Veterans...Get the hell in here now!
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BarnBuster
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My Men Had Served a Year in Hell. I Was Getting Them Home, Come Humid Hell or High Water.
Second Lt. Marvin Wolf overcame obstacle after obstacle to ensure 150 enlisted troops got home from a combat tour in Vietnam on a C-141 aircraft.
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injinji
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On the Saipan there was a certain amount of color based prejudges when it came to work shirts. No one wanted to be around the purple shirts, they always stank of jet fuel. And everyone knew to shout when talking to a green shirt. They were always hard of hearing. When it came to safety meetings, if you saw a red shirt smoking, you knew it was safe to smoke.
All kidding aside, the Saipan was full of fuckups, so there was plenty of folks who suffered from pigmentation based bias. Our Electrical Officer was Filipino. He was a great electrician, but his English was not so great. It was not uncommon for someone to say something like "give me (a word for African Americans starting with N), someone I can understand." But then the Navy was last when it came to letting non white folks into the ratings.