OT: a question for the jarheads

[grumpyman]

When I was at boot camp in San Diego in 1973 I could see across the fence in the airport some world war II vintage Japanese aircraft. My memory tells me there was more than one of these aircraft. Does anyone remember these airplanes? What model aircraft were they and what happened to them?

[rogueusmc]

I went through in the late '80s and didn't see anything like that.[&:]

[ChezDaJez]

I went through Navy bootcamp at San Diego in 1972 and didn't see anything like that either. Of course, our company commanders were very good at keeping our eyes focused on the task at hand so I didn't get to look around much. Plus the USMC boot camp was between us and the airport so who would want to look their way anyhow?

Chez

[grumpyman]

ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

I went through Navy bootcamp at San Diego in 1972 and didn't see anything like that either. Of course, our company commanders were very good at keeping our eyes focused on the task at hand so I didn't get to look around much. Plus the USMC boot camp was between us and the airport so who would want to look their way anyhow?

Chez

You guys were at the other end of the airport from where those planes were. When we ran to the back gate and back we were in that strip between you and the airport. I would see you guys sitting around your barracks while we were running and wish I joined the navy[:D][:D]

[ChezDaJez]

I would see you guys sitting around your barracks while we were running and wish I joined the navy

[:D][:D][:D]

We would see you guys running and counting cadence and would thank god we had joined the Navy!!!

Chez

[rogueusmc]

NTC is no longer there Chez...it's part of MCRD now.

As for the airport...

There was nothing but the PT field between our barracks and that airport. We'd be in the rack at night seeing those planes take off and wish we were on every one of them.

Semper Fi,
Lee

[grumpyman]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

NTC is no longer there Chez...it's part of MCRD now.

As for the airport...

There was nothing but the PT field between our barracks and that airport. We'd be in the rack at night seeing those planes take off and wish we were on every one of them.

Semper Fi,
Lee

I rode past the front gate of mcrd this spring. The road past is a freeway now not road. That front gate still gives me the creeps. It was night and very scary the first time I pasted though it.[:)]

[rogueusmc]

You know what I thought when I went through them?

[grumpyman]

ORIGINAL: rogueusmc

You know what I thought when I went through them?

I don't know, but I thought what did I get myself into.

[rogueusmc]

My thoughts exactly were...and I remember them to this day...

"Oh s$%t...Lee, you are a dumbass."[:D]

[rogueusmc]

Then you pulled up in front of receiving...

The biggest, blackest man I had ever seen, with the whitest teeth I ever seen, came onto the buss with that smokey the bear hat on and smiles bigger than life. He welcomed us to Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California and that during our twelve week stay, we will be turned into Marines. He told us that when we got off the bus in a nice, orderly fashion, we were to get on the yellow footprints and stand there...

Then someone flipped a switch on this guy and he got pissed off all of a sudden...we were tryiong to crawl out the windows of the bus to get away from him[:D]

Lee

[grumpyman]

For us, the driver parked the bus told us to wait there. We sat in the bus what seems an hour but was probably only a minute two. Then a gang of DIs came out and started banging on the bus and yelling. "get off the F***ing bus! Get on the yellow footprints!"

[Ian R]

So full metal jacket was TTL then?

[tsimmonds]

Kubrick was always TTL

[rogueusmc]

Pretty close...

[rogueusmc]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

Kubrick was always TTL

A Clockwork Orange?[:D]

[grumpyman]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

So full metal jacket was TTL then?

The boot camp in full medal lasted 1 hr. The one I went to lasted 11 weeks. All the creative swearing in FMJ was not original I heard those lines first in boot camp and more.

[tsimmonds]

Just because it was fiction, doesn't mean it was not TTL, oh my brothers[;)]

[tsimmonds]

ORIGINAL: grumpyman

ORIGINAL: Ian R

So full metal jacket was TTL then?

The boot camp in full medal lasted 1 hr. The one I went to lasted 11 weeks. All the creative swearing in FMJ was not original I heard those lines first in boot camp and more.

The DI was absolutely real. He was a Marine DI who was hired as a dialogue consultant. He was so perfect that he got the part in the picture.

[rogueusmc]

NOT LUDWIG VAN!!![8D]