Consider the Keg tapped! First beer poured!

[JITB]

That's my main adult beverage. Of course, my waistline indicates that I consume a little too much beer over the course of a day!

[Freebyrdjason]

Well, in about 3 hours.... I'll take a cold Budweiser please....:D

[jarhead3531]

Got any 101 wild turkey?:D on the rocks if you please!

[Buka Man]

I could do a Tecate with lime right now....:mad:

[Cpl Miller]

no Old Grandad lovers around here....bunch of wimps. ha ha

[jarhead3531]

well........... if you insst. As long as it's at least 100 proof, cause it's fixin ' to get cold up here.

[Cpl Miller]

you can even add 7-up for all I care. ha ha

Up where?

[jarhead3531]

between the catskill and berkshire mtns. Not bad yet only 30's at nite. Perfect drinkin weather. LOL:D

[Jenks]

Can a Lcpl of Marines get a beer in this joint?

[heishman]

You sure can Devildog, let me buy you your first one.

[doubler826]

All during Boot Camp and ITR my DI's and Troop Handlers kept talking about an ice cold Falstaff, I'll have what they're having, anybody got one?

[phazer]

damn I"m thirsty:rolleyes:

[JITB]

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[Freebyrdjason]

I'll take a Budweiser if'n ye got any....:cool:

[Jenks]

Step up to the bar and I will buy the first one.
Semper Fi:p

[govern4]

tell mama san I'll have a Purple Haze:D

[Freebyrdjason]

Originally posted by govern4
tell mama san I'll have a Purple Haze:D

Sure thing! Oh yeah, and I'm having a 7 and 7 tonight hahahaha

[Cpl Miller]

SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW Gin in my days.....

[Jenks]

Okay mama san one Purple Haze, one 7 & 7, one Slow Gin and one case of Falstaff for me and my friends.:D

[Admin]

Do they still make Falstaff beer??

[Jenks]

I don't know but they did when I was in 59- 65. Bought it at the EM club by the case.

[Cpl Miller]

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[JITB]

It was when I was there in 61 & 62. The beer of choice then was Rolling Rock in those little pony cans that were 6 or 7 OZ.

[Cpl Miller]

it was Colt 45 malt during High School. Once in the Corps as a young pvt I was directed by some old salts to get with it, and out of the beer habit. This is why I mentioned Slow Gin, it was sweet but the hang over was a killer.

I remember the first time we hit B St. on Okinawa with a couple of Marines that had been on the rock for a year or so. They took us young recruits under their wing and proceeded to get us messed up on drinks and the OTHER fun stuff. At 17, and with no experience in this area I just followed the plan set by the old salts. I could never party that hard today. ha ha

[Jenks]

When I was in HS it was Oly and little stubby cans of County Club Malt a six pack would get three of us going pretty good.

[JITB]

I remember when dat came out! It was after I got out of the Corps. As far as the pony Rolling Rocks go, at the time they were popular at Lejeune in the late 50's and early 60's, it was one of the strongest beers you could get.

We had a Buck Sergeant in 2nd 8" Howitzer (SP). He orginally joined the Corps in WWII and was a Raider. After the war, he got out. When the Korean War started, he went back in and saw combat there also. He got out again but decided, after a few years, he didn't like civilian life. So, he went back into the Corps and said he would stay in the Corps until they forced him out.

Sergeant Ski was one of the nicest Marines I ever met. He never had a bad word to say about anyone. But each night, he would go back to the wall locker walled off section of the squad bay and hit a Karate board about 200 times with each fist and do about 100 situps and push ups! He never went on liberty except to go to the enlisted slopchute each Saturday night. He would order those Rolling Rocks in pony cans but wouldn't let the barkeep take the empty cans off of the bar. He would stack up the cans and when he had a full case stacked up on the bar, he would go back to the barracks. Nobody in their right mind ever did anything that might bring out his "Dark Side"!

[Cpl Miller]

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[DocB]

IS this homebrew or what?

Any Squadbay refugees here?

[JITB]

Where else would a Marine live?

[DocB]

Originally posted by JITB
Where else would a Marine live?

as in www.thesquadbay.com

I see a few names here I recognise.

[JITB]

You will find a lot of people from other Marine forums here. Squadbay, TWS, Popasmoke, etc. We welcome all Marines, FMF Corpsmen and friends and families of Marines.

[DocB]

No Prob!

It begs the question tho: Do squadbays still exist? I know a young DD in my old unit 3/8 and they have dorm style rooms now.

[JITB]

But, mostly at training facilities. Of course, recruits live in squadbays but they are a lot nicer than the squadbays I lived in when I did my stay at Parris Island. Hell, today's recruits have airconditioning, washing machines and all sorts of comfort things! Rumor has it that DI's even come around to each rack and tuck in the recruits when they go beddy-by!

[Cpl Miller]

squadbays were all we had. Racks separated by wall lockers. Two Marines per cube, with two wall lockers per cube. At the end of each squadbay were a line of wall lockers that went across the squadbay, the only openning was in the cent of the room. This was the NCO area.

When we first landed on Okinawa in 65 the one thing I couldn't beleive was the fact we had a mess hall on the lower deck of the building, each building had it's own mess hall. Go figure, this (Camp Sukeran) was an Army base.

[JITB]

When I was in, I always lived in a squadbay. Every squadbay I lived in had the traditional rack set up of double racks with about a 3-4 foot space between your rack and the next one. Wall-lockers were set up next to each other down the center of the barracks. The only sleeping areas partitioned off by wall-lockers was the sleeping areas for the Sergeants.

[bensgtusmc]

I'm good to go!

[snuffy106]

Jest Goldens wiskey in a corroded tin canteen cup , or suntory I dont care jest get it here.

[Shered]

Well in my four years 1959 -1963 the only squad bays I had was in boot camp and when I was at Camp LeJeune for six months. I was in quanson huts or tents or on a troop ship the rest of my time . No fans or air condition then. You felt really priviledged if you had a window by your rack. Now that was real air condition.

[jvmcgeeney]

My first experience was at P.I. where we were in the "new" barracks which were two or three stories and brick and concrete.Each level was meant to house a platoon. Went on to ITR at Camp Geiger and old Quonset Huts of Corrugated steel. After that, it was on to NAS Memphis for A school. There we lived in Luxury. Four man rooms with enough room for each man to have some privacy.

When I first checked in to Cherry Point I lived in a squad Bay. After becoming "Permanent Personnel" I again got to share a room with several other Marines.

The last barracks I lived in was Building 210 which housed Marines from Group Supply.

My last housing was at MEMQ #5 Morehead Ct., Ft. Macon. (off base) Out the main gate and take an immediate left.My wife and I lived in a three bedroom duplex. It was actually pretty nice. No A.C. tho'. That's my housing history, USMC style. Oh yeah, I skipped one.
I also lived at 694A Franklin Rd. MEMQ on base housing.

[JITB]

When I got to Parris Island, we actually stayed overnight in a squadbay at Recruit Receiving. The next day, we went to the white, wood barracks of 1st Battalion. I only stayed there a month before I had to spend two weeks in the hospital. That made it necessary to set me back. I was transferred to the 3rd Battalion and spent my remaining days on Parris Island in a 16 man Quonset hut. Because our normal lodging was Quonset huts, our platoon had first choice at taking a squadbay in one of the few barracks at the rifle range when we went there. But our SDI felt he didn't want to see us spoiled so we ended up in Quonset huts at the rifle range also.

I was in a barracks squadbay at ITR. When I reported into Marine Barracks Norfolk, the barracks was all squadbays for anyone under the rank of Sergeant. At Armed Forces Staff College, we stayed in a two squadbay barracks with Navy in one squadbay and the Marine security detachment in the other.

Back at Camp Lejeune, I was in a brick barracks while in 2nd 8" Howitzer Battery (SP). I went on a Med Cruise but I would have to say our quarters aboard the USS Traverse County was more like a squadbay 1/3rd the size of any land squadbay with that many men that I saw. The last couple of months in the Corps was the only time I wasn't in a squadbay. I was at Main Gate Camp Lejeune and we stayed in a house near the gate.

[Marine1955]

Hope you serve P.B.R. cause i cut my teeth on that beer when i was a kid in the old days now i drink bud light and Rich and Rare whiskey with diet ginger alehttp://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/marine1955_2009/th_Animated_beer_pouring_into_glass_hg.gif (http://s588.photobucket.com/albums/ss329/marine1955_2009/?action=view&current=Animated_beer_pouring_into_glass_hg.gif)

[jvmcgeeney]

Man that crap will do a number on ya. Don't ya know that's what causes hangovers and liver problems!::

[JITB]

Yup! The only other liquid I want in my Jack Daniels is the water from the melted ice cubes.

[Marine1955]

Man that crap will do a number on ya. Don't ya know that's what causes hangovers and liver problems!::
Hate to say this, but i've less hang overs with d.g.a. than water or regular coke or pepsi.. so d.g.a. is the only way to go.. many maany moons have passed and i still feel good from drinking it...Semper Fi

[JITB]

Although I mostly drink Jack Daniels, I sometimes do other bourbons. I'll also do most any Canadian whisky. One thing I never do is put anything but ice in whatever I drink and I never get hangovers.

[Shered]

Are you saying that Jack Daniels is a Bourbon ? A Tenn. Whiskey . (Although I mostly drink Jack Daniels, I sometimes do other bourbons.) For the record for anyone that doesn't know . Bourbon is made only in Kentucky.

[JITB]

Although most package stores and bars place Jack Daniels in the "Bourbon" section, it is really a sour mash whiskey which is different than a bourbon whiskey.

[Marine1955]

F.Y.I. BOURBON IS REALY BEER THATS GONE THREW ANOTHER STAGE OF REFINING TO WERE ITS TURN INTO BOURBON SO THE ONLY REASON I KNOW THAT IS I WATCH THE SHOW ON THIS FRIDAY AND THEY SHOWED HOW BROURBON WAS MADE.. SO THAT TELLS ME THAT YOU DRINK HIGH DOLLAR BEER HAHAHAHAHA
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[Marine1955]

When I got to Parris Island, we actually stayed overnight in a squadbay at Recruit Receiving. The next day, we went to the white, wood barracks of 1st Battalion. I only stayed there a month before I had to spend two weeks in the hospital. That made it necessary to set me back. I was transferred to the 3rd Battalion and spent my remaining days on Parris Island in a 16 man Quonset hut. Because our normal lodging was Quonset huts, our platoon had first choice at taking a squadbay in one of the few barracks at the rifle range when we went there. But our SDI felt he didn't want to see us spoiled so we ended up in Quonset huts at the rifle range also.

I was in a barracks squadbay at ITR. When I reported into Marine Barracks Norfolk, the barracks was all squadbays for anyone under the rank of Sergeant. At Armed Forces Staff College, we stayed in a two squadbay barracks with Navy in one squadbay and the Marine security detachment in the other.

Back at Camp Lejeune, I was in a brick barracks while in 2nd 8" Howitzer Battery (SP). I went on a Med Cruise but I would have to say our quarters aboard the USS Traverse County was more like a squadbay 1/3rd the size of any land squadbay with that many men that I saw. The last couple of months in the Corps was the only time I wasn't in a squadbay. I was at Main Gate Camp Lejeune and we stayed in a house near the gate.


was Chirst born then are what sh*t!! i can't tell who came first,, You old salt fart!!! any ways Semper Fi!! You Old fart we still like you. So, stay around and give us shizz ... we need it,,,young devil dog out

[jvmcgeeney]

I'll have an "Oly" and a double shot of Ol' Grandad, neat. And I ain't had a drink in damn near 20 years. (June 3, 1990). You all can buy them for me and just put 'em on ice. Next time I party I'll clean 'em up!!

[Marine1955]

I'll have an "Oly" and a double shot of Ol' Grandad, neat. And I ain't had a drink in damn near 20 years. (June 3, 1990). You all can buy them for me and just put 'em on ice. Next time I party I'll clean 'em up!!

how about a four shot of R&R with a dash of ginger ale. and I'll buy the first one.

[jvmcgeeney]

how about a four shot of R&R with a dash of ginger ale. and I'll buy the first one.

Sounds like a plan.I'm sitting here listening to old old country music. Jim Reeves, Patsy Cline, Bob Wills, and of course, some Hank Williiams.

[Donald J. Heck]

did you see the obit the other day on Hank Locklin passed on. My wife loved his singing. Hard liquor I haven't had a drink since 1976, it was either give up the liquor or my marriage, I am still married. Only drink colorado koolaid, long necks and it has to be ice cold. :D

[Marine1955]

I bet you got messed with when you younger Donald ,because of your last name . I know i did my D.I.'s would say come're Pilgrim like John Wayne would. And they always thought it was funny.

[Donald J. Heck]

never bothered me, all I would say is you spell it the way you say it. To this day it doesn't bother me.

[Marine1955]

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[jvmcgeeney]

did you see the obit the other day on Hank Locklin passed on. My wife loved his singing. Hard liquor I haven't had a drink since 1976, it was either give up the liquor or my marriage, I am still married. Only drink colorado koolaid, long necks and it has to be ice cold. :D

I didn't see it. I know he was popular when I was about 10 years old. I used to listen to WWVA Wheeling, WVa. 1300 AM. We didn't have many Country Radio stations around here then.

[Cpl Miller]

drink Ole Granddad. yuk yuk yuk

[Donald J. Heck]

had a drink of hard liquor since 1975, when I was given a choice that it was either the drinking or the marriage, I am still married. We made a deal I would give up the hard stuff but keep the beer, and it has worked. Can't remember the last time I had a hangover, but when I did drink it was IW Harper and Wild Turkey. Now its Coors Light ice cold, won't drink any warm beer, and it has to be long necks, no cans. :D

[MARINE42]

been gone for a bit just checking in

[psencik1950]

Dropped by to have a cold one and introduce myself. I know a few here fromthehalls.

An old doc who enjoyed my time with the Marines.

Ben Psencik

[Cpl Miller]

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