Semper Fidelity going 48

Bulldozer? What's a bulldozer? Amphib SeaBees work over the water. 'Dozers don't do us a whole lot of good out there. LOL

 

When I was in, we were wearing BDUs.

 

It's all changed now. The Bee's wear the same as anyone else. I do agree thou, I liked the green because you could make them look sharp.

Injun, I hate to tell you this but both ACB's have plenty of bulldozers. They need them to pull the cosways up and to do other beach work. I wish I still had the picture when ACB1 stuck 2 D7's in the ocean. One you could see about 6 inches of the stack and the other was completely under water. They did get them out and repaired them, however, it took their 250T floating crane to get them unstuck.

 

Just yankin' a chain or two. Yes, we did have to haul that ell-caz up onshore with something. When I wasn't watching the end of it, I was out over the water answering to "Hey, Boats!" like everyone else. It didn't matter what your rating was. If you were out there building it, tearing it down and stowing in on the merchant ship, you were "Boats." And it was an honor to be called that by the BMs especially when it wasn't your rating and it came from the BMC. But never mistake an ACB for a NMCB. Kinda like calling a Marine, "Hey, Squid!"

(Now that this thread has been toroughly hijacked....by the O/P) I remember the grenade launcher range...and the firing range....and the barbeque afterward.....man, those Marines could put the brewskis away!

 

Or worse yet, referring to a Marine as "Sarge".



First time a civvie-type called me a "Sarge", I almost passed out and had to change my shorts. Course.... I couldn't control the long stream of profanity that escaped from my beer-sucker.

 

OOOOHHHHHRRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!!! I didn't read all the posts but where all were you stationed when you were in (just 3/9)? I am past your time in (99-06 for me) but it's nice to talk. I was with 3/8 Kilo 2/6 Wpns, 6th Reg, 3/6 Wpns, and 4th MEB (AT) in Afghanistan.

Ok, lets hear about how much harder it was back in your day than it was in mine (my whole family gives me that talk whenever we get together). It reminds me of a comic strip that was in the "Marine Times" that had men sitting at a bar and each one talked about how far they marched and how bad the boots were back then. Finally the next to last guys says "all we had were our bare feet to march 100 miles a day" and the REALLY old timer next to him yealls out "YOU HAD FEET?!"

Seeing the yellow footprint comment gave me a flashback...wow.