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Tierra_y_Libertad
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Fri Feb-02-07 03:15 PM
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| 3. We were literally locked in our barracks. Complete with MPs to guard us. |
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I was stationed at El Toro in 1962. We were preparing for a "trans-pac" to Japan. Our planes had been junked and we were to get the planes of the squadron we were replacing.
El Toro was designated a target area during the crisis and all of the other squadrons were deployed to other, less dangerous (theoretically) bases. Because we had no planes, our squadron was left at El Toro. They literally chained the barracks doors shut and posted MPs to keep an eye on us and marched us to chow.
An unpleasant feeling being the sacrificial sitting ducks.
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