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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A different journey to the Marine Corps
Parris Island, 1945 I have considered myself to be a Marine for the past 70 years. I was in boot camp..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
I grew up in the backwoods of Tennessee and was raised by a stepfather who had a bad temper and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
I was assigned to the U.S. Army Air Corps. At that time there was no separate air force. For basic..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
My basic training in San Diego is something I still remember and talk about today. I am 76 years old. My..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
December 1961 What I remember the most after 54 years is that it was cold, snowy and icy! A southern boy out..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
What do I remember about basic training? I can answer in two words: Pure Hell! I was drafted in the largest..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic training
I grew up in a Hartford suburb, experienced the one-room schoolhouse, then three years in normal grade-school brick. My father..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
IT'S ONLY A DENTAL EXAM
It is not uncommon for patients to miss a dental examination and cleaning where the excuse is “it’s only a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A Problem in the Ranks
My brother & I entered Basic Training at Lackland AFB in October 1958. Laud T. Burton from Missouri was in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
look at your self first!
It was late in 1966 when I was drafted to serve. Got sent to Fort Ord Ca. I was a..
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OTHER
K5TAL, American Legion Post 1992, Gautier-Vancleave, Miss.
Gautier-Vancleave, MS
Post 1992, Gautier/Vancleave Aug 4, 2016. In August 2015, four amateur radio operators, all members of Post 1992, requested and were..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio TX
I graduated from a small country school in rural southeast Texas, with 51 other students. A little over 3 weeks later..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Weekend Liberty in Boot Camp???
After too much fun in college, February of 1969 found me at MCRD San Diego undergoing 9 weeks of Marine..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Story of basic tranning, George Williams 82nd Airborne
I went to Army Basic Training at Ft Leonard Wood MO in the winter of 1962. It was cold and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Momma can't help me now!
I went off to Boot Camp right after graduation at the innocent age of 17. After my first airplane ride..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Wounded Warrior Now 'Chowventor'
After being honorably discharged from the Air Force after 10 years of service, wounded warrior Amber Frymark began searching for..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Best Basic Memories
I did my basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington in October of 1967. That worked for me because I..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
ALA Volunteering -
ALA Unit #245 Joan Runk, president of ALA Unit #245, Cross Plains has done some amazing things with the children in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Fort Benning snakes.
In early 1969, I was privileged to experience basic at Fort Benning, Georgia. We were warned many times about..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
The Death of Sons
Very seldom do I get an e-mail so thought-provoking that I have to read it more than once, even..
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OTHER
Post 176 at Virginia Fall Conference
Springfield, VA
Department of Virginia Conference, 21-23 October 2016 Post 176 was well represented at the Department of Virginia Conference in Williamsburg, Va. From..
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WHY I LOVE MY POST
A tail number and a tale of two airmen
Pagosa Springs, CO
American Legion Mullins-Nickerson Post 108 Pagosa Springs, Colo. A Tail Number and a Tale of Two Airmen A SHORT HISTORY OF C-130A, TAIL..
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IN YOUR OWN WORDS
Vietnam Doc
Dr. William Clayton Petty served as the Chief of Anesthesia at the 24th Evacuation Hospital in Vietnam. In Vietnam,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Shorten Basic and 67 years later
Fort Ord, California, February 1948, we were assigned to 'M' of the 4th Infantry Div. Our first day we were..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Wrong Yellow Footprints
I enlisted in the Marines in May 1968 from Decatur, IL, was processed through St. Louis, MO, and put on..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
A lesson in "growing-up".
I joined the USAF after graduating from high school in 1958. I had been working for the local newspaper for..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Basic Training Memories
After waiting to be called for US Army pilot-navigator training for over three months, I enlisted USN in the Navy..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Why not, Minot?
After receiving my masters degree in 1967, I enlisted in the Air Force hoping to fly. I was sent to..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Sir Your Target Is Broken
Richard Nixon sent me an invitation to report for induction to Ft. Knox, KY., January 1972. It was my college..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING
Run That Hill!
I had been in Boot Camp for about 11 weeks. That was the week that our Company spent firing the..
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