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To: PGalt

On 11 April 1960, my dad dropped me, a 17-year old, at the Fort Wayne Induction Center in downtown Detroit. Spent the night in a barracks there after in-processing all day. Caught a train to San Antonio the next day. We loaded on to a bus and when we got to Lackland, a Staff Sergeant got on the bus, passed out dogtags and, on behalf of President Eisenhower, welcomed us to the Mighty United States Air Force, “now get the hell off this bus, you dipsh!ts.” I ended up seeing some of the world and got a great career out of it.


191 posted on 08/25/2007 8:39:28 AM PDT by Ax
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To: Ax; ErnBatavia; concretebob; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ...
My husband and son just visited the new Museum at Quantico last week. There is a section depicting a new recruit being told to "get off my bus and onto the yellow footprints"

Of course this is the Disney family version - no "Limp wristed weasel d#cks" being called out at all. ;^)

192 posted on 08/25/2007 8:46:34 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy, Mayor of Sanctuary City)
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