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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

Numbers were different series for different services and times, and from what locations, et. Mine was from Atlanta Ponce DeLeon Induction Center in May of 1968 Airforce.......

6 months they changed it from AF127890XX to an FR(my social security number).


41 posted on 04/03/2024 3:08:43 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Ah, Ponce Induction center. now there’s a memory.
Next stop PI.


42 posted on 04/03/2024 3:13:03 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Chainmail

2570297


43 posted on 04/03/2024 3:18:29 PM PDT by stylin19a (When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
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To: Gaffer

ahhhh


44 posted on 04/03/2024 3:19:53 PM PDT by stylin19a (When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
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To: stylin19a

FYI, my dad’s USAAC WWII number was in the 349XXX series and he was enlisted in 1939


45 posted on 04/03/2024 3:21:52 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer
Air Force! I thought it was a Marine Corps serial number!

If it had been, you'd likely have joined during WWII..

Sadly, both of my uncles and my father served in the Army Air Forces in WWII and they developed a rather loftily superior attitude when dealing with me - one of uncles said that "anybody who's dumb enough to join the Marines during a war is an idiot".

It was quite a while until he and I spoke again.

46 posted on 04/03/2024 3:26:11 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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To: doorgunner69

I was drafted.
8 of us out of about 200 had a blue sheet of paper on our induction record books.
They haul us off into separate room and a Marine 2nd Lt. comes in and tells us he is going to administer the oath. (I was 5’9” and weighed 160 and my concept of a Marine is John Wayne, so why do they want me ?)
One of us gets out of line and says no way...he’s joining the army.
A friend of mine from the hood sticks his head in the door, sees me and asks hey Dxxx what are you doing in here?
The 2nd Lt. goes into a drill instructor voice and says hey you get in here and stand next to him.
He does and we take the oath. Too Funny. I was with him up to VN then we got separated.

On the flight to MCRD San Diego boot camp, i gets to talking with the guy next to me and I tell him I was was drafted and I asked him about his enlistment...he tells me “The judge said...” again too funny.

Too funny was over cause then came the yellow footprints...


47 posted on 04/03/2024 3:32:03 PM PDT by stylin19a (When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
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To: Chainmail

When I came noe to announce joining, my stepmonster proclaimed “Only thugs and criminals join the Marines”.

This must have just pleased the hell out of my father, who spent WWII as a navy corpsman saving the lives of Marines on Guadalcanal, Okinawa, etc.

She did not like her stepkids much.


48 posted on 04/03/2024 3:36:29 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Chainmail

Their attitudes may have come from the extremely heavy losses air crews over Europe eclipsed that of the marines, even at Iwo Jima. They were two different types of War environments and both were horrific.


49 posted on 04/03/2024 3:44:39 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: stylin19a; All

It has been correctly pointed out to me that we had Service Numbers, not serial numbers… Must be getting old to have made that mistake!

We had a draftee join us in Echo company 2/1, early in ‘67 and we didn’t believe him - but he was living proof that the Marine Corps was actually taking draftees! We found that to be crazy, since in our view, that wasn’t any place for anyone but volunteers.

Sad that the Corps resorted to that system, but our draftee was a fine Marine for us.


50 posted on 04/03/2024 4:03:40 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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To: stylin19a

Now - when were you in ? 257Xxxx is a tall service number!


51 posted on 04/03/2024 4:08:54 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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To: stylin19a

1468876, I even know my father’s at 224683. USMC Old Timers.


52 posted on 04/03/2024 5:13:14 PM PDT by OldLurker (D.R.I.P. (Don't reelect incumbent politicians without Term Limits) No dues, no registration. )
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To: Chainmail

Reminds me of Willie and Joe from;
‘Up Front’ during WWII!
Thanks


53 posted on 04/03/2024 6:43:18 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Chainmail

69-71


54 posted on 04/03/2024 7:33:26 PM PDT by stylin19a (When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
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To: OldLurker

just dang...


55 posted on 04/03/2024 7:44:08 PM PDT by stylin19a (When in a bikini,women show 90% of their body. men are so polite they only look at the covered parts)
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To: Chainmail

Sheer madness ... as a minor-age military brat I saw it less directly than you, but I don’t miss much.


56 posted on 04/03/2024 8:22:29 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Chainmail

Interesting. Mine is 2057635


57 posted on 04/04/2024 12:43:03 AM PDT by theirjustdue
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To: theirjustdue
"Interesting. Mine is 2057635"

OK, I'm boot - when did you come in?

58 posted on 04/04/2024 6:05:21 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Chainmail

On July 23, 1963, Nam was in 65/66 with 2/1. How about you? I established and ran the VC (mine and boobytrap) Trail behind the old Navy hospital at Mainside, Pendleton until I got out in July 67. Did you ever go through the trail while I was the instructor?


59 posted on 04/04/2024 10:55:05 PM PDT by theirjustdue
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To: theirjustdue
I'm pretty sure that I did - if it was the same one we were trained in as part of the Staging Battalion course of instruction as we got ready to go over in November-December 1965. Lots of tripwires with really loud mine simulators.. Excellent training and good preparation for what came next.

I arrived in Vietnam in January '66 and in November '66 was assigned to Golf company 2/1 as a Scout Observer for my parent battery, Bravo 1/11. Last until May '67 and then finally got out of the hospital (that same WWII temporary hospital at Camp Pendleton) in December '67.

60 posted on 04/05/2024 5:48:12 AM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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