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pecosbob

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2. I was inducted into the U.S. Navy on Sept. 1, 1976 in Galveston. These are a few of my true stories.
Thu Nov 6, 2025, 07:31 PM
Thursday

Travelled to forty-two different countries. Sailed around the world...twice. Met Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Saw the Shogun's Palace and the war memorial at Nagasaki. Dove on the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns and shared an apartment with five guys on the north shore of Oahu. Got a tattoo from Doc Webb in San Diego. Watched steam rise from Mauna Kea and from Aetna and from Vesuvius. Bought tailor-made crackerjacks in Hong Kong and was detained by British CID. Passed on a chance to go AWOL and sail the world on a tall ship with a bunch of Danish university students...something I still regret. Pinged the heck out of a lot of whales as we chased Soviet submarines all over the Pacific Ocean...another regret. Absolutely did not sell some really good Hawaiian pot to those USAID spooks on Guadalcanal.

Went to school for a few years under the old G.I. Bill. Got old...

That's what Bonespurs missed out on...

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