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Best Friends Chief Curt Suter, Navy Recruiter for Ponca City.
Best Moment Getting off Recruiting Duty followed closely by making Gunny!
Worst Moment Being extended from 36 to 46 months after MGen. Ken Houghten sent out his "hatchet man" who fired many recruiters of 8th MCD on the spot! After 46 months of Recruiting Duty - being sent to an overseas unaccompanied tour to Okinawa! Nobody cared or offered to help.
Chain of Command Still A.K."King" Dixon, although he was taking some "heavy rolls" from the Armed Services Subcommittee in regards to recruiting across the borders, etc. - thanks to an EAD Recruiter in Tulsa who was unhappy with the "King's" comments on his FitRep!
Other Memories We were doing so poorly on the enlisted side that after we shipped our Officer Canidates and PLCs off in 1976 they put Mike Geers and I back on the street to assist in making mission. Back to the same "one man fighting hole" in Ponca City that had been vacant for at least a year.
