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On 03/27/1954 I left this island & it has never been the same since. My 2 DIs had a going away party for me 3 days after I left their Platoon 22 & hoped they would never see my like again. Although I did take on our Junior DI when he challenged us to try and kick his butt. I got a black eye and swollen lip but he knew he was in a fight
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It changed me forever. I was a nice kid before going there. Mostly I hated it because I didn't understand it at the time (I was a pretty high-strung kid and took it way too seriously). Damn I wish I could go back. I miss being in the company of other Marines and working with them. Semper Fi, gents!
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1stSgt Stanley Geiger
It was about the same for me except I went in with the mind set of taking it one day at a time wich theDIs didn'n like and kept them on my butt for 7weeks. The career was good though
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Sgt Harlin Seritt
The DI's have a way of finding what you're all about. If you're high-strung, they know how to fix that... if you're go-with-the-flow, they know how to make you miserable too. That's their job though. Make sure you're never comfortable.
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Sure you had to put up with allot of shit. But watching the DI's go off was hilarious (as long as it wasn't on you). I have good memories (as well as bad) of my time on PI.
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I actually enjoyed BWT. And I got smoked for smiling at the rappel tower. Afterwards my heavy crooked his finger at me and whispered" Pretty fucking cool though, huh recruit?"
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
Hey Wolf...how the hell did you get that Nick???.. The only other "Wolf" I have heard of is Wolf Blitzer of CNN fame..famous for lobbing softball questions at Dems
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My Marine handle is Deadline, because I break things. Wolf came from childhood, I didn't like kids or kid stuff when I grew up, I spent most of my time in the woods looking at stuff/eating stuff/ watching animals. The grownups thought this was very odd behaviour and started referring to me as "that lone wolf kid" which eventually got shortened to Wolf.
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Sgt Tom Cunnally
Cpl (Join to see) - OK Wolf it looks like good stuff for a book or movie "A Marine Named Wolf"....I thought about writing a book about my Marine Corps years but it would only be one page; at best & the only fighting I was engaged in was in the bars in Jacksonville NC, Charlestown MA, & Boston MA.
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