Posted on Aug 11, 2016
SN Greg Wright
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I knew a kid in high school in Oregon, whom I later saw in Japan after I got stationed there (he wasn't in the military, or a dependent), and then, a few years later, saw him again in San Francisco. How about you, RP members, what are some of your unusual coincidences?
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SPC Michael Patrick
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Was helping a lady with computer help when I worked at Staples. Her accent was very familiar so I asked about it. She said she was from a little town in Germany that I probably never heard of. I asked anyway and she mentioned it was near Frankfurt. I mentioned I had been to a small town near there so she says Fulda. Me too I said. So she says her husband was in 1/11. Me too I said. Alpha Troop she said. I'm shaking my head yes, so she says 1st Platoon. Ha ha...Her (now ex)husband was the platoon sergeant that ETS'd just before I got there. She asked if I knew certain people and I knew them all. So Fulda, Germany to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Small world coincidences.
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SN Greg Wright this is a doozy. I grew up in a very poor, very small town, in the real Upstate (North Country) New York - Moira, look it up. Anyway, my class size was 42 and we were considered a BIG class. No on ever leaves Moira - however, I enlisted in the military and got as far away as I could.

Fast forward three years. I am stationed in Honolulu HI, and my buddy decides we all should go to a full nude strip club. So we go..

This stripped starts her whole deal with us, etc etc. putting her "girls" in our faces. And of course she gets to me and starts small talk. "Where are you from" - side note: I already feel like there is something weird with this girl..

So I say New York.
She says, "Oh me too, what part"
To which I respond, "Upstate".
She says "Really? How far upstate?"
I say, "All the way up"
So she asks, "what's the name of the town maybe I know it"
I say, "I doubt it, maybe you've heard of Potsdam or Malone.
At this point she stops, and asks, "What school did you go to.."
I say, "Brushton Moira"
She looked horrified and asked me, "Do you know my brother (name taken out)?"
I say, "Uh...yes. We were in the same class.."
Then it hits us - we knew eachother from school. She was a couple years ahead of me.

I shit you not, she begs me not to tell her parents and then runs to the back and doesn't come out for the rest of the night... To this day, I have never told her brother that she was a stripper or that she had her "girls" all up in my face or that I saw her naked. :P
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Lol, a true Sailor's story if there ever was one, PO2.
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PO1 John Miller
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I ran into a couple of "show girls" I think I knew from high school myself. One was a waitress (not a dancer) at Deja Vu in San Diego and the other was a dancer at Fantasy World in Guam. I say "think I knew" because I didn't have the courage to ask them.
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My parents' second duty station (the first that I remember, as I was 3 years old at the time of PCS) was my first duty station upon entering active duty, for myself 22 years later; and a good number of the people I remember in the church and community were still there when I returned. It was like a great, big family reunion.
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Awesome, Captain.
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