uniforms
Joe Allonby
joeallonby at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 07:04:08 CDT 2009
Hate to say it Doug, but the Marines always have better uniforms. It's
oneof their best recruiting tools.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> The thing I did like about wearing a US Army uniform for 2 years and 2 days
> is that I never had to wonder what I was going to wear on a work day. And a
> big reason why all the GIs stationed in Korea liked being there is because
> you could hire a "houseboy" for $35/month to do the laundry including press,
> so we wore _starched_ fatigues to work, up there on the Frontier of Freedom,
> along the DMZ. The houseboys would loan you money until payday, too.
>
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