Boot Camp memories.

My husband got drafted a few months before we got married. It was during the Viet Nam war. He went into the Navy instead of the Army. He did his basic training about an hour and a half away from where we lived at the time. He never wanted me to go to the base and the few times I did I thought it was nice. I have more memories of the base my older brother was at during the Korean war.I was only 4yrs old at the time and my sister was 6yrs old. He got drafted right after he got marrried.He as stationed in Maryland and we would go visit him every weekend and take his wife to see him. After a few months the base turned the Horse stables into small apartments and my brother got one so his wife could live on the base too. I remember sleeping on a sleeping bag on the floor and my parents sleeping on cots. There was only one bedroom and my brother and his wife slept in the bedroom.Thinking about it now that was a long long time ago.
 

Ha yes Basic Training. Only two things I remember. Our training NCO was a SFC from the Philippines. He couldn't pronounce the word BOOTS. I remember him to this day "YOU GOT TO SHINE YOUR BUTTS EVERY DAY" Of course we knew he meant boots, but being the army it could just as well have been you ass end. The other memory was of a kid named Korvorkian (Armenian I think) One day were were doing a field problem and some how he got shot in the leg by the wad of a blank. He started swearing but no body could understand a word he said. It was funny as hell.
 

This is kind of a strange thing. I joined the US Navy, but as a Corpsman. I was in the Hospital Corps, it's much the same as the Marine Corps- it is separate division of the Navy. But we have our basic training with the Navy at Great Lakes. The problem for me was that I was a "HN"- Hospitalman. All the other guys were "SR"- Seaman Recruit. When we lined up to do our paper work or most anything, we had to give our name, and RANK. So I was "Fuzzybuddy, HN". Invariably, the guy at the desk would start yelling that I was a "SR", and didn't I know that, etc,. etc. So, I go in the next line and, yup, I'd say "Fuzzybuddy, SR". The guy would start to yell at me that I was an "HN". I can remember being at the end of a line in front of a desk, and trying to figure out if the guy was a "SR" guy, or a "HN" guy. This dogged on me all through boot camp, because I had the caduses (the snake T medical sign) sewn on my left arm patch.
 
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