Re: War time buddies

[<ChosinMead@aol.com>]

I believe the Army rotated every 12 months, the Marines every 13 months. In my experience, the bond was and is still strong. After training together for a year in Camp Lejeune, our entire company shipped out together to make the INchon Landing. We Spent another year together in Korea, we rotated home together after 13 months. Since the Marine Corps is a relatively small organization, a lot of us ended up at the same base. The Marine Corps is a smaller tighter knit organization, we have a tradition of Esprit de Corps (Once a Marine-Always a Marine) that binds us tighter than most. Those bonds are renewed every year at our annual division reunion. Lee