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I bought a Corvette a couple years back, couldn't get '67USMC' for a license plate-I have '66USMC'. The ODMV has some strange ways of assigning personalized numbers and most of the ones I came up with were declined.
I finally tried 'VMO2VT' and it went through. Last week I was selling white clovers for AMVETS in a bank lot. My car was in back, a guy stopped and asked if it was mine. Assuming that he was a winger, I asked what squadron he was in, he answered none, I was a grunt. He then went on to say how much the grunts appreciated Hueys and other helicopters becaused they saved their rearend many times. That was the first time I felt like it was worth the time in country.
Mike Miller
VMO2 4/66-11/67`
Posted : 2007-11-08 15:30
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Hay MIke. use to live in Ohio, now in Alabama, pretty much the same set up. finally got mine. USMC 261. in 61-62 under Col. Steel that was the best time of my life. " middy "
Posted : 2007-11-30 15:37
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My Texas Vietnam Veteran plates read HMM-262. That, plus my Marine Corps EGA sticker and my Popasmoke sticker, kind of makes my car stand out. I can't count the times that I have been stopped or followed around a parking lot for someone to shout: "Semper Fi, I was with, HMM164..., VMO-2..., HMH-463..., etc. etc." Just like you Mike, "same, same" with several Grunts.
One of the best happened at a gas station in Houston. A Marine Corps red pick up with a "SEMPER FI" all across its back window came swooping in to the pump next to me. I said: "Semper Fi! Take a look at my license plate." It was Doc Galarza, who had been a Corpsman with HMM-262 in 70-71 when the squadron was rotated out of Nam, back to K-Bay.
Small world.
S/F
Jake
Posted : 2007-12-01 11:03
