Recent content by Rook58

I like Cougar's story above... which turned out to be the bigger pain, the headache (if that didn't ring your bell hard enough to inflict a concussion, it must have been close), or the following eleven years of harassment?

Take good care, mkloby - Semper Fi!

61 F., cloudy and clammy, light rain coming and going, wind starting to rise judging by the trees visible through the windows. I was going to switch the house over from the heater to the swamp cooler today, but the heater kicked on a little while ago, and the thermostat is set at just under 60...

Yeah, that "Band of Brothers" aspect means so much... there aren't many brands of civilians that grasp that. It's one of the things so many of us miss, I think. That's probably one reason a lot of cops are vets. In grad school (counseling psychology program) we had a course on understanding...

Thx - I still think there are more colorful people and ridiculous events in the military, along with the serious side and the stuff that hurts, than in anything else people do. It always kind of cracks me up when I see military people portrayed as grim and robotic in some of the media, because...

Actually, once I did get a chance to shoot at planes - sort of. I was the newest butterbar lieutenant at MCAS Yuma, so I got assigned to be the Smoky Sam officer for one evolution of the WTI course... they would load me and a handful of Marines into a helo and fly us to some hill out in the...

One more time. During that same cold weather training deployment to Fuji, we usually had weekend liberty, and a bunch of us went to Yokosuka and got tattoos. The artist we went to was great - been getting comments on the two tattoos I got there for thirty years since then. Two weird tattoo...

Jim the Greek From out of the west came Jim the Greek, With forty pounds of swinging meat. But mother nature played him one mean trick, he was the only man with a corkscrew d**k. From dawn to dusk Jim continued his hunt, Looking for a woman with a corkscrew c***. At last he found her and...

Thanks - another from early in the career: While I was with Kilo 3/4, 3rd MarDiv, a PFC in the 60mm mortar section, we were at Camp Fuji in January for cold weather training. There was exactly one day we got to actually fire our crew-served weapons (this was during the Carter administration...

Can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated with all things military in general and warplanes specifically - I was drawing pictures of WW2 aircraft a lot in grade school and read everything I could find about air combat in WW1 (also drew about a million pictures of Snoopy and his...

A couple from boot camp: 1. On a conditioning march right after we got to Pendleton for the rifle range; we'd already been going for several miles and everyone's bladders were getting close to bursting. When one guy requested an emergency head call, the senior drill instructor halted the...

USMC 76-96, in at 17 as a private, commissioned in 85, retired as a captain. Started as a grunt (0341, mortarman, cross-trained as a machine gunner and platoon radio operator) - and nope, Der Adler, I'm not sorry, it was a great way to get to blow things up... at the time, every time I saw...