Recruit Training Command, San Diego, California
RTC/NTC SAN DIEGO COMPANY 270
I am hoping to connect with any of my shipmates from Company 270. Are any of you guys out there? Please say Hello.
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RTC San Diego Company 788 1968
I would like to re-connect with any recruits from co. 788 from Nov. 12, 1968- Jan 30 1969 I still have my "ANCHOR" and all the names of my company mates. We were an outstanding group of sailors and I'd like to share comments about the rest of your Naval service THAT'S COMPANY 788 Nov 68- Jan 69 RTC San…
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Lindsey,You are probably right, I think it was the sulfur smell to the boiled eggs. When we had troops aboard the chow was not great, the chow was great when in port and no troops aboard.
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Thinking about doing a trip down memory lane, Pendleton is only about 5 hours or so away. Could probably do it in a day, it would be interesting how much have changed since 77.
Mike 3/11 was in Las Pulgas, Camp Pendleton in the 70s. I don't know when they relocated to the stumps permanently. It makes sense to move the larger artillery 155 units there because we could use maximum powder charges during firing missions. At Camp Pendleton, we could only use up to charge 4 or 5. I don't remember which one.
When you were with the 11th were the battery corpsmen still in that quansethut just up the street from the gas station, it was right next the MWR facility - that had the 70's version of video games, pool tables and I think some fast food? When I was there the battalion corpsmen were berthed in the one barracks at the far end of the grinder across from the dispensary.
Feel like an old man putting in this comment. Was assigned to the 7th marines expd in Nam as they mapped DaNang.(62) Hell of a eye opener for a storekeeper.
I was with Mike Battery, 3rd Bn, 11th Marine Regiment from 1978-1980, then transferred to HQ Company, 11th Marine Regiment until 1981. I joined the Marines a few years after my Navy enlistment was over. I went through boot camp twice in San Diego. Once for the Navy and once for the Marine Corps. Since you served with the 11th Marines, you know what the term "dirty" means for sure from being in the field all those years. 29 stumps is a dirt hole.
Gregory I did my time with the "Corps" from 74 to 77. I was with the 11th Marines, 3rd and 1st Med Bats. Now a days the "stumps" has a hospital, back in our day there was only a dispensary.
It seems as one author writes, a hand dellt in a game of cards. Some hands were bad and some were good. We played the cards we got as best we could . So much was a roll of the dice, some lived and forgot, some can not forget, some died, and some lived.
Gilbert, welcome. I am formerly a USN Hospital Corpsman, 1976-1979. RTC NTC San Diego, NRMC Balboa Hospital Coprs School C , Twenty Nine Plams MAGCTC, as a corpsman with US Marines.... Was a rough go there. Anyway. I like your picture of the "Old Salt" I remember being under live fire, Chinooks, the black market, and the many great freinds I had from those days. The Navy and the Marines are a very small family indeed. No matter how long it has been, these guys are still the same young men in my memory. None of it ever becomes distant. Somewhere I hope they are old guys in their late fifties with grandchildren and faithful good dogs at heel. Never was able to find anyone after my Honorable Discharge, Other than one James Bentz of Shell Lake WS... After a while life took him to other horizions. Best Wishes. G Hunt..Eufaula Oklahoma. My first CIvilain job was as a medic working under my cousin David Aycox a Navy FMF Hospital Corpsman Vietnam. We made a lot of EMS runs together... in Oklahoma. All of those who trained me were Vietnam vets fresh from the field, with the exception of the WW 2 vets who gave us first hand infor about Pearl Harbor and their tours. One kept us standing watch over the bay at ready to give the alarm nights, he telling us at beging of the watch, " Boys, look out on the bay, see our ships, they are locked, who couild save them? No, one. I was there are Pearl, It could happen again! You will watch tonite, you will not sleep! You will give the alarm!"
Arrived on 22 Dec 1972, 3 day's before Christmas. So we had to wait about a week before we got assigned a company. R&O halt, for a week Lol. Then I got assigned to Company 002 with QM1 Gassman as C.O. I ran into him years later in Australia, Perth as a matter of fact. Walked up to him and saluted himwhile sounding out...lol He said I was the first one he ran into from our company as we was his very 1st. I never ran into anyone again after bootcamp.
Company 923 Drill, May-Jul 1984
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