"Retired" due to medical conditions. -Heart Bypass (Quintuple) -Hepatitis C (from blood transfusions in the 1970s) -Diabetes (Type II). -Kidney failure w/ MRSA complications. -Operation to remove infection at sternum above old Heart Bypass site (still in recuperation early 2014).
Other Comments:
Self taught artist (multiple media); Self taught computer skills (I liked old "Windows 3.x" and DOS); Multi-lingual (a little of this and that); Life Member of the National Rifle Association. Still like to punch paper when I can afford the Range costs. (The proud owner of a Match Grade M1A, with glass bedded stock and also an M1 Garand.)
Best Moment Hearing about the arrest of our company mailclerk (who was really a quiet, likable okay guy) out 'in town'. Oceanside P.D. found him drunk on his keister, physically copulating with the bole of a tree in public. Poor guy had to live with a rep after that. Man, he had it rough for awhile. [Name withheld for 'mercy's' sake ;)] Don't know if he got his nut or not. He wouldn't talk about it. Never heard if he and that tree got married or not later. What a horndog! LOL
Worst Moment Got busted in rank, from Cpl back to LCpl for being late to a guard mount formation.
Other Memories Never received notification of any MOS change from Infantry status (0311). FOIA released records show no MOS change either. No specialized training (MP school?) was received to fullfill the billet.
=================================== Was refused emergency leave when Detroit riots broke out in 1967. the Marine Corps didn't want a Marine with combat experience, interfering in the middle of that event, even if it was to safeguard his family. Calls home were not good. My folks could hear full automatic fire going on a couple of blocks away. The one and only time I ever considered going AWOL. Good thing I didn't go, I would have been a hinderance, not a help.
