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Got on my treadmill and Fortunate Son by CCR came on my music mix. Love that song.
Most fortunate sons and daughters I've known or known of neither want or expect pull from their parents. My son, not a fortunate son, introduced me to the second most influential Marine general in the Corps last Christmas. Many feel he will be the next commandant. We were in the base gym and immediately hit it off and swapped sea stories for several minutes. He said his son is a Marine logistics officer. I asked if that was his first choice and he said no but that's what he got. No favors from dad apparently.
On the USS Bowen we had an HT3 whose dad was the MCPON, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, while he was in boot camp. Brian was a great guy and hard worker. I asked him one day if people treated him differently because of who his dad was. He said, yep, everybody tried kissing up and he just wanted to do boot camp like everybody else. I looked him up awhile back. He retired as an HTC. His dad came to eat with us in the Mess on a Wednesday when we had Bowen Battle Burgers. He was a great guy as well.
Most fortunate sons and daughters I've known or known of neither want or expect pull from their parents. My son, not a fortunate son, introduced me to the second most influential Marine general in the Corps last Christmas. Many feel he will be the next commandant. We were in the base gym and immediately hit it off and swapped sea stories for several minutes. He said his son is a Marine logistics officer. I asked if that was his first choice and he said no but that's what he got. No favors from dad apparently.
On the USS Bowen we had an HT3 whose dad was the MCPON, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, while he was in boot camp. Brian was a great guy and hard worker. I asked him one day if people treated him differently because of who his dad was. He said, yep, everybody tried kissing up and he just wanted to do boot camp like everybody else. I looked him up awhile back. He retired as an HTC. His dad came to eat with us in the Mess on a Wednesday when we had Bowen Battle Burgers. He was a great guy as well.