[5th MEB]

When I was 17 I got my Mother to sign off the enlistment documents and joined the Marine Corps.
5 years, 3 tours, and never regretted one minute of it.
Only got out because Stateside duty was boring as hell.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The next month I got a bill to start paying the loan back. When i applied for the loan the paper had two check-boxes. One for 2 years and the other 2.5 years. So I opted for the 2.5 years thinking that's when I start paying the loan back. Turned out that was the length of the loan repayments.

I moved into a basement apartment in Astoria Queens, New York. The rent was 400 a month. I was earning 800 dollars a week (400 take home) as a union ironworker.