Insurance is likely to go up

[BullMeister]

Went in to my insurance company a couple of weeks ago to add the Mustang to my policy wearing one of my old navy command ball caps. While we were chatting he mentioned that he'd been in the Navy too as a corpman. Without thinking I blurted out "Oh, a pecker checker!". The girls at the desks behind him all had choking fits to keep from laughing.
Be interesting to see what my rates are the next time they come due. :lol:

[Lt. Dan]

:rofl:

[Squid]

:lol: That is too funny. My agent is a Marine. He takes massive amounts of crap from me when I go into the office.

[iNAN3 SOLDi3R]

Hahaha!

This should be interesting...

[808playboy]

Lmao

[Cobra Dan]

:lol:

[MustangSteveGT]

so you were a corpsman. thats what i am. i'm a 8483/8404 corpsman surgical tech.
always interesting conversations come from situations you run into in this rate

[04roush2]

:rofl:

[BullMeister]

Oh no, I wasn't a corpman. I spent all my time as a DP working in ASWOCs with the brownshoes (I doubt if my rate exists anymore. When I got out they were talking about merging it and creating a new rate called IR). I spent my last 4 1/2 yrs in, working at the ASWOC on Kadena airbase on Okinawa. That was great. I got to hitch rides on the training flights with P3 squadrons. Got to go to Hong Kong 8 or 9 times, Osan South Korea a couple dozen times, Went to the PI twice before Mt Pinatubo blew. Also hit the jackpot a got to spend 2 weeks in Melbourne Australia although I never really got to see that place in the daylight :D:D:D. When we landed I submitted my leave papers and didn't show up again until it was time to fly out. Any stories you've heard about Australia are true and it's really a sailor's paradise. Good thing it wasn't 3 weeks or I probably wouldn't have been able to recover from the trip. Only place I've ever been where the girls argue over who gets to take you home with them that night.:disturbed::disturbed::disturbed::disturbed: :disturbed:

[BullMeister]

MustangSteveGT - Saw you came from Okinawa. A guy I worked with sprained his ankle while playing Captain's cup softball and had to go to the hopital there. While he was crippin around there on crutches heading for xray he hit a wet patch that had just been swabbed and shattered one leg. Took 3 pins to put his leg back together. Looking back on it, it kinda sucks but at the time we thought it was pretty funny that his worst injuries came from going to medical. And yes, he said there were big yellow markers all over the place warning him to be careful.

[MustangSteveGT]

^wow thats some bad luck.
yeah i didn't have that great of a time in Okinawa. it's pretty locked down now. its not very much like the Okinawa people described it as being many years ago. makes me appreciate the states all the more

[BullMeister]

What do you mean by locked down? When I was there I moved off base after making E5. I lived at 373-454 Mizugama Kadena Cho (can't believe I still remember the address). If I remember the gates right it was about 3 blocks outside gate 4 on Kadena AFB (the one on the backside of the flightline). The locals were mostly a pretty friendly bunch. I used to hang out at a small club just a couple blocks from my apt with the locals and got to know quite a few of my neighbors. Most of them spoke english and I learned to speak pidgeon Japanese from them. The only complaints the locals had was that they wanted the land the bases were on for development (It is a pretty small island). The local girls were very friendly (If you wore anything with Mickey Mouse on it, you were in. Go figure).

[MustangSteveGT]

What do you mean by locked down?
-no leave aloud 1st 6 months on island
-couldn't be out past midnight whole first year on island
-couldn't leave base alone for whole first year on island
-0445 PT every other day,dont get off work till 430 or later
-duty every 6 days
-no driving on island whole first year (even people PCS'ing from mainland with Japanese driver's license couldn't drive in my unit)
-minimum 2 year orders there because the retention rate there was so low,everyone counted the days till they got to leave
-not enough girls at all, i didnt find the ones out in town attractive. the few there were in 3rd med bn ALL had STDs.
-anything you do elsewhere that gets you a slap on the hand anywhere else will get you demoted or ruin your career. they are bent on destroying people there. the morale was incredibly low

only good thins about okinawa...
COLA pay
historic tourist attractions
beautiful ocean...most of which i hardly got out to see since i hardly had enough time even to myself

the best time i spent in 3rd med bn was deployed elsewhere. MY favorite was Thailand , i also enjoyed Iraq at a trauma center and wanted to extend there just so i wouldn't have to come back to Okinawa. at least in Iraq they pay me to deal with the bull and treat me more like an adult

[BullMeister]

Good lord! Sounds like they've turned it into a prison!

I left there Feb 94. I arrived there on the 4th of July. We partied till the sun came up. Don't think I ever got back to my room before 2am while I was there. Too many clubs to go to out in town. Had my Jap license within 30 days. We went out all the time. The restaurants, video places and stores were all out in town. You couldn't move out in town until you made E5, but even the E1s had thier own private room in the barracks. Does gate 2 street even still exist? PT was when and if you wanted to. I enjoyed it enough that I extended there twice.

How do people get to the commisary (Kadena) or the big base PX (it was on a different marine base (Hanson?). Most of the places you needed to get to were on different bases.

My last semi-annual PRT before I got out took about 45 minutes. I walked it with a Pepsi cola in one hand, a cigarette in the other and a bleacher full of shipmates cheering me on:D.

Yeah, the COLA, comrats and OHA were great. I remember as a single E5 standing on the quarterdeck with 3 married guys comparing what we had in our wallets. Two of the guys had empty wallets (thier wives packed them sack lunches), one guy had $5 in his to buy dinner. I had 3 uncashed paychecks and $800 cash in my wallet.

If you ever get even the remoted chance to go to Australia, TAKE IT!! Even if it takes buying your own ticket. As soon as the girls down there hear your American accent and find out your a sailor they attach themselves to you in groups. In a lot of the towns the ratio of women to men is 60-70%. Because of that the guys down there don't treat them real good and have a 'That's nice, but what have you done for me lately attitude'. Treat them like you have to here stateside and they can't get enough of you. I never paid for a room and had to argue to pay for a drink the entire time I was down there. Had 3 or 4 beach parties too. Great place. They still remember that American sailors saved thier backsides during WWII like it was yesterday. A refreshing change from the short term memories exibited here stateside.

[MustangSteveGT]

Good lord! Sounds like they've turned it into a prison!
yep. they call it "the rock"

How do people get to the commisary (Kadena) or the big base PX (it was on a different marine base (Hanson?).
they have this retarded bus line called "the green line" it only runs to certain bases and they take you base by base, so in order to get from one base to another you might have connecting buses, each of which you have to wait for. by the time you do get driving privledges it isnt even worth buying a car with JCI (nazi japanese car inspection), getting the licenseplus cost of the car.


You had to go to the city at the southern end (Nago? can't remeber the name) to find them. Kept a lot of the love motels in business down there :D:D (What can I say? I was a horny teenager. Not the responsible adult and family man I am now (That's for my wife in case she does read this)).
the whore house that are open to americans only have old, ugly saggy titted loose women. the japanese hide anything good they have from you, like their lives depend on it

i would LOVE to go to Australia. I've heard great stuff about the women. dont have much good to say about women here in the states nowadays. its pretty rediculous sometimes. its like the opposite of Australia how you were saying about the men having the attitude, only hear in America its the women that have that attitude and the ultimate control
i've thoroughly considered foreign women

[BullMeister]

It was called 'The Rock' when I was there too but that was because most guys didn't know where to go to get away from the bases and have fun.

When I was there it was about $1500-$2000 to get a nice car with a 2 yr JCI. If I remember right when I had to get it redone it cost somewhere between $600-$800.

Naha! That was the name of the town at the Southern end.