[SolitaryMan]

If the kid needed a "mum" then the Marines would have issued him one. Anyways, a "GOOD" NCO would have made sure the kid wrote his parents.

[ken5050]

Right you are.....in the Corps, it starts with reception at Parris Island or SD, where each new recruit calls home to report his safe arrival. Of course, since you arrive there at like 2-3am, you usually wake up the whole house back home....and woe betide the recruit who doesn't write several letters or postcards each week back home.....

[tonycavanagh]

re : Anyways, a "GOOD" NCO would have made sure the kid wrote his parents.

I agree as a recruit in the second week of training we were all told to write home to are parents.

Cheers Tony

[HapHaszard]

When you are in the field in a foxhole, letters home is not your first priority.