Another Marine Corps First !!!

[Boondox]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Semper Fi

Served as corpsman 2/12 3rd Mar Div Vietnam 67-68. Got a chance to have my picture taken with Gen Tommy Franks last week. I had a very tiny USMC pin on my jacket. Tommy Franks looked down and saw my pin and said Semper Fi. I said "Vietnam 67-68".
HE said "Welcome home" to me. That's the first time that had been said to me. Not bad coming from a 4 star!

Semper Fi to all of you jar heads! )</font>

Flag officers were always pretty cool IMO. Guess once you reach the stars it's okay to have a sense of humor.

Before my very first deployment my rifle company was being inspected by the Commandant himself! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I had never been thru a Marine-style inspection before, so asked all my buddies what sort of questions I might be asked by the General. I memorized it all, and on the morning of the inspection I was ready with all the rates of fire, muzzle velocities, etc of every weapon in our unit.

So the general stands in front of me, never looks at my pistol, and asks, "Doc, what's the navy's birthday?"

I had no idea! I was utterly clueless! But being nothing if not quick on my feet, I bellowed out my reply. "SIR, the only birthday that matters to me is 10 November 1775, SIR!"

There was a moment of shocked silence, then the general turned to my CO and said in a soft voice, "Take care of this man, Captain. He's going places!" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

Boondox,

That, my friend, if a frist rate answer!!!!!!!!!!!


Eddie Walker
USMC
83-88

 

[Varmintmist]

Thats some fast thinking for a Squid on the hot plate /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif About any other one would have earned you a hard time cause you KNOW that was his plan.

82-86 University of Science Music and Culture /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Cityboyfarmer]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 82-86 University of Science Music and Culture /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif First time I heard that one! Nearly spit my drink on the monitor!

Squid on a hot plate /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif That was a great answer Boondocks! Gotta love those Corpsmen!

So..What did you study at the University, Varmintmist?

 

[Varmintmist]

6333, one wire on EA-6B's.

I used that after I got out and went to college. Told all the young ladies that I transfered from the U of SMC. If they were hippie weenies they never got it but I still could. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif If they had a brain they thought it was funny and I still had a in.
I was a apolitical HO. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[bczoom]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( 6333, one wire on EA-6B's.)</font>

I finally recalled my MOS (6324).

Hmmm. Varmintmist. I wonder if we may have bumped into each other at all working on EA6-B's?
I was in MAG-14, VMAQ-2 in the end of '82 and the first 1/2 of '83. Worked in the electronics trailers outside the hangers. Were you anywhere around there? Were you at NAS Millington (TN) in '83?

 

[Boondox]

Jeez, I actually remember mine too! 8404 -- official graduate of the Camp Lejeune School of Barbaric Medicine! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MikePA]

For anyone who served during the Viet Nam era, here's a link, Click Here, for MOSs.

 

[bczoom]

Here is a list of newer ones.

 

[Mtrman]

I served from 85-91. My mos was a 1345 heavy equipment operator.
Sgt Rau

Semper Fi