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In
March of 2008, I heard from Keith Pang for the first time since
bootcamp. Ends up he lives in Temecula which is about 45 minutes
north of where I lived while stationed at MCRD San Digo. He
relayed this great story about our shared bootcamp experience:
Reading
about your clock story reminded me
about my own story.
One
night it was my time to do fire watch and all is well until
the watch that was taped to the duty hut window fell down.
Thoughts raced through my mind on what to do. I had no idea
what time it was.
Do
I dare attempt to wake Sgt Robinson?
In
the end I decided to quietly enter the duty hut and paste
the watch back on.
It
was quite frightening opening the door and slowly walking
in and fixing the watch. I was thinking that any moment he
would wake up.
But
my stealth got me in and out of there without anybody noticing.
Whew, what a relief.
I
KNOW I would not have had the stones to do that and I tip my
hat to Pang. Damn hardcore, Marine.
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