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I just found out by a DM that banjomike and myself graduated from the same bootcamp, on the same day, nearly 52 years ago............December 23
What a coincidence !
Yup. Crazy, isn't it? I can't remember what company I was in anymore, but it must have been very close to yours. Only a day or two apart, probably. We might have been next door to each other all the way through boot.
I have a lifelong friend since childhood who enlisted in the Navy about 6 months after me. Through sheer coincidence, he was with me in San Diego while we were both in different A schools, and his was shorter than mine, so we graduated at the same time.
And when I was stationed in Norfolk afterwards, so was he, on a different ship. And we even spent time together later on in the Med, when both our ships were on different cruises there at the same time.
I first met him when I was 8. He lived about 4 houses away, through the neighbor's back yards.
We both went our own ways after the Navy, but now, over 50 years later, he's back to living in the house he grew up in, and I'm back on the same street, but I'm now living in my first girlfriend's old house, a couple of blocks up the street.
I'm still amazed at how all that worked out. What are the odds?
Sorry I never got to meet you Dave. Who knows? I think we could have been in some transfer barracks or other at the same time, from the looks of it.
E Company, 3rd Training BN, 1st Training BDE (E-3-1)
More good memories than bad ones... I figured I forgot about most of the bad ones!! I was only 17 y/o at the time and it was a real eye opener to life. Zero regrets. Stayed Active Duty for 12 years and another 12 years in the Reserve, but as a MP. After leaving Active Duty, I got into a well paying career with the federal government and retired from them a few years ago. Often wondered how things would have been if I stayed 20 years in the Army and stayed in Tanks. I figured I would have made E-8 at the most, but retired as an E-7, so not too bad... Retired from the federal government as a GS-13, so I'm basically happy with life after the military.
February 1990 Orlando, Florida followed by Navy Nuclear Machinist Mate A school. Dropped out of Nuclear Power school.
Tough school. How long did you last?
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