From: (BUFDRVR)
Date: 5/12/2004 3:43 PM Central Daylight Time
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George Z. Bush wrote:


Hey, you don't need to post your bona fides.

His posted it George because its bogus. I know there have been some 20 year
O-3s, but are you trying to tell me we've actually met one here and he was a
Marine?

The C.O. of the Marine Detachment on the U.S.S. Simon Lake when I was there was
a 20 year captain - Captain Howard Lovingood, and so was his relief, Captain
Walter Peoples. They both retired as Majors.



Doubtful.


Never heard of prior enlisted?


I enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1973. That's how I got be a Viet Nam Era
veteran. Anyone who served more than 180 days prior to sometime in 1975 makes
the cut. I actually narrowly missed going to Viet Nam anyway. Most of the
Marines in my class at Infantry Training School were in the MAU (now called
MEU's) that evacuated Saigon in the spring of 1975. I got orders to Sea School
Atlantic and then to the Marine Detachment on the U.S.S. Simon Lake, so I
missed that show.

I was a rifle company commander in the 24th Marine Regiment on Desert Storm, as
I said. That's the reserve unit in Nashville.

Walt