Replying to a message of TIM RICHARDSON to BOB ACKLEY:

 TR> On 01-09-09, BOB ACKLEY said to TIM RICHARDSON:

 TR>> You and I both know that cannot possibly be true. That is a baldfaced
 TR>> lie. No Marine ( or any other branch of military service) in a
 TR>> position to check records, recruiter or otherwise, would even
 TR>> discuss such a thing with some civilian who just walked in off the
 TR>> street and made such a request. (I know this of personal knowledge,
 TR>> as I have talked to Marine and Navy recruiters on that very subject
 TR>> since, and was told no such thing is possible!)

 BA>> Well, they *might* discuss it without naming names, among themselves
 BA>> and most likely not with outsiders.  But that presupposes access to
 BA>> the information, which the overwhelming majority of service
 BA>> personnel don't have.

 TR> Exctly. One of the Navy recruiters I talked to about this was a man
 TR> I've known for over twenty years. He's retired from the Navy as a
 TR> CPO, has been on several West Pac cruises, and his wife is in the Air
 TR> National Guard, and was recently in the war zone.

 TR> Back in the mid fifties, my older brother and two of his friends
 TR> enlisted in the Air Force and went to Lackland. About three weeks
 TR> later, one of the other guys was back home, out of the Air Force. His
 TR> story was that some NCO had taken to harrassing him a lot, had
 TR> finally offered to `go out behind the barracks' with him, and to the
 TR> NCO's surprise, this guy pounded the crap out of him!

Not a good move - for either of them.

 TR> Well........this guy was about 5'8" (I don't know how big the NCO
 TR> was), but he was a small version of Hulk Hogan! He'd been a varsity
 TR> wrestler, had been on an amateur boxing team and finished pretty
 TR> high-ranked in the state amateur boxing matches back then. Not the
 TR> sort of person you'd just casually offer to `go behind the barracks'
 TR> with. And he had a hair trigger temper to go with it!

After I finished basic training I had to hang around Lackland for about a
*month* waiting for my school to start.  One of the tasks I was assigned
was to escort a troop from the stockade to the AG's office and back.  Seems
on day-1 of basic training he decked the TI (who probably deserved it).  This
fellow and his twin brother had enlisted together and had taken bunks on opposite
sides of the bay's aisle; the TI (about 5'6", maybe 140 pounds, and
with a really
mean mouth and attitude) started giving his brother some sh*t.  Kid took one step
across the aisle, grabbed the TI by the shoulder and spun him around, and one good
punch to the jaw, TI backpedalled the length of the bunk plus about 3 feet and put
a dent in the sheetrock wall before he hit the floor.  Kid was court-martialled, got
30 days in the stockade and a DD.

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