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Jim Boger last modified: April 22, 2007
Personal Information:
Member Status: Profile
First MI Last Name: Jim Boger
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Email: boger_AT_comporium_DOT_net
City: Fort Mill
State: South Carolina
ZIP: 29715
Country: United States
Gender: Male
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Occupation: retired
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USMC:
Years in-out: 1959-1963
Vietnam in-out: 1962
MOS-Language: 2571
Last Rank: LCpl
Now Then
Conflicts I was awarded medals
War zone locations - year Other CT locations - year
  Vietnam: Pleiku 1962
  United States: Imperial Beach, CA 1960
  United States: Kaneohe Bay, HI 1961

USMC Travels:

(These dates are approx.it has been a long time)
11/59-3/60 C.T. school Imperial Beach,Ca.
5/60-11/61 Co.G USMC US Naval Base Kenitra,Morocco.-- I was t.a.d. to the 6th.fleet during this time frame aboard the USS Intrepid and USS Shangri-La.
11/61-4/62 1st composite radio co. Kaneohe Bay HI
4/62-9/62 Detachment 1 1st composite radio co. Pleiku So.Vietnam
9/62-4/63 1st composite radio co. Kaneohe Bay HI
4/63-5/63 Headquarters and service btn.Camp Pendleton Ca.

Personal Quote:

"If the dog hadn't stopped to s___,he would have caught the rabbit"
AGYSGT.W.J.Semons
Senior Drill Instructor Plt. 126
MCRD Parris Island,SC
Summer of '59

Hobbies:

riding motorcycle
working out with weights etc.

News:

Shortly after discharge, I became a long distance truckdriver,traveling coast to coast, border to border and sometimes Canada and Mexico.I did this for 39 years. I retired in 2003,after spending the last 12 years driving for Harley Davidson.
I have been happily married for 40 years,and have 2 grown children.
I work part time 1 day a week for an auto auction.

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