Hey Sgt. Grit, I sure enjoy your newsletter and all the stories and pictures. Here’s our boot camp platoon picture. Platoon 346. On the way to get our picture taken the platoon screwed something up and we were ordered to button our top buttons as punishment. Actually now years later I think we look better with all our buttons buttoned. Our Platoon Commander was S/Sgt Irwin D Morrison who went on to become an officer and the Drill Instructors were Sgt Bolton and Sgt Curtis. We began as a platoon 14 February 66 and graduated middle of April. The platoon guide was Pvt Bohannan and high shooter was Pvt Wolfe who got his nose bruised by Sgt Sausau our Samoan PMI. We lived in Quonset huts and locked our M 14s to the racks with a combination bicycle lock and I don’t know where my went but I still have my laundry scrub brush which I keep in a safe with my platoon picture book and my USMC Guidebook. After chow we would assemble in formation outside the messhall and we would read our little red book and keep an eye open for dummies who tried to cut through our platoon or by mistake get in the wrong platoon and we had some fun throwing them back out. Once when the platoon was working on our uniforms someone asked our drill instructors how the laces should go and the answer was boot laces and shoe laces go left over right; and I have been doing it that way every since. God Bless our Corps. Ted Picado
Platoon 346 1966 MCRD San Diego
