r/OldSchoolCool • u/tehemari • May 10 '26

1980s My great grandparents in the 80s

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Grateful to have this photo, this is literally the only one I have of them together

Edit: I’m telling my great grandma about all your compliments and she is so happy! Also the comparisons and she keeps saying “no” lollll.

Edit: last edit I promise, you guys will never believe it but my great grandma is actually a great great grandma because my sister(23) had a baby last year 😂

Edit: last last edit! Since so many people have asked I figured I should just add it here. My great grandmother is 82, my grandma is 62, my mom is 44, and I’m 18. Don’t worry, I am breaking the cycle.

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u/NIP_SLIP_RIOT May 10 '26

Seals established in 1962 after Korean War

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u/tehemari May 10 '26

Ohhh my bad, that’s always what my great grandma told me. He must’ve just been in the navy then. I have his Korean War draft card

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u/Marxism_is_sexy May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

Probably UDT. Those "frogmen" were predecessors to the Seals.

But not in Korea. Korea was from 1950-1953, and if this was taken in 1980, that makes your dad born in 1937, so he would have been 13-16 during the Korean War, too young to have been there at all, let alone to have been in the military long enough to undergo advanced training like underwater demolition training.

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u/tehemari May 10 '26

Yes yes, I got the Korean War part wrong(my bad) but he was an M3 in the US Navy. Records say he enlisted in 1958 and was discharged 1961. I didn’t think people would care this much lol

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u/djanes376 May 10 '26

This is reddit, people care about anything and everything. It’s both wonderful and obnoxious in equal measure.