Though it wasn't often that I got to wear my “pickle suit” or service alpha uniform, I always loved it.
There’s also that sense of thinking, “What’re you gonna do? By the time you can file paperwork on me, I’ll be out anyway.” I put in my time, performed well enough, and was getting out, so when I had just two or three weeks left, I felt comfortable ducking out of the occasional field day or dodging the company gunny’s angry knife hands.
For me, I felt like I was finally able to cash in on the good credit I’d built over the past four years and two deployments. There’s nothing quite like that feeling of invincibility you have right before you get out.
Sledge, a machine gunner assigned to Weapons Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, relaxes on a rock wall prior to participating in a night raid aboard Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, April 17, 2015.
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