15:38 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
To: Chainmail; Red Badger
Whenever I'm out and about and run into an old Marine proudly wearing his USMC hat, I'll say to him, "Hey Marine, Semper Fi from an old Army guy!"
I usually get a wave and a smile. (No middle-fingers yet 😁)
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posted on
04/03/2024 1:28:34 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: PROCON
A cousin was drafted into the army. On showing up and being put on a bus, had a Marine recruiter or DI come on the bus and pick out several including my cousin.
Drafted into the USMC.
We had a few in the platoon replacing us at MCRD and I pitied the crap they would get. Being drafted had to suck, and then have to go through Marine bootcamp?
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posted on
04/03/2024 1:57:51 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
To: NorthMountain
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posted on
04/03/2024 2:33:49 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Gaffer
"127890XX was mine."Holy crap! When to you come in?
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posted on
04/03/2024 2:52:02 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: doorgunner69
"MCRD San Diego August 25 IIRC."I got on the bus on June 29th, almost 2 months ahead of you - Plt 148 MCRD San Diego> Our Senior DI was SSgt Trujillo, a real sadist who was busted to Lance Corporal soon after.
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posted on
04/03/2024 2:55:23 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: knarf
It wasn’t until Parris Island that I learned Jesus
had a middle name !!!
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posted on
04/03/2024 2:55:58 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: NorthMountain
I was in Vietnam and then the hospital for a while, so I sort of missed out of some of the weirdness. That was a really insane time, wasn’t it?
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posted on
04/03/2024 2:56:55 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
To: knarf
"I honestly, subconsciously asked my brother at the kitchen table to pass the f'n salt . . . the family froze !"A similar situation happened to me - when I got back for my Extension Leave from Vietnam, my three year old little sister wandered through our family home (second to last of my nine siblings) sayin "F___ you, F__ you" - I said "who the F___ taught her that"? and the rest of my family just stared at me...
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posted on
04/03/2024 3:01:12 PM PDT
by
Chainmail
(How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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