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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hooper" data-source="post: 4365071" data-attributes="member: 46111">Since this Post I have once again become interested in obtaining the service records of my Grandfather, 4 Uncles, and most recent my Nephew who was a Sailor/Navy Medic. I have seen a picture of two of my Uncles while they were in Korea, one was a Marine, one was Army, the Army Uncle sort of went AWOL to find my Marine Uncle, while on a duty break. He snuck off without permission. Somehow he found out, or knew, where his brother was at in another area and Hitched rides on supply vehicles to get to him to visit. It just so happened while on his mission of visiting his brother, a military news reporter seen them together in a chow hall reading a local newspaper from back home, He snapped a picture and put it in a military news article, showing the two brothers reading their local paper, from back home. He never knew My Uncle had left his post area, without reporting or asking permission. Uncle made it back to his post without anyone knowing he had left to visit his brother. He later obtained a photo from the article the reporter had done, and it was sent to the local newspaper and was published in the local paper.  It made headlines in the local paper, Two Brothers serving together in Korea the Headline read. No one ever knew that one was there away from his duty post. He also used to sneak of base at FT Sill during Boot Camp to meet his Girlfriend who became his wife shortly after bootcamp. My Dad would pick him up, somewhere along the perimeter fence, where he learned he could sneak out. As far as I know he was never caught in any of his shenanigans.Just wanted to share the story. It is pretty light hearted and brings me a lot of cheer to think about it and my Uncles.I would Love to Honor them by passing there Military Service Records on to future Family.</blockquote>

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