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Never Forget Them
April 27, 2016 Grunt.com Admin

Never Forget Them

Picture taken on graduation day for platoon 374 in back of the barracks on the third battalion drill field with the mess hall in the background. Left is SDI Gunnery Sergeant Kearney. Purple Heart from a shot in the stomach on Saipan. A model for R Lee Ermey. To his right is Staff Sgt. Wright JDI, Purple Heart in Korea, heavy weight boxing champ for the Marines in 1956. Missing in the shot is Sgt. Murphy the other JDI. Never forget them or platoon 374.

Norm Spilleth

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jerry powers - July 10, 2020

was at echo. i am not sure if i was in vietnam. if anyone remember let me know let me know. was in different places. can remember certain things. go to va. tenn.live in north carolina. i was in hosiptals in 1973. did good till paris peace accords. though war was over in march 1973. went in jan 6 1972. new a lot of marines. maybe you remember me my name is jerry warren powers. 3051 was in parris island.

Henry young sr - July 10, 2020

From news letter 4/27/16… Cpl De(duffle bag) I too was part of Operation Steel Pike…. I too was on the LPH you referred to…. The name of the ship USS Guadlecanal. I was with H Co 2/8…. This memory is still fresh with me because on the way back to Lejuene I was privileged to stand guard over the bodies…… Anyone else out there from H 2/8… Aug.64 thru July 65….. hyoungsr@hotmail.com…… Semper Fi 64/69

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