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  • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 7 months ago
    "The Eve Of Destruction" was already where me dino's head was at when I got drafted shortly after we first landed on the Moon in 1969.
    After I and a bunch of guys were bused to an Army based from Dothan to Montgomery, Alabama, it just so happened I heard it announced, "This is the end of the month when we take Marines." Only six names were called out. Mine was one of them. Standing there, I actually imagined charging a North Vietnamese machine gun nest, screaming "Gung Ho!" like a stupidly crazed suicidal fool.
    Parris Island was so much fun! That's sarcasm. The first half of the flick, Full Metal Jacket nails what it was like there.
    Just after I graduated from basic, I learned I was being assigned to be--a supply clerk! But first I was trained to pick up about any weapon and know how to use it, such as a bloop tube or a rocket launcher
    (which I was curtly told to never call a "bazooka" ever again. Picky! Picky! Picky! Me dino was also told to never call a round a cartridge ever again). Have to admit that firing a M60 General Purpose Machine Gun was the thrill of a lifetime.
    Anyways, after I got to that supply clerk school, I was told the USMC needed admin and supply clerks "because it's recruiting all the grunts it needs".
    Long story short, I was a corporal when I managed to cut my two years as a slave three months short with what was called a "school cut" while using the GI Bill to get even for being taken captive from a much preferred civilian life.
    That flight home with an honorable discharge always looking good on a resume was the happiest day of my life. Freedom! Oh, freedom!
    Have to admit that among draftees I was one of the really lucky ones. Never got out of South and then North Carolina the whole time.
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  • Posted by $ kddr22 3 years, 7 months ago
    for a telling sarcastic look Shangra- La by the Kinks
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