uniforms

[Joe Allonby]

A friend of mine is a USMC recruiter. He claims that uniform is one of
his strongest tools.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
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