What was your Rate or MOS in the military????

[Teufelhund]

Im leaving for boot camp on Monday, and my mos as of right now is communications.

Semper Fi, recruit! Are you 2800 or 2500? The former is techs, the latter is operators (battery-powered grunts).

[Teufelhund]

where was 3/1? Camp Horno?

Yes, that's right. All of 1st Marines, 1 MARDIV is/was at Horno. Just down Basilone Rd, in from the back gate and past SOI. I lived in that base housing just inside the back gate at San Onofre.

[HBARleatherneck]

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[Teufelhund]

The Mobile Home park?

it was duplexes when I lived there.

[tmleadr03]

Yessir, I was with a victor unit 3/1, attached to the 15th MEU.

I was with 1st LAR C Co 1st Plt. USS Tarawa. Same trip as you.

[tmleadr03]

Semper Fi, recruit! Are you 2800 or 2500? The former is techs, the latter is operators (battery-powered grunts).

First target, second one is the SAW Gunner.

I was a SAW Gunner.

[tmleadr03]

The Mobile Home park?

I was at Flores for 4 years.

Then 22 area. for 4 more.

minus deployments, Okinawa, Desert Storm, Stumps, etc.

What years at Flores? I spent a few there myself.

[MCarp71]

US Army. 19Kilo. M1A1 Abrams.
91-95
Asschaufenburg, Germany, Ft Irwin, CA.

4-66 Armor, 3rd. ID
1-11 ACR
"Iron Knights"

Met the wife at Ft. Irwin, she was am MP US Army.

[Teufelhund]

I was with 1st LAR C Co 1st Plt. USS Tarawa. Same trip as you.

Wow that is pretty freaking cool! I was on the USS Essex so I didn't see the LAR guys much. I think I had to cross-deck to both of the support ships at some point to fix radios. I think you had your own comm guys though so I didn't work on your vehicles, but I did get to drive one while we were doing work up during CAX.

Was the Tarawa the boat with busted boilers, or was that the Duluth? I still have the "yearbook" they gave us with all the photos from the deployment, so there's probably a picture or two of you in there somewhere.

[tmleadr03]

Wow that is pretty freaking cool! I was on the USS Essex so I didn't see the LAR guys much. I think I had to cross-deck to both of the support ships at some point to fix radios. I think you had your own comm guys though so I didn't work on your vehicles, but I did get to drive one while we were doing work up during CAX.

Was the Tarawa the boat with busted boilers, or was that the Duluth? I still have the "yearbook" they gave us with all the photos from the deployment, so there's probably a picture or two of you in there somewhere.

There is at least one. I was the platoon with the Minotaur pic. The one with the big balls.

Big.

Balls.