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	Collins, Jerry R.  1st E-Mail: Date Saturday, May 14, 2011, Ar: 7:36 PM PSTime       Hi fellows,  I was pleasantly surprised to run across information on 144. My name is Jerry R. Collins and I am in the group photo with you. Would love to hear from you all. I will return message when I hear from you and let you know what i have bewen doing in my life since I left The Marines.  Jerry R. Collins, E-Mail: cjerry65@gmail.com  2nd E-Mail: Date Monday, May 23, 2011 At: 6:37 PM PSTime  Great to hear from you Paul.  Hope more and more responds and that we get more emails. It sounds like you have had an eventful life since leaving the corps. I think there were a lot in 144 from the Kansas and Missouri area. I recall the final check up on Walnut Street in Kansas City before we flew straight to San Diego when all the "fun" began. Like I said , a large number in this group was from that area. Some of you may remember me boxing at the "smoker" and I played on the MCRD football team. One of the games I really got clobbered in and remember waking up in the Balboa Naval Hospital. After the Corps I got into pro wrestling at the urgeing of Sonny Myers who was quite a star around the St. Joseph, Missouri area. After making a fool out of myself in this racket, I got into something more stable for my future. I went to work at The Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, Kansas. About 3 years before my retirement from the prison I bought into an old fashioned under the big top circus . After retirement from the prison I went into the circus business full time and traveled througout the Midwest. I have slowed down a bit and now do the bookings and advance marketing for 3 different shows. I presently live in Leavenworth, Kansas. I have 2 daughters and 2 grandsons. Hope to get more email from the fellows. Who knows, one of you might live up the street from me. Jerry R. Collins, E-Mail: cjerry65@gmail.com
	Daigger, Roger W. ~ Captain  Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010 At: 2:05 PM PSTime       Hello Paul,  This is Captain Roger Daigger (USMC Ret). I ran across your blog once before and tried to contact you, but was not successfull. It now appears you have added much more to your site. Hope to hear from you and swap sea stories.  Regards, Rog  E-Mail: r-jdaigger@peoplepc.com  Rog,  I do remember, you at boot. Do you believe it's been 51 years since June 1959! So tell me how life is treating you. Did you make a carrer of the Corp.? Did you marry?, Children? Occupation? prsjr
	Ford, Calvert I.  Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 At: 4:49 PM PSTime       Paul, Ran across the page at ancestry.com. Have often wondered what happened to all those guys. Have not been in contact with any of them.  Calvert I. Ford  E-Mail: calford@lidodeckcruises.com  Cal,  I do remember, you at boot. Do you believe it's been 51 years since June 1959! So tell me how life is treating you. Did you make a carrer of the Corp.? Did you marry?, Children? Occupation? prsjr
	Sarrett, Paul R. ~ Sgt. (E-4)  Date: 20 Jun 2001       After Boot Camp in Sep 1959, I was assigned to "Mike" Company, 3rd Bat., 5th Div. (3/5) We left San Diego, Calif. on Dec 01, 1959 to "The Monastery," Camp Schwab, Okinawa, we returned to the States on Feb 15, 1961, 14 months & 13 days. I went on leave back to Kansas City, Missouri where I married my High School sweathart (We met in 7th Grade) Roselle E. JAYNE, on March 25th, 1961. We packed her stuff, & rented a U-Haul and left on our honeymoon to San Clemente, Calif. I had changed my MOS is Sep 1960 as a "Cook" and was assigned to HQC Battalion, I was the Mess Sgt at San Onofre, Camp Pendleton, later when the new San Onofre NCO Club open up, I was one of the watch Sgt in the Food Club. I stayed their until I was Honorable Discharged on 11 April 1963.      Roselle & I had two daughters, by then and moved up to Garden Grove, Orange Co., where we had two more daughters. I went to work for U-Tote-Tum Convenience Store, later they became Stop-in-Go, In Mar 1965 I went to work for Speedee Mart, now 7-Eleven Food Stores and spent 33 years with them was the Construction Engineer which built over 2,747 stores in the 10 western states. I retired in 1998 & moved to a 7.5 acres farm just outside of Auburn, Placer Co., Calif.      Roselle & I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary last March, we renewd our wedding vows last June, in Wiki, Hawaii. All four of our daughters, are College educated Professional Women, all married and we have 10 adorable Grandchildren.      Hobbies: Woodworking, Master Wood Turner & Carver; Family History; Genealogy; and our 10 Grandchildren.  "Pauly" Sarrett  E-Mail: prsjr@att.net

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