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- APA 38—USS Chilton
- Made a Med Cruise with K-3-2-2 on the Chilton in 61-62. It was an old tub but the Captain made sure ALL Marines worked and the CPO sent me to the barber shop. Never cut hair before that day and the swabbys on that ship hated me with a passion because they all looked liked jarheads. The CPO in charge gave me two extra days of liberty for doing a "great job" L/Cpl. T.R. Pemberton
- Yesterday
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Camp LeJeune (2nd Mar. Div) - 1949 - cleaning my BAR - lost it on forward slope of a hill March 2, 1951 courtesy incoming mortar fire. Went over the wall at Inchon Sept. 15, 1950 ... served under Lewis "Chesty" Puller at Hagaru at the reservoir. This aside: just prior to the Inchon landing my fire team leader Cpl Boyer, who had served under Puller in WW2, gathered us one evening in the cafeteria of the ship - says "Well children, it goes this way, the 7th got Litzenberg, …
Read More - In support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm
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This picture was taken a few days after my Units arrival in Saudi Arabia in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. My Unit arrived on Xmas eve 1990 and within 3 days they made sure to stick us (the Jarheads) out in the middle of nowhere. We continuously moved every few days up until the start off the ground offensive when we were staged outside Kuwait and consequently made the breach towards Kuwait city. This picture was taken during our first of many new hooch sites. Pictured are some of the …
Read More - Can Anyone Identify My Dad’s Marine Buddies
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Hello, my name is Lisa. My Father was GEORGE ORLOW BALL, he is the man in the middle of this photograph. But I do not know who his friends were. Can you identify the other two men for me??? And possibly where and when this photo was taken??? George O. Ball was born August 8, 1930 in Johnson City, NY. Son of George L. Ball and Olna M. (Demming) Ball. He enlisted into the Marine Corps August 10, 1948 in Albany, NY. At the age of only 18. He served …
Read More - Remembrance of those in Beirut
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Attached please find a picture of the monument erected/constructed by the Military Order of the Devil Dogs, a subsidiary of the Marine Corps League. A few of the members of the Devil Dogs, were wondering what we could do as to the remembrance of those that had fallen in the disaster in Beruit, and started a collection in which we could have families of some of the victims flown in to the base to be here with their members. We got in a little more than expected so they decided …
Read More - TOW Missile Training Camp Lejuene
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In 1976 I was assigned to cover the firing of the TOW Missile by Marines of the 2nd Marine Division to go with a story the Joint Public Affairs Office at Camp Lejeune was going to release. At first we found it difficult to catch the missile as it came out the tube, just before its rocket moto kicked in. I asked one of the officers at the site to describe what happens and what the timing is between the missile being launched and the motor kicking it. With the …
Read More - Marine Corps Hymn Power
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Ron Sandburg of Bixby, OK, came by the store the other day. He has installed one of the horns on his scooter. Just after entering the doorway he plays it. You know.... the women in my office just do not appreciate the positive benefits of hearing the Marines' Hymn at high decibel levels. So I took his picture and here he is. Cpl Ron Sandburg is a WWII vet. 2nd MarDiv, 3rd Bn, 10th Marines, H Btty. Saipan - Tarawa - Tinian Ps: I forgot to add that he likes …
Read More - 2nd Reunion
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This is our second reunion since I got out in 1983, and found these guys thanks to my computer. There were three that couldn't make it this year including a lt. col. that is retiring next year. We were his first unit as a second lt. We are planning on going to camp Lejune for the ceremony in June 2002. I'm still looking for a few more marines that we served with. By the way my last name is Fioretti, nobody said it right it just came out Freddy, after …
Read More - Midnight Radio Watch
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This picture was taken in the field in Italy near Naples January 86. Pictured left to right are Cpl Bob"Mannix" Maniscalco, Cpl Carlos "Little Juan" Torres, LCpl Steve "Shit Kicker" Tuey, and me Cpl Howard Cooper. It was certainly cold that night. Our taxi, the Guadalcanal (LPH-7) was docked in Naples. Soon after this picture was taken we got the news the Challenger had exploded during liftoff. It's like do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot, when Elvis died, when the Berlin Wall fell, and September 11th, …
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