US Navy 8 August 1966
Aug 9, 2016 14:52:38 #
arthurfweidner wrote:
Hi,I started my boot camp at RTC Great Lakes at 11Aug.1967
Hell, in 1960 I was in Marine Corp boot camp in, Parris Island. In 1967 I was in Nam on my 2nd trick. Tet started shortly after I got there. I think January or February 1968.
Aug 9, 2016 15:00:52 #
Aug 9, 2016 15:03:26 #
usn4373 wrote:
Joined NOV 43 and retired NOV 1973. Boot camp at Great Lakes.
Hell, I was born in 43....you are an old guy. Congratulations!!
Aug 9, 2016 15:09:40 #
usn4373 wrote:
Joined NOV 43 and retired NOV 1973. Boot camp at Great Lakes.
Did you ever serve on Forrestal? I was a ship's company AO May 1967-August 1969.
Aug 9, 2016 15:18:22 #
So many of us getting in under the wire for Korean GI bill, Bainbridge, MD activated. Company 55, Jan. 1955.
Aug 9, 2016 16:07:54 #
Enlisted into USAF shortly after H.S. graduation (Milwaukee,WI. 22 July 1963). Eventually assigned as aircraft Maint on C-130E. two tours to an exotic little country in SEA called South Vietnam, 1965 then returned in 1966/67. Made crew chief in '66 on aircraft # 877. Took discharge in 1967, best 4 years of my life. Three years ago found the actual aircraft I crewed on static display in Peoria, ILL. Had a wonderful two day visit!!
"Here's to us, and those like us! Damn few left!" from Gardens of Stone
"Here's to us, and those like us! Damn few left!" from Gardens of Stone
Aug 9, 2016 16:35:08 #
Bravo Zulu to fellow squids... Was foolish enough to do bootcamp in Great Lakes during a really cold February in 1970. Anyone remember lining up for breakfast at 0500 in the frigid darkness when the mercury hovered aound 10 degrees F? Recall shoveling snow from one of the grinders... only took 5 hours with no break... next day had 103 temperature and the flu... To reduce fever, the corpsman made us drink ice water almost continuously. It worked, but even today when I see a pitcher of ice water I get chills. Best to all of you...
Bob
Bob
Aug 9, 2016 17:01:45 #
Aug 9, 2016 17:19:52 #
ysam45 wrote:
So what?
Hey..these are Navy guys, not Marines. They think they did something. Be nice, they are fragile.
Aug 9, 2016 18:49:19 #
canarywood1
Loc: Sarasota,Florida
And i remember when it was called Great Lakes Naval Training Station, anyone else here that old???
Aug 9, 2016 19:05:59 #
Yep...and the receiving center was Camp Barry, complete with the WW1 barracks. Was a really dismal place.
Aug 9, 2016 19:33:40 #
micolh wrote:
Hey..these are Navy guys, not Marines. They think they did something. Be nice, they are fragile.
Won't take the bait and ever say anything negative about the Corps. My dad was a leatherneck and he married a Navy WAVE. Sometimes when I would bs with my dad, I'd remind him that the Marines were part of the Navy. He'd agree, and say, "Yep, the best part." As a Navy photographer and aircrewman, I often flew with Marine heavy helicopter squadrons. I consider myself part jarhead by blood and association.
Dad got me started in photography. He was a combat cameraman in the South Pacific and flew with 1st and 2nd Marine Air Wings. He knew Pappy Boyington and received a commendation fron Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. If you've watched any documentary footage of Marine action in the South Pacific, you have seen his work. I will try to post a famous photo he made on Pelelieu that was published in 500 newspapers. It was a night time exposure of an air attack over Bloddy Nose Ridge.
So, to my USMC brothers out there, Semper Fi...
Aug 9, 2016 20:02:48 #
Here is link to Peleliu photo:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peleliu%27s_Great_White_Way.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peleliu%27s_Great_White_Way.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
Aug 9, 2016 21:21:31 #
robbiedoug
Loc: Cuero, Texas
Good for you! 59 years ago on Aug. 8, I began my career in Uncle Sam's Air Force. Best 23 years I ever spent.
Aug 9, 2016 21:49:29 #
Reported to RTC Bainbridge, MD December '56 Damn, it was cold!
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