Peacetime or better said Cold War Marine checking in...
1979 - 1983 (4 yrs 5 days) and 2 years inactive reserve
Hollywood Marine who laughs at the PI boys...
3 months MOJT for 3051 in 29 Stumps...graduated top in my class (total of 7
meritorious promo to PFC...and had my pick of the 7 duty orders; all of which were MSG duty...narrowed it down to 2 non US locations...Guam and Iceland...picked Iceland (why can be told later but should have went with Guam in hindsight)
Iceland was considered hardship duty so we were allowed to request the next duty station...but not before I was promo'd to L/Cpl (pin the stripe parties are so much fun when there's nothing but grunts in your platoon
and rec'd 2 NJP's (only 1 stripe lost) and then I was off swinging with the wing MATCS-38 style at Tustin LTA base...for my last 3 years
...received my 3rd NJP and lost a stripe while on temporary duty supporting the reserves in 29 Stumps..UA for 5 days...got back to my unit and they sent me off to pull guard duty...the SOG didn't want me because of the NJP's but the SgtMjr looked at my record and basically asked the SOG "WTF is your problem...this marine rec'd 1.9 2.9 pro and con marks when the book says he should have got 0's...he then asked me how I ended up with a MUC...need less to say the SgtMjr was knew his shit (when I have time I'll regale y'all with the story of how I saved the SOG's ass during Drill time during a CGI...the idiot had us doing about 7 drills while at trail arms...back on task...ended up getting back to L/Cpl and an honorable discharge....I'll drop back from time to time with and regale y'all with a Funny story or two