After six months at Basic School in Quantico, Jim went on to Marine Air Control training and Ron entered the flight training program. Ron thinks they were in Vietnam at the same time in the 1968-1969 timeframe and did contact each other a couple of times over the years; primarily ...
Only a few days after graduation, he joined the Marine Corps as an officer candidate, and began his career at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He did well in training and was consistently rated “very good” and “excellent” on his annual fitness reports. His duty posts were typical for a you...