Hey now, didn't the Marines teach you never to make fun of the guys providing the boats that get your ass the hell out of dodge?
Mmm... leftovers.
No, mostly the Corps taught me how to kick ass and get drunk.
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To be entirely fair, mostly the latter.
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To be entirely fair, mostly the latter.
I love looking at old pictures like this. I have a journal one of my great-uncles kept when he was on a ship in the Pacific during WWII. A lot of it is boring because his entries are mostly about the weather or how rough/calm the sea was that day or a beer day with a movie that he watched. The entries that really caught my eye were about Japan - since his ship carried Marines to at least one key battle there. My great-aunt used to tell me when he would write to her, his letters were always censored, but he would write where he was underneath the stamp so she wouldn't worry too much about him.Speaking of which, found this picture of my grandpa from his old Navy days. He died when I was 12 but was an amazing guy.
My dad has letters my great-grandpa wrote home from WWI, where he was a driver, I think. I haven't read them in awhile but it's really amazing stuff.
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Air Force or Army Air Corps?
My grandparents were both in the Royal Canadian Air Force too. That's where they met.
Grandpa on my mom''s side was in the British Royal Navy
Grandpa on my mom''s side was in the British Royal Navy
My grandmother told me the story about how they met at the Royal Canadian Air Force.
He was a mechanic and she was an office worker. Him and his buddies were tramping through the office and he saw this cute new girl seated at a desk and he told his buddies "That's the girl I'm gonna marry." So, he works himself and he goes over to talk to her, asking her out on a date. And she says no.
A couple days later, he tries again to the same effect, "No way I'm dating a greasemonkey." is the general attitude he receives.
Finally, on the third try, she relents. They go out on a date and over the course of the night, he proposes to her. She bursts out laughing thinking that she's out with a mad man.
A couple years later they're married.
duh, I am getting forgetful in my old age.
That's pretty amazing.
Unfortunately I never heard the story of how my grandparents met. They were divorced for as long as I can remember, so I didn't get to hear stories like that. All I know is it happened in the RCAF.
Numenoreans.
I'm 34, she's 48. She joined the forces the day she turned 18.
My parents were trying for one more in their early 40ies.
At both the High School I went to and the one I taught for, there was an Art Teacher with a daughter and sister in the same senior class. Too many coincidences.
North_Ranger
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I'm ten and fourteen years younger than my siblings. So yeah, I was an oopsie too.
That's two sweaty, 3.6km runs in a row. That's me saying "two," not making a ducky face.
LOL wat?
Your timing is impeccable, though, as I'm trying to catch up on my Teaching Elementary Math course. 
I knew I could always count on you guys for the lulz.
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SeraRelm
Hey.. hey Nick...
Your duckface maked me think of this.
Your duckface maked me think of this.
It's not a duck-face!! 