I walked into the recruiting station on Hollywood Blvd. in 1956, during lunch time.
The only recruiter was a MSGT of the US Air Force so I signed up for 4 years in the USAF. All the other recruiters had gone to lunch.
Had the US Marines recruiter been the only one in the office I would have become a leatherneck.
I was just a dumb kid who wanted to serve his country.
Thank you for serving.
When my unit made its way further north into Kuwait during Gulf War I and I saw what the Air Force had done to Saddam’s army in that AO, I immediately stopped calling you guys names (and it took me a few to pick my jaw up off the deck). It aint just the pilots that made those birds HIGHLY effective.
Semper Fi
Ha ha. Same for me. I wanted to join the Navy but he was out and I had to get to my after school job. AF guy was there and the rest is history.