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Ft Ord for me, Feb. 73 C-2-3

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  • firstspouse
    Ft Jackson, S.C. Jun-Aug 1954
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  • Spotscat
    Here's an uncommon one...

    USCG TRACEN, Alameda, California -- Feb. 1974 to Apr. 1974

    "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." - Samuel Clemens
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  • just4fun
    Ft Dix 1970, Really cold!
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  • Sting
    June 1965, Parris Island, Platoon 340
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  • chuckyd46032
    Fort Dix
    Nov. 64
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  • chuckyd46032
    Fort Dix
    Nov. 64
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  • pwillie
    Lackland AFB 1964
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  • armilite
    Fort Dix, N.J. Feb, 1970 C-6-3.
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  • SLEEPWALKERV
    FT.Ord B-1-2 1970
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  • Skipper49
    Hey All - - - I'm new to web site, but thought I'd jump in on this one, as a Viet Nam Vet. I did boot camp @ Great Lakes, Illinois in Dec. of 1967 (Frozen Loogies on the grinder) - BE/E School (Basic Electricity & Electronics) @ Great Lakes (still cold), RM"A" school @ Bainbridge, Md. in the spring of 1968. Two years @ NavRadSta Ft. Allen, Puerto Rico (Ponce) (What torture) - Counted as sea duty back then.........From there, reality hit me right between the eyes - River Duty with River Division 54 (RivDiv54) on the upper reaches of the Mekong - Patrolled 15 klik's of river from Cambodian Border & southward....Damn glad to make it back home in one piece!!!
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  • CapnMidnight
    Welcome home brother.
    W.D.
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  • Sky Soldier
    quote:Originally posted by CapnMidnight
    Welcome home brother.
    W.D.



    Whut he said!

    SS
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  • Skipper49
    Cap'n Midnight & Sky Soldier - Thanks for the welcome & acknowledgement - We never got that when we came home!!
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  • draftee
    Fort Polk May 1968 B-5-2
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  • JackiePapers
    Lackland AFB - 1963
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  • meterman
    Ft. Leonard Wood, summer of '59 Army

    USCG Base Alameda, CA spring of '63 Coast Guard.
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  • JeffreyD103
    Lackland AFB - San Antonio, TX

    March and April, 1981
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  • deadeye46
    Ft.Knox from Dec.'65 to Feb.'66
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  • yankeeflintlock
    Fort Gordon, GA. 4/69, Then to Fort Sill- 13A,Fort Benning for Jump School, then to Fort Bragg with the 82nd ABN, 1/320 FA
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  • BuffaloGun
    Lackland AFB, June/July 1970
    Don't laugh, we never ran the obstackle course.
    It rained that day.[8D]
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  • 74cuda
    Ft. Dix, NJ June 1974. D-1-3.

    Missed Vietnam tho.
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  • o b juan
    Ft Chaffee Ark. March April 1956
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  • deadeye46
    Ft. Knox--Dec '65-Jan '66.received my draft notice on my 19th birthday in Nov.65.
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  • machine gun moran
    Ft. Knox 7/62 to 9/62, F-8-3. Loved my Garand, and all of the ranges - known distance, trainfire, quickfire, live-fire infiltration (heavily supervised so no one with a loaded Garand lagged behind), and especially the transition range - firing from steep rooftops and such made you get inventive [:D]. Wonder what rifle training is like today...

    Loved the Platoon Sergeants. Especially when we just got our mess trays filled, and one of them would bark "You've got 30 seconds to eat and fall in!"[}:)][8][:D]
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  • fatercat
    ft. BRAG---1 NOV. 68. THEN TO fT. POLK."TIGER LAND"
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  • cbxjeff
    Ft. Knox. Late 1963. B-16-4
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  • kimi
    Two of the things that I never did to my recruits was rush their meals or cut in to their sleep time. As a matter of fact I was always attmepting to get seconds on the food for them.
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  • TooBig
    Fort Lost in the woods Missouri Aug 65 B-1-3 place was empty and by the time I left it was wall to wall building up for Nam. I spent 19 months in Germany[:p]
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  • Newtire
    August-November '68 San Diego USN training center. An extra 4-weeks to get glasses-long story.
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  • cptslick
    Ft Jackson A/6/2 November 1957, 19degrees in tents.
    Ft Dix Infantry AIT 1958
    Retired 1978
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