Another Marine wake-boarding along a retention pond while being towed by a truck driving along the edge.One Marine retrieving a “bottom sample” from the inside of a Buffalo water tank.Several Marines getting their “jump wings” by parachuting from the 3rd floor with panchos.No one was allowed on or off base, and Marines were told to stay indoors. That weekend a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina, and as a result Camp Lejeune was shut down. I had just finished going through the training process for my MOS, and had returned to my battalion’s barracks before going to another school. I have several, but I’ll go with a story from the barracks since that seems to be a common theme. That mission his vehicle wad hit by an IED and the blast killed the gunner, a SPC from HQC who volunteered for the mission. I have a bad habit of running my mouth and I didn’t think spending alot of time with the Lt was a good idea so I declined saying, “I would sir, but I hear your driver is so bad that he voids my life insurance policy and my folks would really need the money.” He laughed and walked away. A couple of hours before we go on mission the Lt asks me if I’d like to fill in for my friend and be his gunner. A few months into our tour my friend gets two weeks leave, he was assigned as the gunner on my Lt’s Humvee.
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