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Nice Toys Jarhead! (LOL) Welcome to the club!

Pat

I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome, I'm releativly new to this internet thing and the welcome means a lot.

Pat, UHHH RAAA !!! Yea they are toys. Gotta tell you guys this--- No Marine of any rank could afford all of this stuff, and I spent 30 years in the Corps retired a E-9 Master Gunnery Sergeant. So you should know I don't have any money.

But fate deals some of us a good hand right before she slaps us back down to earth. I married a beatiful rich woman with real bad eye sight. That was the good hand, three months after the I Do's she got dealt a real s/-//t hand. I was in one of those far away lands when some group of little people got real P Q'd that me and my Recon team were there, Imagine that? How unfriendly of them!! We after all were just out for a stroll before our supper. At any rate I will spare you the Gory details but lets say i got a nice Helo ride with a lot of people who seemed to be worrying about how much fluids I needed, was consuming or maybe it was leaking.

Joanne my wonderful almost blind wife sent a full grown Marine off to work one morning. What came home almost two years later was a damn big mess. That was a few years ago, today its better than it was and maybe tomorrow it will be even better. But my wife feels the toys help, and I'm not telling her any different.

Once again guys thanks for the welcome.

Roland

Hombre, thank you for your service; and welcome!!

Roland. Not bad making E-9. Don't see to many of those. Sound like you will fit in here real nice. Welcome.

Gunny...sorry to hear about your episode in the bush with the little people.

Let's just say that one of the guys in the Helo was probably one of my brother corpsmen. Fortunately, I didn't make it to Nam, but was a corpsman from 1965-1969. Got injured while in Camp Lejeune during FMF training. While inthe hospital for 6 months, I got orders for the 3rd Mar Div twice. Last duty station was in Quantico, VA. Welcome aboard Marine! UHHHH RAAAA!

Pat

Roland...saw a cute little bumper sticker that reminds me of you. It said

Not as lean, not as mean but......
ALWAYS a Marine!


Pat

Pat, Well that "Last" incident didn't happen in the Nam it was over 25 years later, as I said I was in the Corps for 30 years and I was in Nam. Marines Pat as you well know have a very soft spot for "THERE" Corpsman. They are the best in the world, Thank God they have been there each and everytime we have needed them. I am sure that a couple of those kids that day and in that Helo were in fact your Brothers, they sure as hell are mine, even if they are Navy. While I was in the hospital at Bethesda Naval Hospital ( another place full of your brothers) My wife bought me this shirt to keep this old Marine out of too much trouble with those Canoe Club members. All of them Harbor Ducks seemed to like it.

Pat thank you son, Marines as I said hold Navy Corpsman ( we call them fleet Marines) in a special place. We all owe you a dept we can never pay. Semper Fi !!

Roland