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Politics : Ask Michael Burke

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To: bruiser98 who wrote (111871)3/3/2008 7:01:15 PM
From: Bill/WA  Read Replies (1) of 132070
 
OT, re: lifers & getting out early.

Was in the SeaBees. Got sent to Vietnam Oct ’66 for a year shore duty. Had the option of extending there for 6 or 12 months (with 30 days free leave & a free ticket ANYWHERE in the free world). Same deal…get out 3 months early (if you had 3 months or less to serve). I just extended for the 6 months so that I wouldn’t have enough time left to be sent back. Some of my buddies took the full year extension. We were in a relative “safe” location…Chu Lai.

ps: we had one guy that took the 30 days basket leave in Tahiti
pps: they tried to get me to re-up...I told them I'd never keep a job that I couldn't tell my boss to go to hell & quit anytime I wanted!
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