The Effects of the Years
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Bumby — 7 years ago(December 13, 2018 08:46 PM)
Where in Okinawa were you stationed? I lived on Camp Lester for three years, nearest to Foster and about a half hour from Kadena and Futenma.
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer. -
Bumby — 7 years ago(December 13, 2018 08:59 PM)
I remember Kinser. It was barracks housing chiefly, right? I thought it was the base that housed that awful "The Spot" food court, but that was Foster.
What did you think of it, despite spending nearly half your time elsewhere?
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer. -
Syxx — 7 years ago(December 13, 2018 09:09 PM)
I preferred Korea. I was with CSSD-31 in Korea first which was out in the dirt, where I like to be. Kinser had me put into H&S Battalion which was ultimate REMF work, although I worked up in the G-3 which gave me a lot of insight into the way high ranking officers work. I was single so I only did a year there. I had a better time afterward because even though I didn't like California, on Pendleton they put me in 11th Marines and I much preferred being in Division to FSSG. But that's all another story. Overall Kinser is a nice base, but it wasn't where my happiest memories of the Corps were formed.
As for Okinawa itself, I didn't really start having fun until we got into going to the Habu/Mongoose fights. There was this little village right out of Karate Kid 2 where they held 5 fights every Saturday night. Everyone always bets on the snake because it isn't really about winning the bet, and the Mongoose pays out practically nothing anyway. It's about always betting on the underdog and the fun of cheering for the "local" fighter. Maybe I'm telling you something you already know since for all I know you might have gone to the fights yourself. -
Bumby — 7 years ago(December 13, 2018 09:19 PM)
That's awesome. My father is a Marine too, and spent most of his time stationed in Okinawa in Iraq. The rest of us stayed on the island and did our own thing during the year-and-a-half he was gone. We moved to Pendleton immediately after that. It seems a lot of people follow that route. I'm glad you ended up liking being in the military a little bit more. I know it doesn't mean much coming from someone on the internet, but Marines deserve the utmost respect, and you have mine.
The train is coming with shiny cars, comfy seats, and wheels of stars. Hush, little ones, have no fear; the man in the moon is the engineer. -
Chris T — 7 years ago(December 14, 2018 08:45 AM)
Did you post on the GOT section of IMDB and then follow onto various IMDB related Facebook groups after it closed? Your posts remind me of a guy who got a little too involved in Apolodine's IRL problems with a controlling and semi-abusive husband.
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Syxx — 7 years ago(December 14, 2018 04:53 PM)
The way I saw it he was threatening to get a little close to my IRL problems but yea you have the basic story right. If you want to know more you can pm but the whole debacle did enough damage at the time and I don’t want to drag anybody from the past back up in public chat.
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Chris T — 7 years ago(December 14, 2018 08:21 PM)
What were your IRL problems that Apolodine's husband was threatening to get a little close to? Are you sure you don't have it backwards? Supposedly you were considering roughing him up a bit. Or worse. In hopes that she would respond favorably and be your woman or something.
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Sociopath — 7 years ago(December 14, 2018 08:31 PM)
I vaguely remember bits and pieces of this.
Interesting. Very interesting. Your version lines up better with what I recall, but I was only privy to the tail end of what overflowed onto the board and had no idea who the individual players were, Apolodine included. -
Syxx — 7 years ago(December 14, 2018 09:15 PM)
Yea I considered roughing him up but not for the reasons you say. He was contacting and harassing people from the FB group and I didn’t want him going to my old house and drawing attention to it. That house was in short driving distance from hers. I wasn’t going to tell that fact to anybody I asked for help though.
I wasn’t lying when I said I was worried about her but my main reason was some loud idiot not coming to a house where family lived and major drug trafficking was occurring. The only reason I’m talking about it now is because they are out of there and the players involved in the whole operation are dead or in prison. At any rate, the only contact I had planned was if he started sniffing around where he seemed to be threatening to do so. Or if I needed to help a friend. Not proud of it but it is the truth. In any case, the idea that she and I had some kind of thing is pure telephone game talk by idiots. There wasn’t even one flirtation in the entirety of our friendship.