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Days away from completing boot camp, this remains visceral. Marching into the adult world immediately out of HS in this fashion was eye opening, to say the least. Offering direction to determine work choices it, fortunately, worked.
Days away from completing boot camp, this remains visceral. Marching into the adult world immediately out of HS in this fashion was eye opening, to say the least. Offering direction to determine work choices it, fortunately, worked.
I still remember the first words out of my boot camp company commander. "Welcome to the real world. Your mama ain't here to do things for you now. Better get ******* used to it"!!!!
My selective service classification coming in the mail, and I don't want to go to Vietnam. So I enlisted in the Air Force,hoping it would help avoid that situation. It did keep me from a year assignment there, but not temporary assignments.
I remember turning 18 my first year in college and feeling quite cheated. I had left New Jersey, where the drinking age was 18, to go to school in Illinois, where the drinking age was 19. I missed the "turning 18" rite of passage of going out and ordering my first drink that most of my friends had experienced our senior year in high school.
Kind of interesting that the two things that seem to pop up most frequently are 1) drinking and 2) Vietnam.
At that time, in California the only way to legally drink at 18 was to go on-base.
I have never registered for the draft.
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