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Old 04-14-2007, 09:00 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Phobia
I joined the USMC on the buddy system with my best friend from high school. We were in the same platoon in bootcamp. He was actually a reservist while I was active duty.

During my 5 years in the Corps, I never ran into anybody who was in my platoon in boot camp - except for him. He had gotten called up for Desert Storm and I bumped into him in chow line in the middle of the desert in Kuwait.

For the math geeks, there were roughly 200k active duty Marines at the time with another 200k reservists and roughly 70 in my bootcamp platoon.
This just proves you spent a lot of time in the chow line. I already suspected that.
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