Funny, I had three years of Japanese Language and Composition, on the GI Bill after I got out of the Marines. But that was over 40 years ago. Now it's all gone blank. Unless I'm in a Sushi Bar. Then the names of Fish come back after the second hit of hot Sake.
You must have been in the PI a while, Ken. Cubi Pt or Subic Bay? We [VMA-513] rolled into Cubi a couple times in '76. Usually on a round robin: MCAS Iwakuni > Kadena AB, Okinawa > NAS Cubi Point, PI > Iwakuni,our home base. In July of '76 I was on a 2 week deployment to PoHang ROKMB, then back to Kadena. I picked up some Japanese, but my street jargon was considered vulgar when I tried it at the Dept of Oriental Studies at the U of AZ later. Tagalog and Korean I never got. Except for loan words that crept into WestPac fleet slang. ''Kamisha ibnida'' means Thank you very much in Korean. Comshaw is ''stolen Government Property'' in fleet slang.
72 to 74 two WesPac tours. Subic on an oiler. I was curious and the locals loved teaching me. Lovely people. Great food.
This tool weighs the canister. I will try to remember to post a photo in use. I assumed too much in my OP.
