Record of 03 Failure in WWI

[Jim Tarleton]

Oops! Too much bore cleaner again. It was Cpl. York! The P and O keys are side by side, and it was a typo!

Jim

[slamfire1]

I purchased a WWI uniform at a Flea Market. Inside one of the pockets was a receipt. Dated 1919 and in France. The military receipt was for a watch.

My guess they guy lost it, and was forced to pay for it.

[John Peeff]

Jim, The marines were a lot tougher than the army if they made you pay for a rifle lost in combat! I got a jeep trailer load of M14's from a 1st Inf Div engineer bn (turned in for M16's) traded a VC flag and some Ho Chi Minh sandals for them. I had two unsigned for M16's, had the last one unassembled in my duffel bag when I was coming home, but that is another story. Weapons acountability was pretty slack from my perspective.

[Jim Tarleton]

No one checked my rifle until I left. The serial number on my rifle did not match the one I was issued when I turned it in at Danang. They just took it out of my pay stateside. Through a mixup while I was in the hospital in RVN, I wasn't paid (MPC); but I evidently signed some document saying I had been paid. The amount I was supposedly paid exceeded my normal pay, so I owed the government a lot of money when I left RVN (more than I had been actually earned in RVN). That came out of my check stateside also. I may be one of the few Marines who paid to go to RVN!

I had my Company Commander and the Camp Pendleton Adjutant try to rectify the matter, but their efforts failed. I lived off base with three other Marines right behind the Oceanside Police Station, and I ate tacos and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine for a year. I developed quite a taste for the tacos. The wine sucked, but it was cheap.

I still have my separations check. I never cashed it. It is less than $2 with travel pay (California to Mississippi). I hitchhiked home. The check is framed with my HD. I think it is $1.43, but to be honest, there is more to that story than I am telling.

Jim

[TDH]

No one checked my rifle until I left. The serial number on my rifle did not match the one I was issued when I turned it in at Danang. They just took it out of my pay stateside. Through a mixup while I was in the hospital in RVN, I wasn't paid (MPC); but I evidently signed some document saying I had been paid. The amount I was supposedly paid exceeded my normal pay, so I owed the government a lot of money when I left RVN (more than I had been actually earned in RVN). That came out of my check stateside also. I may be one of the few Marines who paid to go to RVN!

I had my Company Commander and the Camp Pendleton Adjutant try to rectify the matter, but their efforts failed. I lived off base with three other Marines right behind the Oceanside Police Station, and I ate tacos and Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill wine for a year. I developed quite a taste for the tacos. The wine sucked, but it was cheap.

I still have my separations check. I never cashed it. It is less than $2 with travel pay (California to Mississippi). I hitchhiked home. The check is framed with my HD. I think it is $1.43, but to be honest, there is more to that story than I am telling.

Jim

Jim I have to sympathize with you on the pay. I was AirForce and got an extremely early out and hadn't built back enough leave time to make up for what I had used and most of my uniforms had been sent home. So when I processed out most of my last months pay was gone. I left Mcquire AFB on the evening of Nov 28 1971 with less than $10 in my pocket. It was a colfd hitch home.

As far as lost weapons goes my cousin was a door gunner on a Huey in RVN and they were going into a hot LZ. It was raining and his mini jammed, instead of taking the time to clear it he said he grabbed his 16 and emptied the mag. When he tried to change the mag the wind ripped it out of his hand. When they returned to base he reported it as a combat loss and his 1st shirt said that since he wasn't technically in combat it couldn't be a combat loss and he would have to pay for it. He said that he wondered what his congressman would say about that. It was marked as a combat loss.

[Dan Shapiro]

When checking out at Phu Bai in 1970, I turned in my 16 and other field gear. Couple of minutes later some supply sergeant was screaming and yelling that my records indicated that I'd never signed FOR the 16. So I simply asked "Does that mean I get to keep it?". He wasn't amused.

[Bill Hollinger]

I was over at Camp SLO some years back and at the MOUT site I found an M16A2 with a 30 round magazine in it. It was leaning up against the live fire shooting house. The base commander was notified and he didn't want to believe that one of his boys could have left an M16A2 out in the field. I never found out what happened to the poor soul that left it out there.

[Jim Tarleton]

Ouch! bet that never happened again!

Jim

[Loy Hamilton]

Ouch! bet that never happened again!

Jim

Jim

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[Jim Tarleton]

Thanks, Loy. That is cool.

Jim