Boot Camp Deli ma
By: D. R. Winston
The day had finally come for Mark
Fluet to leave home. He was so happy that he was going to be away
from his sister that he smiled for the first time in over 10 years.
The recruiter came to pick him up and he was driven to the meps
station in San Diego, California, where he awaited the plane to fly
him to New Jersey.
For the Boot Camp for the US Coast
Guard was in Cape May, New Jersey. There was all kinds of different
folks on that plane. One was going to be a solid friend, but believe
me it did not start out that way.
The night fell as they were all picked
up from the recreation center, the bus drove right to the front of
the gate, when a large man in a full dress coast guard uniform came
on to the bus. The group that was on the bus was a motley bunch Mark
Fluet was one of the guys with short hair, the rest were long haired
teens that were just out of high school as well.
“YOU MAGGOTTS HAVE 10 SECONDS TO GET
YOUR ASSES OFF THIS BUS, AND 5 OF THEM ARE ALREADY GONE!” Yelled
the large instructor. With that the bus started to clear out as 50
guys all tried to scramble for the exit.
The first week went through and then
Mark and recruit Warthen were assigned to Laundry detail. Well what
none of you folks out there reading this may know, but Mark R.
Fluet's Uncle was a Master Chief Petty Officer, and since the Coast
Guard was such a small branch of the armed forces, everyone knew the
name Fluet.
So in retrospect, Mark really could
not get away with anything because everyone was watching him. It was
a simple detail really, all they had to do was march to the laundry
and drop off the dirty laundry for the entire unit. Simple or not, it
was not going to end up that way. Warthen took one of the laundry
bags and hit Mark square in the Back of the head. Well, of course
Mark was going to retaliate so he struck Warthen with the dirty
underwear bag right smack in the mouth.
This exchange of hitting each other
only lasted but a few seconds when out of nowhere screamed an
instructor, “ YOU ASSHOLES GET DOWN!” This was the command to
drop and get ready to do push-ups till your body ached.
Warthen had a lot of days where him
and mark would be doing push-ups and sit ups till they were tired.
Mark and Warthen actually did become friends and Warthen took the
same first unit that Mark did, they were both assigned to the United
States Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau.
This ends this part, Tomorrow Ill tell
you a story of the most historical drug bust that Mark Fluet was a
part of.
D.R I had forgotten all of that, I still can see those days
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