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Veterans

TomSlick

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1. Reserve IDs used to be pink (officially red). It really chapped reservists.

Reply to mrmpa (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 10:16 PM

May 2018

Maybe when your boyfriend was discharged he was transferred to the Marine Reserves? You can be in the Individual Reserve and never have to go to a meeting, etc.

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Does anyone remember.............. [View all] mrmpa May 2018 OP

Reserve IDs used to be pink (officially red). It really chapped reservists. TomSlick May 2018 #1

I can recall seeing a military ID card that was pink, not the standard green PoindexterOglethorpe May 2018 #2

It was issued if his orginal enlistment... NeoGreen May 2018 #3

The RR (or IRR when I was in) is no joke Victor_c3 May 2018 #4