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Friday nights in the South.  

EOM April 2014 Traywick Squirrel Sales

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TFM= Traywick Family Matters Journey            

May 23, 2014       

Welcome to LA 

The neighborhood watch captain and welcome committee announces

Traywick Squirrel Sales, LLC 

Bipolar Employee of the Month April 2014

"Never Nervous" Mervis Traywick 

Live and direct from the headquarters located in beautiful Kudzu Acres office Park

Traywick Squirrel Sales

Hwy 411 south 

Muleshoe, ALabama  BR549 

AKA "Green Acres" / "Gooberville on the Little Cahaba"

And Mrs Mervis Traywick attended the ceremony.

And remember, Mondays AND Thursdays are Squirrel Day at Traywick Squirrel sales; 

You bring a squirrel, and we give you a squirrel 

You never drink twice from the same stream. 

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Blue ointment USMC

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ROF= Ring of fire journey

CL = Camp LeJeune, NC 

Monday August, 1971 morning formation 0700

another blast from the past...

1971, Camp LeJeune/ Camp Geiger. After graduating Marine Corp boot camp at PI - Parris Island - we went back home on 10 days leave. Reporting back in at Camp Geiger/ Camp LeJeune, NC for ITR - Infantry Training Regiment= infantry/ grunt training before going into the fleet/ Corps. 

We got assigned to a holding company/ platoon for about a week to 10 days to form up a battalion of 400 Marines for infantry training. The days work was doing base maintenance, details assigned to permanent personnel operations/ platoons. Any day could be Painting, policing up areas around the base, cleaning garbage cans at the mess hall. ... just general work details of 5 to 10 Marines. The Marine Corps doesn't let you just sit down and do nothing; there's plenty of things to do, paint and polish.

Then we went through ITR- Infantry Training Regiment-  US Marine Corps infantry grunt training, which was an ordeal in itself and then went to our respective MOS- Military Occupational Specialty- school; our training for our assigned job in the Marine Corps.   

I was designated MOS 1371- Combat Engineer. And reported to MCES- Marine corps Engineer School, courthouse Bay, Camp LeJeune, NC. Again, we reported in and were in a holding platoon until enough Marines mustered to form a platoon class. 

about the 4th day, morning formation 0700. We'd already been to the mess hall at 0600. We form up in our assigned platoons ... there were about 2 company's of Marines now. Marines reporting in back from leave were reporting in every day. 

One of the Marine stragglers had come in the afternoon the day before,... and evidently had gotten a bad case of the crabs while on leave,... and went to sick bay with the bad case of the crabs... tiny lice like bugs.  

Next morning formation, 0700, this guys falls in formation... Blue! Blue face, blue ears, blue hair, blue hands, blue eyebrows... every square inch of this guy had been painted with blue ointment from sick bay from head to toe.

You talk about getting the horselaugh... it was an uproar of giggling and laughing. The platoon Sergeant couldn't keep a straight face. You couldn't look at this guy and not start to laugh so hard you'd cry or wet your pants... that kinda laughing. A platoon of Marines giggling...

And this was before there were smurfs. the little blue cartoon characters.

Gunny couldn't even hold it & told him to get the hell in the back where he was out of sight.

Couple of Marines started the Elvis song Blue Christmas. Am sure that was not the 1st or last time that occurred but it was was an event. There's nothing like the Marines.

Traywick rule

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ROF= Ring of Fire Odyssey  

MEF-H = Marine Expeditionary Force- Hargus 

AL = Alabama journey; set your watch back 20 years           

May 2014  Possum down       

Had a rat killin' last night. Tour guide leaving the Traywick Kudzu museum reported a varmint in some front entrance shrubbery. 

The suspect varmint turned out to be a possum. 

Traywick rule: If you are going to deal with a varmint; then you have to THINK like a varmint

Hit varmint a couple times with the daisy to break his viciousness.

Then let him out of the trap,... to give him a sporting chance.... before I put the ya-hoo on him with a shovel. Possum Down.

You never drink twice from the same stream. 

Just because you wander doesn't mean you're lost. 

Uncle Hargus: Last of the Independents  

Have Bear,    

          Will Travel 

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