Today is the 49th anniversary of reporting for Navy boot camp. I've been feeling every ache and pain I earned on active duty, and then some.
Yep, that's me: the tall, skinny goober. I'm a bit shorter and several bits wider, these days.
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
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BZ, and thank you for your service. I July of 1973 I had just started working at Fermilab.
Aren't we all a bit shorter and wider these days?
You all be safe and God bless.
Thank you, drjim. Part of me wishes I could go back and do it again. But the smarter part would pick up where I left off, and climb higher. :)
Linda, you're not supposed to point that out. Heh.
51 years for me, and yes, I hurt... But I would do it all over again!
That doesn't surprise me, sir. I'd go again in a heartbeat, if it were possible.
Recruit Company 241, RTC, NTC, Great Lakes, summer of 1965 anyone else out there remember their service number or am I that old?
Concur with all do it all over again and climb higher.
Thank you, Senior Chief, for all you did to support the sailors under your tutelage and control. Re: the service number, the Navy had transitioned from service numbers to the SSN shortly before I enlisted in March '73, so I didn't have the alphanumeric - but my dad did, in Korea, and he could recite it upon request until the day he passed.
Going on 42 years for me, Reverend! Joined in NOV80, retired as CPO JUL02.
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