Marine Corps Stories - Beirut
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- the devils dog
- 2 times I went to the root. what a deal cause I was in the same platoon as cpl chuck. I remember him well. as I was a sniper in the sta plt HandS Co. For 20 Years I was not able to tell anyone that I was a former Marine, due the embarrasement of The Beirut incident. Why did Reagan pull us out? This is when a major offensive should have occured. If so I Believe we would still have two towers standing in New York. The Marines forgot where they were …
Read More - cpl Chuck E.
- Semper Fi MARINES....with so much to reflect on, how can you say it in so few words? H&S co. 2/6....I sat in the barraks the whole tour manning an intel radio (S-2). Now and again I'd walk a patrol thru "hooterville" with an unloaded weapon thinking to myself....there's something basically WRONG with this!! Anyway, when the "speaker of the house" came thru with his platoon of staff officers he decided we needed to take down all the tar barrels and tangle foot we had in place. Thank the Lord for …
Read More - Beirut Vets In Massachusetts for Daryll Bradley
- For daryll Bradley, Hey Marine. We must have crossed paths over there I was a track commander with 3/8. Anyway most of us went to the State Police. Steve Godfrey is still on the job and chapter president of the mass. chapter of Beirut Vets. He could find some guys for you if you want. Semper Fi
- beirut marine
- went there twice 81 83 with fox co. 2/8 camp geiger miss u guys semper fi holla at me in va.
- Beirut
- Looking for anyone who served in Beirut from Feb 14th--May 29! 2nd LSB. Part of our unit were attch at Black Beach and the others were at an old schoolhouse close to the airport! L/cpl Steve Stewart
- Mr. Bradley H&S 2/6 Beirut
- I was the Amtrac platoon sgt attached to Golf 2/6. We were positioned along the runway perimeter. My Comm Tractors were positioned next to the building that got blown up. We were there when the embassy went up. There is a little more during our tour there. I am originally from Lynn Mass. Lynn English 1964.
- How Sgt. Grit changed my Marine Corps life and Marine Corps family.
- I'm a Beirut Marine (Feb.-May'83 & Oct.-Dec.'83)with 2/6 H&S Co. Comm. Plt. I was coming home from work one day and I was behind a truck with a "Beirut Marine" bumper sticker (from Sgt. Grit.com of course). First of all,ever since I've been out of the corps,I have never heard of Sgt. Grit or have I ever met any Beirut vets here in my hometown of Lynn,Mass. As I was saying,I'm behind the truck with the bumper sticker. I hollered out,"when were you in Beirut?",he hollered back at me,"Oct.-Dec.'83". I asked, "who were you with?" …
Read More - My time in Beirut
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I would like to share some memories of my own, and see if anyone of your readers served in Beirut, especially between August 1982 and February 1984. I was with Bravo Co. 1/8, 24th MAU, incountry May to November 1983. I have good memories and bad, as anyone who has been in combat has. Some of the good ones usually involve the crazy things that we did to keep our sanity, ie practical jokes on each other, or just silly things, like the night we took a close hit …
Read More - Beirut Memorial
- Beirut Memorial Greetings All... (Please, read the article I have included at the end of this email.) My time in Beirut Lebanon came after the October 23, 1983 bombing of the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (1/8) Barracks. When 2/8 relieved them, they became the last unit deployed as part of the "MultiNational Peacekeeping Force". When my unit, 3/8, relieved 2/8, we became the "External Security Force" for the U.S./U.K. Embassy. The Men that died are my Brothers - Marines, Sailors and Soldiers alike. For the U.S. Postmaster General and the …
Read More - Beirut Bob and Sgt Grit
- Beirut Bob and Sgt Grit Sgt Grit and Beruit Bob
