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To: El Gran Salseron

EGS
Ive aways had a bias toward them as most services hold toward one another.

As years went by and I actually got to work with them I found they are beyond reproach.
The finest we have.
Marines are taught to use thier heads.
taught to think and overcome overwelming odds
Im proud to have made their aquaintence


436 posted on 07/05/2006 10:51:58 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife
I see that you're a submariner. Ever get any flack re the hull number? A tin-canner I met who served on the USS BLACK (DD-666) wished he had drawn a better number.

But speaking of submariners, my father-in-law served aboard the USS TINOSA - the first one - during WWII.

In his day, future submariners were required to pass a specific swimming test. He never learned to swim, and got a buddy to take the test for him. Fooled the instructors and he got his dolphins. An FT 3rd class, he was on watch one night when an spotted a Japanese warship. A short while later, Tojo was minus one ship. His skipper gave him a bottle of whiskey for his efforts. He was a non-drinker so he stashed it away. Some time later, when he opened his footlocker, it was gone. He was more pleased with the broom on the mast when they arrived in Pearl than he was of the missing bottle.

458 posted on 07/05/2006 11:09:56 PM PDT by Diver Dave
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