Marine6468
11-09-2006, 07:11 AM
I was Marine Corps - 64 - 68, Aviation Electrician and no, I did not make it to Viet Nam - not for a lack of trying rather someone in their impotent wisdom never saw fit to issue me orders. In point of fact, I did not make it far from home - literally. I enlisted on the northside of Chicago, SD for bootcamp, Pendelton for ITR, Memphis for school assignment, NAS JAX for school and then to NAS Glenview, Il (all of 10.9 miles from my parents home) for 34.5 months.
BUT - the reason I would like to brag deals with my youngest step son. He did three years at UNC Wilmington, was an athlete and spent more time with athletics than with academics. He decided to go into the military - good choice for him. I strongly suggested that he go in the Marine Corps - his reply? "No, No, NO...don't want to do that...to much work, yadda yadda!" So he decides to go Navy. He is a smart kid, smart enough to become a Corpsman. Then, just into his basic Corpsman school he elects to become a Corpsman of Marines. He will, IMHO, be doing one of the hardest jobs in the Marine Corps.
He is due to finish his Combat Corpsman School in Balboa at the end of this month. He will report to Camp LeJuene the first of December and then, the word he has, he will be headed to Fallujah (sp) sometime shortly thereafter. Depending on the timing, he may be there at the same time as my son-in-law who is with the Army in Baghdad. We shall see...
Just keep him in your thoughts.
BUT - the reason I would like to brag deals with my youngest step son. He did three years at UNC Wilmington, was an athlete and spent more time with athletics than with academics. He decided to go into the military - good choice for him. I strongly suggested that he go in the Marine Corps - his reply? "No, No, NO...don't want to do that...to much work, yadda yadda!" So he decides to go Navy. He is a smart kid, smart enough to become a Corpsman. Then, just into his basic Corpsman school he elects to become a Corpsman of Marines. He will, IMHO, be doing one of the hardest jobs in the Marine Corps.
He is due to finish his Combat Corpsman School in Balboa at the end of this month. He will report to Camp LeJuene the first of December and then, the word he has, he will be headed to Fallujah (sp) sometime shortly thereafter. Depending on the timing, he may be there at the same time as my son-in-law who is with the Army in Baghdad. We shall see...
Just keep him in your thoughts.