You dang right I skated!!! I made E5 in 21 months and never left the East Coast. I was a REMF to beat all REMFs! They knew a good man when they saw one! “;^)
1970 was the year. Well, I got drafted in ‘69 but didn’t go in until January of ‘70. Never actually worked in the PX. I was a bookkeeper/accountant @ Quantico. But not at the PX. I’ll explain it all to you some day.
Did spend about 13 years in the Field Artillery; first M114 and later M198. Battery B, 2/197th FA, NHARNG. Loved it. Especially the last couple years when I was an FO.