Marine Is Home Again

Surviving a year in Vietnam with nothing more to show for it than nightmares and a bad skin condition, I was able to quickly settle in to a two year stint at Camp Pendleton where the Marines threw me another curve and decided to make me an Admin Chief (civilian equilevent of office manager).

I ended up shuffling papers like a civilian pogue with a nine to five billet that was pretty much like a regular job. I lived off -base with my new wife in a fine apartment and played ball on the 7th Engineer Battalion Softball team. My first sergeant was a heck of a ping-pong player and taught me all he knew until all of a sudden my four year enlistment was over. I enjoyed the Corps and was tempted to re-up but my wife had this crazy idea that she wanted to raise our kids in one place!

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