Tant01

What are the odds?

Back in HS I had a classmate named Robert. Out of more than 30,000 kids to apply for (the last year for) the YCC he and I were both selected. I met him at summer camp. We cleaned up campgrounds and picnic areas, cleared trails up Bear Mtn. and climed Mt Hood. We built a log raft and drifted around Clear lake on it.

A couple years later I'm standing in line at the chow hall down in SanDiego Ca, Just one of several thousand new recrutes and who do I see across the room marching in. That's right... my buddy Robert. We got like five minutes to eat no time to chat we say a few words, he thinks I'm lucky to be in a "Drill" company 904.


Turns out we would have time to talk later in "A" school... I met him again in Millington, Tn. at the technical training command!


Later all...

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"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

James Paterson

BoarSpear

so was walking into town fun or what? talk about a group of locals who liked to give us trouble...all we wanted to do was get to the rip van winkle on the corner! I assume you did the pub crawl in overton square? wasnt the "diver" at silky sullivans a bitch?

Tant01

Or what! I didn't do the pub thing back then, I would catch hops to distant bases and see if I could make it back before I went AWOL... Some good fishing holes back there on the East side of the big river.


Meanwhile back in NATTC, I spent more than three months TAD due to schedualing conflicts. I got stuck in the buffer repair shop for some SERIOUSLY EASY duty...

Might have more fun than the GSE Pool!

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"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

James Paterson

BoarSpear

yeah the good ole days of the animal house and the gse pool ...lol only the navy would have put mustang engines in yellow gear...we used to pop the governers and race, i had forgot all that ...what kind of bee has wings but cant fly?

BoarSpear

whoa it just hit me you were hopping flights with the thunderchickens!?! do you remember the old farmer that took his shotgun to a couple of thier birds for scaring his chickens? how ironic was that? i spent alot of tad time as well between afram , B double E and A school...so did you ever ride the bulls on northside? i did once it was 2 times two many... or snowball fight the Marines? who's idea was it to put thier barracks by the chow hall anyway ?
i guess you a certified buffer rider though..lol jesus that was fun....probably pissed off the guys who had to fixem though

Tant01

Yeah, I took a flight whenever and where ever... sometimes it would be from another base but yeah I've jumped the big birds too. I never heard that story... too funny.

Bulls? No. Snowball fights? No. I was there from like may to aug/ sept.
The guy fixing them buffers was ME. We switched gears there from the cast metal alloys to the new carbon fiber ones! They weren't much better but they were a lot more quiet... You know,... the gears are the parts that break when you guys try to RIDE them! LOL

__________________

"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

James Paterson