Pretty good episode, and technically the first but the fifth episode shows Lt. Bill Rice showing up to Camp Pendleton to lead his squadron (guess that's a prequel), and in this case he's been there long enough to be asked to help his old friend, and what a flake Bixby's character is, and he plays it effectively, if a bit overdone...
It's fun watching him con his way in and out of the barracks, and then romancing while establishing the pretty brunette bar owner, who'd be a regular throughout the show...
Not Bixby, though, who had and would appear in several Elvis Presley movies like our man Gary Lockwood, with a sore on his bottom lip that's kind of distracting in this, the first episode that feels very lived in and experienced, a good thing actually. Here we get to see the difference between a real marine and a rebellious one. Lockwood is fantastic in this series.