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- I volunteered
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I enlisted in the Marines in 1968 out of high school on a delayed entry program…arrived in San Diego in October…went through infantry training…set foot in Nam in Arpil ’69…..assigned to Delta Co 1 / 4 3rd Marine Div in I Corp…after a few months our radio man rotated to the world…I volunteered to carry it…..I did not know the life expectancy of a radioman was about 3 seconds…I was given a codebook, map, and compass…. that was my training….having to negotiate the bush by compass and map greatly improved …
Read More - NYC Vets Day Parade - Oldest and Youngest Medal of Honor recipients
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NYC. Vets Day Parade ...The Best Picture You’ll See All Day Oldest and Youngest living Medal of Honor recipients Nicolas Oresko and Dakota Meyer.
- Australia
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I was reading your story about the hitchhiker in Australia when it reminded me of my own experience there. It was 1976 and we had just finished operation Kangaroo II and the ship that I was on went to Brisbane for a little R & R. Another Marine and I were walking into town when a married couple picked us up. He was in the Austrailian Army Medical Corps. The couple took us to their apartment and treated us like family. For the entire week that we were there …
Read More - The P-7/ LVT7A1 ASSUALT AMPHIBIANS
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It's been a few decades since i have been in, when i got out i went in cogneto, after bout 7 month's of tryin to get my head on straight, i finaly found a job, i work with aero space a mech and built all the P-7 when they got the new face lift from the old hyd to elec control, and for the older vet, they dont have leavers on them to pull and push for the steering, it is now a wheel that looks like a butter fly, …
Read More - Highway 17
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Sgt Grit, Wanted to forward this picture along. It was taken back in 1983 somewhere in the bush on Lejeune. I am far left. The others are buddies Thor Dellerson second from left, Efren Mercado in the front and Danny Wilson far right to the rear. The picture was taken by my other buddy Tim Wheeler who incidentally still keeps in touch with me to this day. Buddies Pete Foss and Narvel Hesson were also there but not in the picture. All of us were 0331's with Weapons platoon, Lima, …
Read More - Combat to combo master
- So after the long grueling trip back from Kuwait, my platoon arrived back onboard KMCAS Hawaii and we were shown to our respective barracks. It was zero dark thirty and nobody was around as we observed that our rooms had combo locks on the doors. Every single one of us Marines had a room awaiting us with an unknown combo lock keeping us from the comfort of a bed. Something long dreamed of. We had just spent several months in the desert mostly sleeping in the pits of sand we …
Read More - Proud to be a Marine
- I did my time and am proud of it. I run into a lot of People who see my Marine hat as I wear them all the time and they say are you an X Marine? Well that gets me going as I tell them their is no such thing as an xMarine. I tell them it is somthing you earn it is not given to you. I have decals on ym truck to let everone knoew I am a Marine. My wife will drive my truck and people will …
Read More - It’s Customary
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The first photo was me as the Senior Drill Instructor (center w/black belt around my waist) as I was picking up my very last platoon of new recruits in early 1992. I have a video of this as well I'd be happy to show you when we meet. Being a Drill Instructor was very taxing in that you were with the recruits for 16 hours every day and 24 hours every 3rd day for the 13 week duration they were in Recruit Training. The second photo is my …
Read More - 50th
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September this year attend 50th HS reunion... July was 50th year/month since I joined the Corps. Semper Fi still strong.- Irv
- Running with Marines
- Thanks to Bob Skeels (TBS 8-68) Received today from the son of a Marine. Air Force Chaplain runs w/Marines A message from Chaplain Johnson (LtCol, USAF)... Chaplain's Thought Last Thursday morning I was one of more than 300 runners in the NSA Armed Forces Week 5K run ( Ft. Meade , MD ). It was pretty crowded at the start, but things thinned out after about five minutes or so, and I took my bearings. Perhaps 200 yards ahead of me was a group of maybe 8 Marines or so …
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