That is kinda weird isn't it?

HEY! I was in F-1-5 in the exact same time frame! EXACT!! Tell me more! I only lasted 77 days, and got processed out due to a heart condition aggravated by the La. heat---so I spent some interesting time , like three full weeks, in a holdover barracks in the vicinity......amazing experience, full of stuff and characters no one would believe who hasn't been there.

@@williamcervetti1455 I assume you were drafted, right? I volunteered for the draft when I signed up with Selective Service, office in Berwyn, Il. Got my draft notice on Christmas Eve, ordered to report downtown Chicago Jan 6, took my physical and was on a plane for Ft Polk that night. Almost got drafted into the Marines. Now that's a strange and funny story I don't tell much cuz it's one that's hard to believe. Polk was a bear, abusive, sadistic, foul mouthed drill sergeants, bad weather, no sleep, meningitis scare (guy in the barracks next to us died of it), sleeping with the windows open in winter, hot as hell though when we graduated. I remember the sand and mud, and eating standing up in the rain with food floating around in those steel mess trays. PT every day, those horizontal ladders you had to do back and forth before getting into the mess hall. So where are you from? Did they discharge you outright or did they have you keep coming back? I knew one guy, rejected at first (heart murmur I think) they reclassified that way.

HI took me over an hour to find this reply of yours, though i did connect it to a recent search for the Ft Polk yearbook --anyway numerous glitches with my password and forgetting which email I registered with on youtube. SO I JUST now saw this. Much to relate. I have become somewhat obsessed with the whole Basic Training story, and some years back reconnected with my bunkmate and really talented drummer still living in Las Vegas after successfully working as a drummer in all the Vegas venues with some big names for years. I will save the real communication for when I get home in a few hours, I am at Wegman's superstore here in Bergen County NJ--- I repair over here for privacy and to buy tomorrow's Racing Form at the 7-11 nearby, which always has it ,,,,later "young trooper"!@@hiramnoone

Hey there---I don't know why that below from 8 hours ago displayed that way, or why the one short message I wrote just now apologizing for not having time tonight as promised doesn't show up at all. I suggested b/c of the nature of the stories I had to tell that it not be done on this youtube thread to be seen by the eyes of strangers. Maybe a priv message on FB or regular email? Up to you.@@hiramnoone

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Thank you for your Service!

I was there at the same time B/3/2

No bolo either sept. 1966

Didn't want a bolo helmet

Yes they ues 40mm port.

Thank you for your Service!

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I was delta 3-5 in March 1980. Cool

I had Bronchitis and I had to condense the film a little so I had to speed some of it up to down load the whole thing, but I felt it was ok for this you can sill under sand me, So I went with it, other then the voice did you like the whole thing I was happy with it! I'm getting better the more I play with the editing I think. For doing the whole thing all by my self don't you think!