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To: Starstruck

"Ask them to give you their Serial. Any veteran will be able to rattle it off in about 3 seconds. Don't know why but its stuck in my head forever."

'Cause from day-1 you couldn't eat untill it had been rattled off about three times ... in the line, at the door and pickin' up the tray.

'Least that's how it was in March of '65 at Ft. Dix.

You were probably RA (like me) and wanted to know it.

45 posted on 07/29/2004 4:58:22 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)

To: knarf

Went thru Dix on my way to Germany, November '66. Transit barracks were the pits.

48 posted on 07/29/2004 5:03:56 PM PDT by Starstruck

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