Old boot camp graduation pictures

[Ed Palmer]

April 1956
Plt 240
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v733/Ed15Palmer/Edpalmer1956001.jpg


Thats me 2nd row from top left 3rd man in

[Joseph P Carey]

Platton 132 PI 1964

Third from the left front row. We didn't have Blues!

[lucien2]

Couldn't scan my graduation picture (framed), but I found this one of me and my DI..........

[Joseph P Carey]

Originally posted by lucien2
Couldn't scan my graduation picture (framed), but I found this one of me and my DI..........

Damn! You look familiar Lucien! :-) Does anyone remember the Road Guard?

[lucien2]

Remember this nightmare?

[radio relay]

It's the only picture I have left with me in it from those years.

Platoon 2006
Summer 1968, MCRD San Diego.

Hmmm the damned thing won't upload for some reason! Posting to this forum can be very frustrating at times... I'll try again

[Old Marine]

Road Guards out---Road Guards in.

Sometimes they came back and sometimes you lost um.

[Joseph P Carey]

Originally posted by Old Marine
Road Guards out---Road Guards in.

Sometimes they came back and sometimes you lost um.

A couple of times I thought I was not going back into formation!

How about being chased by your DI on the Four Mile Run?

[lucien2]

Get off my bus now! FLY turds!

[radio relay]

The Gods of the forum have blessed my bootcamp platoon picture http://imagehost.biz/ims/pictes/209214.gif

Platoon 2006, MCRD SD, summer of 1968.
http://www.leatherneck.com/photopost/data/500/6045botcamp_pic.jpg
Drill Instructors (left to right) SSgt Sigman, GySgt Ortiz, Sgt Dukes.

I'm in the back, top row, 5th from the left.

[Old Marine]

Hey Radio Relay:

I was on the Drill Field when you pic's were taken. Knew Ortiz and Dukes. I was in "E" Co. as Plt Commander and "G" Company as Series GYSGT.Graduated D.I. School in 1966.

[radio relay]

Thanks Gunny, for being there to turn us into Marines!

Man, it's been almost forty years ago, but seems just like yesterday!

[ElderCreature]

If any one has any Pictures from Plt 348 or a book for the same would like to see. This would be at San Diego 1960

[greensideout]

Originally posted by ElderCreature
If any one has any Pictures from Plt 348 or a book for the same would like to see. This would be at San Diego 1960

I have a Plt 371 of 1960. It shows some other Plt's as well. Let me know if you have an intrest.

[radio relay]

http://www.leatherneck.com/photopost/data/500/6045copy_of_boot.jpg
Posted for SSgt Renfro, by radio relay

[Joseph P Carey]

A few days past my Seventeenth Birthday.

I don't ever remember being this young! I don't ever remember looking that young! I don't ever remember being young from that day forward! I was a Marine!!!

[carroll1972]

Hey guys....I graduated in June 1972.......Plt...1021...

been 33 years...now......and like you said.......I don't remember being that young........When I was that young.....IT WATCHED ME SHAVE....every morning.....

NOW I CAN ONLY HOPE ....IT SEES ME TIE MY SHOES.....

LOL.....

[carroll1972]

Will look my plt up...and post it here..too......SURE WOULD LOVE TO GET IN TOUCH WITH SOME OF THESE GUYS I SERVED WITH BEING TRYING NOW FOR ABOUT 25 YEARS...WONDER HOW MANY IS STILL IN AND HOW MANY IS STILL ALIVE.......IF ANY OF YOU READ THIS AND SEVERED WITH ME......LET ME HEAR FROM YOU.....LIVE IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.....FIXING TO RETIRE NEXT YEAR AND MOVE TO SAM RAYBURN LAKE......AND FISH.......WATCH THE GRASS GROW....

CAN'T BELIEVE....HOW QUICK...TIME HAS FLOWN.......

CARROLL1972

[carroll1972]

Now that you've posted the one of my favorites....Gomer.....reminds me of the time......(here we go)....Was on a Sunday ....Sgt Earnest...walks into the squad bay...and yells......anybody in here want to call mama.....

You know everybody....was hollering..and got excited.....

Sgt. Earnest "hit the road".....naturally....everyone....hit the road in formation.....

Sgt. Earnest the marched our little asses...around the back where we wash our clothes....(in the H hotels)....
Sgt Earnest yells....."NOW...CALL MAMA....!!!!!!
we call mama...at the top of our lungs..for 30 minutes......every platoon that passed.....slowed down...and you know they were laughing under their breath.....GOD...I FELT AS BIG AS A REDBUG .....chigger....for you city boys...

CARROLL1942

[BOOGIEMAN44]

I REMEMBER THE FRIST NIGHT IN BOOT, WE JUST GOT OUR "SPEACH" FROM THE COMPANY COMMANDER, ON HOW TO BE GOOD MARINES, THEN THE DI"S TOOK OVER, EVERY BODY IN TO THE HEAD, AND START SHAVING, I LOOKED INTO THE MIRROR, AND SAID SHAVE WHAT??? WAS I THAT YOUNG AT ONE TIME, THE DI CAME OVER AND WAS, WELL, YOU KNOW," ASKING ME" AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNG CAPACITY, TO START SHAVING OR HE WOULD DO IT FOR ME, I SHAVED IN BOOT CAMP FOR THE FRIST TIME THAT NIGHT, USING THE DUMMY HEAD THAT CAME ON THE RAZOR... WELCOME TO BOOT CAMP SHAVING 101...

[GySgtRet]

I can't upload pictures even though I put in to post in this path. Oh well.

[Old Marine]

Being old and senile, could someone explain how to transfer pictures on a PC.