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Thanks for reading this short excerpt from the paid post! Fancy buying it to read all of it?
Personally I would rather see it in one book.
Thanks for your input, Richard.
Glad you made it HOME ALIVE…so glad you are still with Mary. Tough Times make Tough People…So glad you both hung in there…Semper fi, ONWARD !!!
Thank you Kay. As always you are a most wonderful person and quite a judge of character and intellect…well, except
for that Donald thing….
Semper fi,
Jim
“Compartmentalize”. I hadn’t thought of that word for nearly 5 decades, but that was one of the real buzz words at TBS. Take one thing at a time. Deal with it. Go to the next thing. Deal with it. Don’t mix up the items in one compartment with another compartment or you lose focus and it’s all fucked up. In your situation on the Fifth Night, that advice/teaching would have been as useless as tits on a boar.
Thanks for your feedback on my comments. It means a lot.
SF,
Farmer John
John, do you remember the “what now lieutenant?” sessions? God, I thought later on the hospital about those and how funny it would have been
to present my company situation at one of those! I loved TBS training but found most of it almost useless in the Nam. Nothing with the Marines under my command worked the way they trained me for. I came to improvise and accommodate but in ways they would not let me go back and teach or talk about.
I got sent to a civil affairs group at Camp Pendleton to await medical discharge. I was given a private office out in the boonies
with no staff and no associates. Thanks for writing about how some of your experience dovetailed with my own. I so understand Marines coming home now.
I’d make a good counselor but would never be allowed to be that either!
Semper fi,
Jim