TIME REALLY FLIES!!!!!!

big tee · Feb 28, 2018

It sure does--Fifty years ago today I boarded a jet airplane and headed to boot camp in San Diego Cal. I remember it like it was yesterday. 19 year old farm boy hardly been out of Iowa and facing the draft so I enlisted in the US Navy for 4 years. Had good and bad times--glad I did it though....ANCHORS AWEIGH--GO NAVY---TEE

roy prins · Feb 28, 2018

Who is that skinny dude in the white? tee hee

big tee · Feb 28, 2018

I am like a crib of ear corn--in the Fall you fill it to the top and by Summer it has settled by 1/4th. Roy-that is one of my favorite pictures--Dad and Mom seeing me off at the Waterloo airport.---Tee

larry@stinescorner · Feb 28, 2018

Great picture!!!

Billy Shafer · Feb 28, 2018

Brings back memories. I joined in Sept 1968 went to Great Lakes. Got my draft notice two weeks after I joined.First time this farm boy had ever been to the big city.

casecollectorsc · Feb 28, 2018

I left for Army boot camp Mar 08 67 headed to Ft. Benning, Ga....didn't need my heavy coat I wore from E SD.

Goose · Feb 28, 2018

Yep. This was on a Nationalist Chinese Air Force Base on Taiwan in 1958.

Things have "expanded" a bit since a WAC Sgt. 1st Class asked a buddy of mine about that "skinny Marine Staff Sergeant.

oldproudvet · Feb 28, 2018

You talk about time flying- 1st pic my Dad and I, 1944, 2nd pic after being drafted in 1965 in Dak To South Viet Nam, now back on the farm.... Seems like life was a "flash"

kcm.MN · Feb 28, 2018

(quoted from post at 06:20:29 02/28/18) I enlisted in the US Navy for 4 years. Had good and bad times--glad I did it though....ANCHORS AWEIGH--GO NAVY---TEE

[b:483e6b9b0f]Squid![/b:483e6b9b0f] *lol*

At least you were in the "real" military -- like most folks. I got stationed at Headquarters Air Training Command, otherwise known as Headquarters American Toy Company. More brass than you can shake a stick at! ...And too many dang Civil Service who knew how to do things "their" way!

Texasmark1 · Feb 28, 2018

On my 18th birthday I went to Houston and signed up for the draft as ordered. Headed on over to the USAF recruiter and joined the AF a couple of hours later. Gave them 9 years.

Got sworn in and a "panty" wagon took me and 2 draftees over too a medical facility to get a physical, I think that's when I was in the wagon with them......sad looking guys they were. Don't remember what branch drafted them; thinking it was Army. I felt for them. I signed up so that I could choose what I was going to do and for whom.

Anyway, we get there get briefed and were handed a purple bag with draw strings. We were to put our valuables in it and come out and line up around the side of this big room whereby the doc. would come by and have a look. Always a jokester but this wasn't a time for one: So as you looked around the room, everybody had their valuables (from their pockets) in their bag holding it in one hand except for one:

He had his tied "guess where".........his reply to the doc. was that they said "all your valuables"..........doc. didn't think it was funny nor did the corps man.......but the rest of the room roared.

On time flying, thinking back to parochial school when the days of the week dragged by and how fast they go by today, I was just getting into double digits of age then so 5 school days was a pretty good part of the size of my life. Today at 76 it's nothing, so yes, time flies.

greenmech · Feb 28, 2018

24th of Feb 1966 went to San Diego boot camp to start my 4 years in the Navy. BT2 at discharge. Ron MN

Deere Mark · Feb 28, 2018

First week of March 1968, started US Army at Fort Jackson. "Commenced training 18 March 1968" "Completed training 10 May 1968" Graduated from college in December 1967, facing draft, made no plans, got drafted. Go figure! Can it be 50 years? We are not old pharts, are we?

PaGlenn · Feb 28, 2018

Worked on Jets before working on tractors. Tractor was easier. Jets were cleaner.

Mike M · Feb 28, 2018

First thing that came to mind was a new meaning for the "cat in the hat" lol.

1970-1655 · Feb 28, 2018

27 Apr. 1969 USAF. First 6 months we get a re-up briefing. I told the Major what he could do with his Air Farce, I was going back to the farm as soon as they would let me out. I didn't start that war and I didn't want any part of it.

LA in WI · Feb 28, 2018

[Big teed,
I also flew out of Waterloo, but in 1960-61, in propeller planes.
Did you live near Waterloo? I lived near Parkersburg.

Army gave me a ride on the California Zepher, took 2 days before the hollering and shouting began at Ft. Ord, CA.

First night there the DI said to about 300 of us "You boys can write home to momma and tell her to sell the outhouse, because your a** belongs to me!".
LA in WI

2 colorgreen · Feb 28, 2018

How did you guys get to fly? Reported in at Ft. Wayne, Detroit Dec. 6, 1966 and
rode the train to Ft Knox for basic.

oldproudvet · Feb 28, 2018

Drafted June of 65 and also went to Ft Knox. Most Mn drafted guys went to Ft Leonard Wood MO or Ft Polk LA. Felt, very very fortunate......... Although basic was basic. The south (from a central MN farm kid) was full of snakes, weird animals, and all kinds of flying critters that'd haul ya away. No biting things here, well, maybe a stray mosquito

55 50 Ron · Feb 28, 2018

Nice picture. I bet that is a North Central Airline? They were called "The Hurry Bird". I rode North Central a lot on business trips.

Enlisted and served in Navy 1957 to 1962. Finished as E6 (ET1). Did bootcamp at San Diego also and ET school at Treasure Island.

Thanks for the memories.

Fawteen · Feb 28, 2018

2/27/69 for me. Great Lakes in February...Fun!

Fawteen · Feb 28, 2018

Boot Camp Graduation pic, 1969

Retirement pic, 1990

REALLY retired, 2017

Fawteen · Feb 28, 2018

Sorry about the giant picture, not sure what happened there.

big tee · Feb 28, 2018

Just got home--It was Ozark airlines-sold out or went broke-Thanks---Tee

oldtanker · Feb 28, 2018

Wasn't 50 years ago but close, 44 years ago is when I joined, summer of 74, US Army. Retired in 96.

Rick

JMS/.MN · Feb 28, 2018

Enlisted Aug 27, 1964, bussed down to fort lost in the woods. Twenty months of training later, on the SF A-Team.

big tee · Feb 28, 2018

Maynard--Thanks---Tee

big tee · Feb 28, 2018

Yea the Marines called us Squids-creatures that eat marine waste. We would say-better to have a sister thats a {sp} horror, than a brother in the core-ha ha---Tee-----JOKING

BarryfromIA · Feb 28, 2018

On the advice of an uncle who was a WW2 Army vet, I joined the US Navy in 1964. Always had a bed. Sometimes not in long but we had one.

K Effective · Feb 28, 2018

Gentlemen, I may not appreciate every thought each of you shares here on YT, but I appreciate every day each of you served those many years ago. Without you and a whole lot more like you this country would not exist for us to share our thoughts. Thank you.

kruser · Feb 28, 2018

Thanks for your service Tee !!! ASSUME that's where you got yer sense of humor.
I was just a HAIR too young for Vietnam but Dad served in WW-II and Korea.

Ande · Feb 28, 2018

And you end up not getting any respect! (Cat on head) Great pictures and history

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