While in BOOT CAMP In about Feb-March of 1966, we had a young boot from Chicago join us from the brig. He had been in boot camp for over one year, kept going over the hill and going back to Chicago where the MP's would just pick him up and ship him back cross country by chaser to San Diego where he would do a couple months in the stockcade and recycle him in with a new boot platoon. The day he joind ours, D.I. SSgt Richard Jones yelled at him, "Pvt Schultz are you going to give me any trouble ?" Schultz said loudly, "NO SIR, I'LL BE GONE BY MORNING!"
They assigned him to my upper bunk and I was to watch him all night long. He did his best trying to talk me into going with him but come morning he was still there. He did finish boot camp with our platoon, 0311 to Viet Nam and honorable discharge and back to Chicago.
Funny how I still recall that story after over 45 years and that you might forget your wifes birthday… but you never forget the names of your D.I.'s. One of my fellow boots turned out to be the D.I. for my brother 8 years later SSgt Porffet. I took the other less traveled trail… I WAS A RECRUITER. Served in the same unit as several men I recruited on my second tour… when my friends found that out, they stayed away from me…"frags" were common back in those days. (LOL)