BOOT TOSSING

I never gave much thought to all the military boots I've seen dangling from overhead wires in all my Marine Corps years.  While on a walk aboard Camp Pendleton with Jillian, Olive and Pepper; however, this particular pair of boots caught my attention. 

I always knew that a pair of boots hanging from a power line or telephone wire signified the end of a Marines career, be it honorable or dishonorable.

There was nothing special about this pair; they just hung there like the hundreds I've seen in the past, but the reason they caught my attention this day was the idea of my career coming to a twenty-year end in just over three years. 

Will I, too, participate in this non-doctrinal practice?  Not anytime soon.  Jillian and I have discussed our career at length and we've decided that we will stay in for as long as possible towards the maximum allowed thirty years...just around the corner.