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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:14:42 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


The buildings and dress may have changed with the USMC recruit training, but
the traditions endure, including how they train and shape our young men and
women.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Meyux6Gh-...elated&search=

Those guys were my contemporaries. I had been in the Navy 3 1/2 years
then but still wasn't 21.
I got out about 1/2 year later, and went on with my life, work,
family.
Many of those guys went to Nam and it all ended there for them.
God bless them.

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:28:43 -0500, Vic Smith
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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:14:42 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


The buildings and dress may have changed with the USMC recruit training, but
the traditions endure, including how they train and shape our young men and
women.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Meyux6Gh-...elated&search=

Those guys were my contemporaries. I had been in the Navy 3 1/2 years
then but still wasn't 21.
I got out about 1/2 year later, and went on with my life, work,
family.
Many of those guys went to Nam and it all ended there for them.
God bless them.

--Vic


I second that!
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