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gkmoz
08-23-18, 07:43 AM
Fifty years ago today Aug.23,1968 I stepped off that bus and onto those famous yellow footprints at Parris Island S.C. at O-Dark-Thirty ! such a lovely place and what a way to end the summer ? haha :)

irpat54
08-23-18, 07:50 AM
wow, brother, it was Aug 23 for me as well, just it was 1973 for me. San Diego

gkmoz
08-23-18, 10:57 AM
Fifty years ago today Aug.23,1968 I stepped off that bus and onto those famous yellow footprints at Parris Island S.C. at O-Dark-Thirty ! such a lovely place and what a way to end the summer ? haha :)


Same Date huh ? 45 is a long time ago as well? wouldn't change a thing ! it was the right thing at the right time for me :)

irpat54
08-23-18, 11:00 AM
me as well, I was, at first just trying to decide whether I wanted to follow in the footsteps of my Dad uncles and brothers, but after working for a bit I decided that I just didn't want to be adrift anymore and I needed to make a decision.
it wound up being the smartest thing I ever did...

USMC 2571
08-23-18, 12:36 PM
LONG time ago-----seems like a hundred years ago and sometimes it seems almost like yesterday---I wondered why I don't recall the yellow footprints, then did some research and found out they didn't even have them, yet, in late 1963, so that explained it for me....wondering how I remembered so much yet not the yellow prints

Mongoose
08-23-18, 04:39 PM
1967 for me....

gkmoz
08-23-18, 07:09 PM
1967 for me....


What are you saying? I'ma boot right :)

Kegler300
08-23-18, 07:18 PM
Congrats on your anniversary. I'm the boot at 43 years ...

advanced
08-24-18, 07:50 AM
50 years ago today I was taking boo koo walks in the park out in the Arizona. I landed in PI mid January 1967.

oldtop
08-24-18, 09:26 AM
Russ... didja find that can of peaches and the 4 pack of "Chesterfields" I left for ya out there??? 53 years ago August I was just arriving "in-country".....

advanced
08-24-18, 09:28 AM
No, some starving brother already got to those, but I did find the pound cake and some lucky strikes.

gkmoz
08-24-18, 09:38 AM
No, some starving brother already got to those, but I did find the pound cake and some lucky strikes.


First time I ever ate pound cake was in the C-rats haha :) loved the pineapple as well Mmmmm...seemed I always got the Chesterfields in mine?

jb33
02-01-19, 05:15 PM
I don't remember what date i got into boot camp but i did graduate on 19 January 1951 which figures out to 68 plus years ago that i was in the corps. It seems like a faint memory of that time but i still have vivid memories of boot camp and i still feel that pride of being a marine. Now I'm in the twilight of my life and reminisce quite often about those days.

Mongoose
02-02-19, 05:38 AM
Damn James....your C-rats came with a bag of tobacco and rolling papers.

advanced
02-02-19, 07:43 AM
In the future those c-rats need to hold a lot more toilet paper for when everyone has the dysentery. These are the stories of the Corps no one wants to know about.

Mongoose
02-02-19, 04:39 PM
That's right Russ....It got so bad sometimes, I swear you got to where you could recognize the Marines in your Squad by looking at their bare ass while they were squatting and shetting...