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Originally Posted by synapse
he'd be a fascinating guy to sit 'n enjoy a beer with  |
Actually just did that tonight. Today was the 20th anniversary of the day he and another friend of mine went into the marines. We ate dinner and talked about a lot of stuff.
In his 4.5 years the marines sent him to:
Honduras
The Philippines
Guatemala
Somalia
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait (he fought in the first gulf war)
South Korea
Japan (Okinawa)
There might be others but I can't remember off the top of my head. He always say, "If it was hot and shitty and people were shooting at each other I seemed to end up there."
the funniest story he has is when he was in Honduras and he and another guy are stationed to stand watch and protect a couple of large pallets of cargo. After a few hours they got curious and lifted up the tarps on the pallets to discover that they were guarding two huge pallet loads of tampons. He said they both agreed that if the shit hit the fan they were falling back. They weren't about to die protecting tampons.
He was in Somalia about 6 months. I have seen a lot of the pictures he took over there and heard a lot of the stories. It is a fucked up part of the world. He said seeing all the starving people disturbed him so much he lost about 40 pounds because he couldn't eat. At that time in his life he was 20 years old, ripped and in top shape so that 40 pounds was mostly muscle. I have seen pictures of what he looked like when he got home and he looked like the walked dead. His girlfriend almost didn't recognize him when she went to pick him up from the bus station when he got back.