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To: Eagles6

It was sometime in the 60’s that a drill sergeant marched a bunch of them in a swamp. Several drowned.


10 posted on 06/08/2016 7:56:24 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I seem to recall that they were trying to cross a flooded creek maybe.


12 posted on 06/08/2016 8:00:28 AM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Wasn’t he drunk?


13 posted on 06/08/2016 8:01:30 AM PDT by Gamecock ( Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul...Matthew 10:28)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

1956 if I remember correctly, I had a cousin who was a DI at the time,


15 posted on 06/08/2016 8:18:21 AM PDT by Little Bill (o)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

April 8, 1956:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_Creek_incident


16 posted on 06/08/2016 8:22:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I remember a Quincy episode where the DI tried to cover up a recruit’s earlier suicide by drowning by rushing all the guys through a creek confusing who was there.


18 posted on 06/08/2016 8:26:47 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ribbon Creek April 1956. Chesty Puller testified for the defense and got McKeon convicted of lesser charges. It led to a number of changes in recruit training, including no night marches. Don’t know if they are back or not.

As for the Mohammedan’s death, he had no right to be among heroes and real men.


22 posted on 06/08/2016 8:48:01 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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