San Diego ’62 Platoon 158. At the rifle range one recruit (not me) thought he could sneak out after lights out and climb into the rafters in the head and smoke. Well he got caught, the next day, in front of the entire Platoon they put a bucket on his head and another bucket filled with water on the ground. They told him to smoke and drink the water with the bucket on his head. To this day I’ve never seen anyone puke so much, and the Platoon wasn’t punished!!!
Getting caught
James – Is that a picture of you at the rifle range in 1962? Man, your DIs must have been lax on uniform inspections. I guess we were all “bad-ass-salts” at one time or another. LMAO, Semper Fi!!! Top Pro
Hey, Top! No way was that MCRDSD! Look at the haircut!
That is an old pic. When was the M-1 Carbine last issued? ”Individual” has no starch, long hair, dog tags look weird. [Not VC ears, but don’t look metal]. Gomer Pyle utility blouse, w/o EGA, lighter color that utility trousers. MarCor issue belt and brass — looks a tad long. Salty look for the camera.
Doubt this was taken InCONUS.
Cpl McGuinn
VMA-513
We had a recruit who go caught smoking in the head ( Plt. 308, MCRDSD, 1958) and our DI put him in a wall locker with a carton of cigarette’s and a canteen of warm water and made him smoke the whole carton before he got out, a couple of days later he came down with pneumonia and was dropped from the Plt.