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     Cp wrote --   
      
   > > Mine was a flagship with an admiral onboard and the Marine detachment   
   > > were his body guards.   
   >    
   > Honor guard, mostly, or did they really expect someone to disturb his    
   > admiralship in an antisocial manner?   
      
     I never remember seeing them actually doing anything.   
     They would wander around, sometimes hounour guards when big shots came   
   aboard.     
     We only had about 15 of them on a 1000 man ship.   
     I remember one time watching them jog around the deck and we all agreed   
   that something stupid to do.  Then a few years later it seemed everyone was   
   out jogging.   
      
   > >> How come there's no annual Navy-Marines football game?   
   > > Because we would wallop them.  :)   
   >    
   > & you can't be busting their morale so badly   
      
     And we would hurt their feelings, and we know how sensitive they are.  :)   
      
   > Was your training pretty prosaic, like not too dissimilar to what army boys   
   go through in boot, or do you share boot camp for training?   
      
     No, they had their own boot camp.   
     Navy boot camp was rather easy.  We only marched to and from class,   
   carrying wooden rifles.   
     About once a week we hit the obstruction field which was just climbing   
   over walls, going up and down lines as if boarding or leaving a ship (hand   
   over hand), etc.   
     There were no long hikes, marching (other than to class), etc.   
     The only time I marched after that was in a Memorial Day parade and got   
   an extra day off for that.  :)   
         
   > I thank you for your service   
      
     Thank you but I didn't do that much and was just serving my country and   
   doing what a good male citizen should do.   
      
   > >> Navy plays Army every year, no?   
   > > Oh yeah, the biggest game of the year.   
   >    
   > Do you play? Or did you?   
      
     Neither.  :)   
     Joe   
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