He washed out of basic training, therefore was never a marine.
However, he did harvest sugar cane for Fidel Castro's famuly business and went to work every day via a motor launch from which he stepped into the sea.
Doesn't that count??
Rather was from Wharton Texas, and if he joined in Texas, He would have gone to MCRD San Diego for Boot. One is not part of the brotherhood until completeing Boot Camp.
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