When I arrived home, less than a week from the war, I wanted my parents to bear a full measure of guilt for my walking the final two miles with a full
seabag.
Seabag over his shoulder, he swaggered down the dock past Moss and Seth sitting, smoking, waiting for Bo.
As I shouldered my
seabag, I knocked on Sqig's door and told him I was ready for my ride to the air station.
In that regard, there wasn't much transition to becoming a Marine: shrug into my harness, sling my rifle, hoist my
seabag, and I was ready to lock, load & rock.
The
seabag activity asks participants to pack a personal
seabag and then, introspectively, look for relationships between the contents of their
seabag and the 6 dimensions of health.
He tasked MCPON(SS/AW) Terry Scott to review the Navy's
seabag to help meet the needs of tomorrow's Sailors.
Developed in World War II from the Marine Corps
seabag, it featured an improved closure and Chafing band.
When a Coast Guard search party found explosives in a
seabag, and a hat emblazoned with a Nazi swastika buried in the beach sand, they realised that Nazi saboteurs had landed in America.
Mac's
seabag is full of equally evocative images that unashamedly glorify the Corps even as they conjure an interwar world where a ubiquitous American military, by implication if not in fact, acted swiftly and decisively against its future adversaries.
Naval Academy, can recall the gear issue process and marching back to the barracks carrying a
seabag which felt like it was loaded with anvils.
Dad came down the gangway with a
seabag and a big, olive drab suitcase-like container.
The old, worn-out attitude of "a wife wasn't issued with the
seabag" has given way to more enlightened attitudes concerning family readiness.
With my ride planned, bike packed,
seabag (with clothes) strapped to the sissy bar, and saddlebags loaded, I set out for Key West by way of North Carolina; Atlanta, Ga.; and Ocala and Palm Bay, Fla.
Your readiness is not limited to packing your
seabag and heading up the brow.
