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HAB911

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5. In 1969

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2019, 12:45 PM

Nov 2019

I got word from a friends mother, who had a friend on the draft board, that the next two months draft would be in the Marines. Believing that only those who really want to be a marine should be a marine, I volunteered for a third year in the Army and got my communications job. Turned out to be an excellent choice, spent a year on the DMZ in Korea, got hostile fire pay too. Spent my third year at Ft. Benning supporting OCS. Hated ever minute, but would not trade the experience for anything.

Salute!

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On Being a Military Veteran [View all] MineralMan Nov 2019 OP

No doubt, whatever you did was useful, so thanks for that. And your approach The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2019 #1

There are many who do that. If it's that important to them, MineralMan Nov 2019 #2

Mineral Man Was lucky DENVERPOPS Nov 2019 #13

I served in Vietnam in a combat role, dware Nov 2019 #3

Thank you! MineralMan Nov 2019 #4

My uncle, who died a few years ago at the age of 92, was a WWII vet. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2019 #6

Yeah, the tigers were a concern, but I never saw one while in country. dware Nov 2019 #7

In 1969 HAB911 Nov 2019 #5

thank you MineralMan onethatcares Nov 2019 #8

We share some history. USAF 1965-1969. You were a linguists I was a medic..... usaf-vet Nov 2019 #9

You were lucky they had an opening. keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #10

Me - bus ride, plane ride, bus ride, boot camp. 5 weeks out of high school keithbvadu2 Nov 2019 #11

Yeah, I remember that story. MineralMan Nov 2019 #16

I have a relative whose PTSD from Afghanistan is so bad he shuns the military adulation Arazi Nov 2019 #12

I can understand how that might be for your relative. MineralMan Nov 2019 #15

I enlisted in the Marines in 1974 SnowCritter Nov 2019 #14

It's like that for pretty much everyone in the military after WWII Major Nikon Nov 2019 #17