(September 15, 2018 at 8:17 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I divide my school years up in two grand parts, pre-11-22-63 and post-. Then May, 29, 1969, joined the USN. Mar. 13, 1972, was another milestone. After that it was marriage, college, marriage, marriage, marriage.
I pussied out here. I arrived for duty with a squadron of river boats on detached duty on Jan. 14th, 1970. Two years later I was due to rotate back to the world when I was offered a job with the local government, teaching their people to use the boats. Another two years in country. As I was getting a "stipend" equal to three times my Navy salary I could live with this. However, just two months later, on a training cruise, all five of our boats were hit from both banks by RPGs. A mother beautiful ambush. One survivor out of twenty-five men. That's my one of my landmarks.
