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"hi tony welcome aboard..it has been 47 years since i was in navy. i was researching the new HYT an ERB (which we did not have when iu was in either) when i ran across about the ribbons noticed that rexcurters also get ribbons also....."
"welcome aboard..think you are the most time in service i know."
"When I retired in 97 they still allowed E5 and E6 to stay until they had 20 yrs in so they could retired. Don't know about now"
"I remember in boot camp in 1950, they would assemble us out by the barracks with our seabag and have us dump everything out and then a 3rd class would say "reach down in that pile and pull out a flat hat, everybody got one? there is always a 10…"
"I was issued a flat hat in August 1961 during boot camp.I never wore it. "
"The Navy has been giving those things for at least 25 years.......it's nothing new."
"lol
lot has changed , when i was in if you were on shore overseas you were drunk"
lot has changed , when i was in if you were on shore overseas you were drunk"
"joined ,think about last may first part of june (hazy memory after 50 years) remember company # 277 think about 9-13 weeks ( sombody let me know duration) remeber old barracks, tear gas room, fiting fire in training."
"and after we graduated before we left san diego a bunch of us went toTJ...imagine a bunch of 18 year old kids in Tijuana"
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Ben I was in Company 278 1962.
Started May 28, 1962, don't remember date graduated. Chief P.L. Samuelson, MMC was the CC. What an "Old Sea Dog" was he. That was over 50 years ago.