My education at Harmony Church began in November of 1968. I swear I still have a chigger buried in my left butt cheek from the experience.
Interesting thread, proud to be with y’all. 1970 — NAS Corpus Christi (CNAVAVANTRA) mess hall (good stuff); 1971-1972 — aboard DE-1022, homeport Naples, Italy; ASW (chasing Soviet subs from one end of the med to the other); wrote tons of enemy sighting reports. They really did feed us “forward deployed” units quite well. Out to sea 75% (out three weeks,and visited ancient Rome sites about every week ashore).
I met a guy at NTC (FT Irwin) from the OPFOR BDE who used to say, “Death before dismount.” At the time we were executing the last 82nd ABN DIV light fighter rotation at NTC before beginning what would become a yearly JRTC torture first in FT Chaffee, AK and later in FT POLK, LA.
Regards.