Computer Geeks vs. Marines
In April of 1966, I was drafted into the U.S. Army (Vietnam Era) and served as a computer analyst at Third Army Headquarters at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia, with the Third U. S. Army Data Processing Company.Every company on the post had a football team. Plus there was a company of U.S. Marines stationed at a nearby supply depot that filled out our 6-team league.
We played touch football.
In the military, that meant it was illegal to break bones during a touch.
The Marines and the data processors met in October of 1967. During warm-ups, the Marines appeared confident. After all, they were big, tough dudes with necks as big as their thighs and we were computer geeks.
We had enough players to field a team, as long as we played both ways, with a couple players left over for emergency.
I often played fullback and middle linebacker. This night I was the center and a defensive lineman.
As usual, John Danko, a notorious street fighter from north Minneapolis gave us an emotional boost. Just before he kicked off to open the game, he pointed at some of the nastiest-looking Marines and announced he was going to stomp them into the ground.
When Danko kicked the ball to start the game, eleven computer geeks, including me, stormed down the field like we were all blood kin to Dick Butkus.
Thus began an evening of pure mayhem.
In the first half, Staff Sergeant Jackson blew out a knee in a pileup and was carted off to the hospital. He was replaced at defensive tackle by a guy from Philadelphia named Phillips, a decent athlete with good size.
In the third quarter, the biggest Marine on the offensive line nailed Phillips in the mouth with a forearm. Phillips lost several front teeth and was bleeding badly from a split lip, so he left the game and went off to be repaired.
John Wright, linebacker, took my place at defensive end while I slipped into the tackle position previously occupied by Jackson and Phillips. Wright was an excellent athlete, tall with speed.
When we lined up again, I told the molester of computer geeks, in rather colorful language, that he was about to encounter the next level of bad. Rather than intimidating him, it made him smile.
In the last quarter, the score was still zero-zero.
We had the marines backed up deep in their own territory when they ran up the middle. Somehow, my elbow smacked into the biggest offensive lineman's mouth. It drew blood but his teeth remained intact.
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In April of 1966, I was drafted into the US Army (Vietnam Era) and served as a computer analyst at Third Army Headquarters at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia, with the Third US Army Data Processing Company. Every company on the post had a football
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Wise was born at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Ga. She traveled extensively as a child with her parents Johnny and Magdalene Morgan. Morgan retired from the Marines and moved to Frostproof in 1964. Wise began her junior year at Frostproof High School and
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