Tom,
The Marines did (don't know about now) have a three year enlistment in '65. About a half dozen in my platoon were in on that and maybe ten in on the four year - the rest were 6 mo. reservist. The D.I.'s were not overly thrilled with the make-up and since we're a team, we all got continually reminded of it.
Sometime in Nov., our fearless leaders informed us that there was a platoon of much censored draftees a couple rows over from us. This was a development obviously designed to mess up "their Marine Corps", they were beaucoup ticked off, wanted to take it out on somebody, and here we were.... Use your imagination.
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