uniforms

[Doug Millison]

Can't argue with that except to say I remained immune to the allure.   
When I was in the little room, at Oakland Army Base that fateful day  
in June of 1972, getting ready to raise our hands and take the oath, a  
beautifully attired Marine sergeant came in and took every third one  
of us draftees and drafted them them into the Marines, said they were  
headed for Vietnam and there they went. I declined to volunteer for  
that privilege, and was mercifully passed over that morning.

I didn't enjoy wearing the dress or khaki uniforms, and I burned all  
of it, fatigues included, in a bonfire the day I after got out of the  
Army. 20 years before I bought a green shirt again.


On Sep 30, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:

> 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.
>>