What is your 'favorite' memory from MEPS?

I recall on 3 Feb 66 standing in. A cold hallway in Whitehall Street induction station in socks shorts and t-shirt with a small cloth bag contains my valuables hung around my neck when two Marine sergeants counted off the twelve guys ahead of me and said take two steps forward. Congratulations you are now members of the Marine Corps.
13 has always been my lucky number.

1982... Having to get a waiver because my body fat was too low. Not weight, body fat %.

I got laid at MEPs. I had been talking to this cute little gal, she was going to the Airforce, on and off when we arrived the night before. We had been flirting with each other all through dinner and then we all got the "Boys and girls should stay out of each others motel rooms" speech.

I would say 45 minutes later she knocked on my door, we kicked my roommate out and she stayed the night. When they came for us in the morning, we got all kinds of nasty looks and got a talking to by some officer once we got to the MEPs facility there in Oakland. They gave me a ton of shit for not following directions, except the Marines. That gunny seemed fond of me...

About a year or so later I was on a 96, and I ran into her at Nellis Air force base and we spent that 96 bumping uglies at the Mandalay Bay. We hooked up again a few years later when we ran into each other in Hawaii.

We still chat from time to time she is married now and so am I but we still have a good friendship.

April 1969. Marine draft was in full effect. We'd all heard stories about how they worked it. First, we were all taken into a room where each one of us was asked, "Army or Marine Corps?" Some said Marines, most said Army. After that, we fell out into a corridor, Marines needed eleven more guys. Two Marine Gunnys told us to count off. Soon as it got to eleven, they stopped us. Those eleven guys were off to San Diego. The rest of us went to Fort Knox. By the way, I was number 13.

I do not know if it is my favorite,but i'm probably the only one who flunked their first physical because of zit.

Walking down a double column of medics with air guns, giving vaccinations.

Favorite memory, is telling testers and new recruits they needed get probed, so i wished them luck and hope they packed tons of lube.

I never thought much of MEPS? Do others have fond memories of this place?

In 1990 I was assigned to MEPS Jacksonville, FL as a PSSP. My job was to interview any applicant enlisting into an MOS that required Secret and above clearance. Some of the stories I could tell about applicants I disqualified were amazing!

Our in-processing was done at Medina AFB; the only thing I remember before that was testing done at the recruiting station (AFOQT). My clearest memory of the process was being assigned a service number and the clerk looking up and saying "Damn, that's a great number!"
And it was. 03 for the month of March; 223 for the caliber of the M-16; and 777 which I just had to memorize.