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marble falls

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6. We all have some regrets from boot camp. We had two total illiterates in my company ....
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 09:07 AM
Jan 2018

and the 'slow' guy who very well could have been blanket partied during an unauthorized 'unit cohesion exercise' went directly to fleet as an "Airdale" - an aviation boatswains mate striker on an aircraft carrier, the most dangerous job in the Navy in '72.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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