Donald Orosz:  

Military I joined the United States Marine Corps on May 29th 1989, after living in Phoenix Arizona for about a year. I was the recruiters wet dream I suppose. I walked right in and said "Sign me up". My parents thought I was lying when I told them that I was leaving. Even though the recruiter came to the house several times for me to sign some paperwork they did not believe. In fact the hard realization of it came at 0430 the morning I left, when the door bell rang and I was gone. I attended boot camp in San Diego California and graduated on Aug 25th with platoon 3041. My senior drill instructor was SSgt Tuthill and our heavy was Sgt Dietchi. From there I was sent to MCT at Camp Pendleton Ca. I dont remember much due the fatigue and high paced training. Although we did get some libbo but the adventures are vague, but I do remember walking alot. In Sept. of the same year I attended MOS school at Court House Bay Jacksonville NC. Then was assigned to 8th Engineer Support Batallion, Camp Lejeune. Rather quickly at the flip of a coin I was reassigned to MSSG-24 and spent the next 18 Months in the Meddeteranian Sea. I participated in Desert Storm with this unit and have a picture in the Marine Corps History Book. In December of 1993 I recieved orders to Marine Corps Base Hawaii, BSSG-1, which was shortly renamed CSSG-3. I spent 4 years there with minimal deployments to anywhere. I served as a Platoon Sgt, Training NCO, Embark NCO, Floor Chief, Maintenance Chief, etc.... Mostly I learned to surf the waters of Hawaii and I met my current wife there in 1995. In 1997 I was sent back to Camp Lej. and participated in 2 disaster relief operations. One in Nicaragua(where I caught Malaria) and the other in Puerto Rico. After 2 short years back at 8th ESB I recieved orders to Marine Corps Engineer School. I spent 4 and 1/...Expand for more