During The Vietnam Area In Boot Camp You Could ...

During the Vietnam area in Boot Camp you could have 25 or 30 companies eating during a two-hour period. That’s about 2000 Sailors. All theses companies are in formation and waiting their turn to eat. Company after company lined up about 3 or 4 feet apart. We had been in Boot Camp a little over a week. We were early for chow and not many companies were present. While standing there in formation we heard the command “Company 208 Forward March.” And away we went. Oh, we were marching so well. Our “Guide On” was counting cadence and singing “You had a good home and you left, your right, you had a good home and you left.” We were marching away from the Galley. Finically our “Recruit CPO” realized that it wasn’t our Company Commander that told us to march. It was the Company beside of us. By the time we got back two Companies had gotten in the Galley before us. After that we learned and chose to hear only the voice of the old Chief. If it wasn’t his voice we didn’t do it. And we learn if it was his voice we were to do it.