Sgt Grit,
I recently acquired my uncle's boot camp book (Platoon 171, graduation Dec 1959) and was browsing it to see how different MCRD SD looked back then from when I was there (1983). I noticed a picture titled "Bucket Issue" and recall him talking about buckets and sand to me when I came home from boot camp. We never had buckets, so I wonder if any old salts out there could elaborate on uses for your bucket. I'd ask my uncle but he's gone to that final duty station. Attached are a couple of the pictures from his graduation book that show the buckets.
Another book he had was from his time with 2/9 during something called the transplacement program. I'm not sure but it looks like sometime in 1961 the 2/5 left Camp Pendleton and arrived in Okinawa then assumed the role of the 2/9. I would assume the 2/9 left Okinawa and became the 2/5 in Pendleton. Can anyone out there shed more details on this? Attached are a couple of pictures from that book.
Semper Fi (and it was Oorah in 1983),
Mike Winnie
Cpl USMCR 1983-88