New Jersey post sends Coasties home for the holidays
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New Jersey post sends Coasties home for the holidays

Stone Harbor, NJ
For the second year in a row, Stephen C. Ludlam American Legion Post 331 of Avalon and Stone Harbor, N.J.,..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Remembering an embarrassing moment in basic training

In March of 1965, I enlisted in the Air Force/Women in the Air Force (WAF) Division from Chesapeake, Va., and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Time to get serious

We were about two-thirds through basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in 1963. It was time for bayonet..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Weekend pass

August 1969: graduation! I walked off the parade field to be congratulated by my girlfriend, her brother, her mother and..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Inspection

Halfway through basic training in August 1969 at Fort Knox, Ky., our company was informed we were to prepare for..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Unwilling service

Surprisingly during basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., we were assigned a drill instructor who was a draftee. Staff Sgt...
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Marines? I thought I'd joined the Navy
MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Marines? I thought I'd joined the Navy

It was 1968; I had flunked out of college, and getting drafted was imminent. I looked into all the service..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

The Civil War saved me

One day at Fort Benning, Ga., the drill sergeant had us all open our lockers and then "toe the line,"..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Calling home

Toward the end of basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., a Reserve drill sergeant temporarily filled in for one of..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

One for the president

I was in basic training at Fort Benning, Ga., while George W. Bush was president. One day when the..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Basic Training

I left for Basic Training on October 15, 1971 for Ft. Knox and E-15-4 was to be my home for..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Got one over on the D.I.

March 23, 1970 through June 23, 1970 A Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, Fort Lewis, WA My fondest memory from Basic Training..
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Summer of '68
MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Summer of '68

It was August 1968. I was in Air Force basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. I enlisted in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Frustration on the rifle range

My basic training was January 1972 at Fort Knox, Ky. We marched to the range for qualifying in some brutal..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

The squirrel of Parris Island, S.C.

In August 1966, I was in Platoon 3082 at Parris Island, S.C. My mother sent me a..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

The best shot in the Marine Corps

When I went to Boot Camp at Parris Island, SC in 1969, the Marine Corps had 300,000 members on active..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Remember Basic Training

I attended Air Force Basic Training at Amarillo AFB, TX in August 1968. We were one of the last flights to..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Jumping off into the deep end at basic

I joined the Navy in 1961 at 17, recently graduated from high school and with no thought at all about..
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Different paths, one wrong turn
MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Different paths, one wrong turn

We were both young, ambitious 17-year-old kids from New York and New Jersey in basic training at Lackland Air Force..
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One More Name On The Wall
IN YOUR OWN WORDS

One More Name On The Wall

As I traveled through a small town in America, I happened to notice an old gentleman praying in front of..
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2013 was Riders Post 4's year to make history again
LEGION RIDERS

2013 was Riders Post 4's year to make history again

Pocatello, ID
“Pocatello is the State's Chapter” In May 2003 Post 4, Pocatello, became the first American Legion Riders chapter in..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

'We've got us a fat one!'

When I joined the Army in April 1969, I was about 260 pounds and not in great shape. When..
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Great Americans: The Founders
IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Great Americans: The Founders

Ten great Americans are profiled, among them are: Captain Isaac Davis (the original Minuteman and inspiration for the National Guard..
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Coast Guard basic training in 1959
MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Coast Guard basic training in 1959

I joined the Coast Guard on July 14, 1959 and went to Cape May, N.J. The first morning the staff..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

M&M's

During my basic training, there was this one recruit who was older than most of us, and when we would..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Central Issue Facility canvas

Attending Army basic training in 1981 at Fort Sill, Okla., as a 17 year old fresh off the Minnesota farm..
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Marine learns drill instructors can't be outfoxed

Our boot platoon was being punished for some failure on our part by doing countless exercises in the "sand pit."..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

Thanks to Sgt. Howard Sill

I went through basic training in 1961 at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. My platoon leader was Staff Sgt. Howard Sill...
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What I remember most of my basic training
MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

What I remember most of my basic training

What I remember most about basic training wasn't the forced night march; it wasn't learning to fire a weapon, nor..
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MEMORIES OF BASIC TRAINING

World War II vet's stories from basic training

After my graduation from high school in Royal, Iowa, in May 1943, I joined the Army and was sent to..
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