I'm not sure if I ever did get all that red dirt washed off my back.
We would hear artillery in Marlow as the 105's roared and crews practiced on Sill's live fire range.
When we were on the rifle training range, we use to hear those shells flying over head....
we had them fall short at times... one fell short one day and hit a bus that had taken some of us out to the range..
the bus hit was the one I had rode out in....Typical Army, instead of sending out another bus or cattle car to pick us up..
they had us field march 15 miles back to the barracks area....
I wore out two pairs of combat boots at Ft Still in 8 weeks....they had to issue me two new pair when I got to Ft Sam...
did a lot of pushups also... after 8 weeks, I know Oklahoma was 50 ft closer to hell....than it had been when we got there..
But you got Lawton all wrong Cliff.. if you think Lawton really sucks.. you evidently have never been to New Jersey...
