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Clark went on to tell us that we would provide a color guard every Friday for the recruit parade. There would also be color guard details all over the San Diego area. Any service club, school, ball team of any kind that wanted a color guard at their event could get one just by asking. “You’re lucky it isn’t football season or we might as well live in our dress blues.
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W.R. Spicer (Sea Stories of a U.S. Marine, Book 1, Stripes to Bars)
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On Sunday afternoon, we all went out and played touch football until it was time for the evening meal. One of the guys brought a football with him, something I couldn’t even imagine being done at boot camp. Of course this guy was an All-American football player, so why wouldn’t he bring a football.
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W.R. Spicer (Sea Stories of a U.S. Marine, Book 1, Stripes to Bars)