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- Problems with Recruit Training
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Sgt Grit, If you need to paraphrase or condense the following document you have my permission and the reason is because it is important to me to get this changed and I realize that it is long but I have a mild TBI and it now takes me 15 words to say something that might only take 5 words. I also want you to know I explained at the Battalion Level that the reason I wanted to pin my son was because when I was injured he would …
Read More - How to Become a Marine
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Easy>>>Just ask "Big Brother". In my case "Big Brother" was my eldest brother MSGT B. C. Mc Nulty USMC, who at the time was the local Marine Corps Recruiter here. He told me to bring along another family brother and we could get 2 for 1. I did this and brought my brother Russell with me to the Recruiting Office. The attached photo was printed in the local newspaper in 1948. A sad note to this was that Russell was KIA in Korea in 1950. Big Brother B. C. went …
Read More - Marine Corps Pride for Life
- Great comments by General Amos about being a Marine for life. I graduated from Parris Island in 1980. The day I graduated, the Marine Corp became a life style. I was discharged in 1986 and became a State Trooper. The discipline and pride instilled in me has remained throughout my career as a Trooper. I wear my uniform with pride, and I continue to represent the United States Marine Corps with the honor the Corps has and continues to earn. " Semper Fi " for life. Sgt. Mike Collins - …
Read More - It’s Official. Once a Marine, Always a Marine!
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Marines, listen up! The Commandant has spoken!!!! No more "former" Marines!! View the CMC's Planning Guidance CMC's Planning Guidance: It begins with the Commandant's Priorities, then his Planning Guidance follow, and is in turn followed by some very important information, important to all of us. A quote from the Commandant, General James F. Amos: "A Marine is a Marine. I set that policy two weeks ago - there's no such thing as a former Marine. You're a Marine, just in a different uniform and …
Read More - “Flying Leathernecks” released in 1951
- Flying Leathernecks By: Gerald F. Merna, 1stLt USMC (Ret.) Sgt. Grit: In your April 15th Newsletter both you and Cpl Itchmo reminisced about the stories of John Wayne and several of his movies, particularly True Grit (where you got the "moniker" that has stood you in good stead all these years), Sands of Iwo Jima and Flying Leathernecks. I'm sure you two were among the many that were so "influenced" by the John Wayne Marine portrayals that became the "driving force" fulfilling your desires to become United States Marines. Well …
Read More - Article from Thomaston Times
- Hello, Marine Moms To the editor: My husband, John, was in the Corps for six years. He's no longer on active duty but as you are aware, "Once A Marine, Always A Marine." My father was one of the 'Chosen Few' (Korea). My oldest brother is another "Once-Always Marine," as well as one of my husband's brothers. I also have a brother who was in the Army National Guard, and another of my husband's brothers has just gotten out of the Navy (but still active in the reserves) after several …
Read More - Radm J. Stark, USN, President of the Naval War College Speech
- A speech by Radm J. Stark, USN, President of the Naval War College, made in Newport, RI on 10 Nov 1995 The first reason I like Marines: They set high standards for themselves and those around them, and will accept nothing less. I like the way Marines march. I like the way Marines do their basic training whether it's Quantico, Parris Island, or San Diego. I like the idea that Marines cultivate an ethos conductive of producing hard people in a soft age. I like the fact that Marines stay …
Read More - Semper Fi: Marine at the OKC Federal Building Bombing
- "Semper Fi In Oklahoma City" HEADQUARTERS, U.S. MARINE CORPS, Washington, D.C. -- In the American heartland a stunned nation stood paralyzed by the face of domestic terror. For rescuers who clawed at crumbled concrete, time lacked importance. The search for hope slipped quietly beyond reach as efforts there shifted to the recovery of bombing victims. And dead children. Buried beneath the surface of shock, rested hundreds of humbling stories of simple men, one unknown to the other, who bonded in a common, virtuous struggle spawned by an evil act. April …
Read More - Marine Corps Emblem at The Wall
- Polishing The Marine Corps Emblem By: Tad Lincoln Palmer I thought I would relay my memory of respect from the general public. I have visited D.C. at least four times since I was 15 years old. The last trip I took I was still employed by the Corps, and it was with my wife at the time. She had never seen D.C., so I wanted to take a trip and show her the sights...one of those sights being the Vietnam Memorial. I was not born until 1971, but I have …
Read More - Marine Writes Home…
- Marine writes to his friends and family, I am the proud mother of two United States Marines. I noticed the page of poems & etc written by Marines. My older son was out at sea when 9/11 occured. He sent a letter home that brought tears to my eyes. I sent copies of it out with my Christmas cards that year. Thank You, Dorothy D. Di Liddo To my friends and family, No doubt you have a lot of questions, and I wish I had a lot of answers but …
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