Reflecting on folks I've met along the way
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:44 am
I saw something today about a reunion for RTC Orlando (posted the link here Scuttlebutt) and it got me to reflecting a bit.
Of the 80 guys in my RTC company, I can probably name about 6. Four of us hung together at A school. Of those 4, one I never saw or heard from again. Another was the Quarterdeck watch when I visited a tender in Groton about a year later. The other one I saw as we waited to class up at NPS but he washed out before our class formed. He was a contestant on Jeopardy several years later. I think he was only on the one day. I did see him once in Newport News when he visited family there while we were in the Shipyard. Nothing more since then.
My dad was 20+ year Army and I know he and mom stayed in touch with some families they deployed with as well as a few from his hometown that had joined up about the same time he did during WWII.
Some of my Madison contemporaries definitely fall into the category of friends for life and others that I've met through this reunion group will always be near as well.
Are you still in contact with anyone from your boot camp days? Do you remember more than a couple of them?
Of the 80 guys in my RTC company, I can probably name about 6. Four of us hung together at A school. Of those 4, one I never saw or heard from again. Another was the Quarterdeck watch when I visited a tender in Groton about a year later. The other one I saw as we waited to class up at NPS but he washed out before our class formed. He was a contestant on Jeopardy several years later. I think he was only on the one day. I did see him once in Newport News when he visited family there while we were in the Shipyard. Nothing more since then.
My dad was 20+ year Army and I know he and mom stayed in touch with some families they deployed with as well as a few from his hometown that had joined up about the same time he did during WWII.
Some of my Madison contemporaries definitely fall into the category of friends for life and others that I've met through this reunion group will always be near as well.
Are you still in contact with anyone from your boot camp days? Do you remember more than a couple of them?