in the 80s there would be rows of telephone booths in each camp.
does anyone have any pictures off them to share.
remember when calling cards came out?
does anyone have any pictures off them to share.
remember when calling cards came out?
Yeah, we would have been beat (literally) in 1980.Got in a bit of trouble making a phone call while in boot camp during rifle qual stage of my training.
This was in 85 and my drill instructors were pissed to no end. Must have lost 10lbs after doing all those exercises. Another DI ratted us out. It was still worth it. LolYeah, we would have been beat (literally) in 1980.
I may have some pictures Of Mainside but it'll be a few days to look
On one of my deployments, we were the cool kids who gave away our USO provided pre-paid calling cards. We had a phone and a passcode to call the states for free in our office.Kids today won’t know the panic of losing their stack of pre-paid calling cards.
Gained some Good Samaritan points with that one man. I was in during the MySpace era of MWR phone banks. The terminal lance comic strip that showed what went down was spot on.On one of my deployments, we were the cool kids who gave away our USO provided pre-paid calling cards. We had a phone and a passcode to call the states for free in our office.
The Lejeune phone center was the only place I ever bounced a check at, don’t float checks on base... Got off with an ass reaming by the First Shirt, and went back to good ol’ letters home. Which I hardly wrote. And I didn’t call. I still don’t.
My mother once sent me a message “Why does find friends say you’re in Saudi Arabia”? My step-father told me it wasn’t bad that I don’t call often, but I am expected to at least tell my mother when I’m leaving the country for several months for work.
Remember the "Arrive Alive" free taxi ride card when you got a little drunky with your Marines at the Margarita Rocks or Purple Palace? And then, and then.... spiking IV's at the barracks... and occasional stitches!Distinctly remember devil dogs running up their calling card debts on those phones and getting in trouble with their commands.
I wasn't one of them.
Similiar but different.
There were (still not?) no public phones on Hammelburg in the late 90s/early 2000.
Courtesy 8th Air Force?
3/9 86 to 90in the 80s there would be rows of telephone booths in each camp.
does anyone have any pictures off them to share.
remember when calling cards came out?
There were a bunch of pay phones at the BMT Squadron buildings on Lackland when I was there in 2007
Shit, the pay phones on Camp Geiger stayed until the early 2000’s. At least I used them in 2005 to call home once, then figured it’s easier to go out in J-action-ville and do hood rat stuff with my hood rat friends!
Jacksonville, Florida....the only place on earth someone could give you directions to anywhere, based solely on strip club locations.
That is also similar to the greater Lejeune area. Between strip clubs, barber shops, and tattoo parlors you can get anywhere!
Google them! Once you get to be our age you don't have time to explain what they were no more.What the fuck is a pay phone?!