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  • January 12, 2019

    What I Did At Summer Camp

    Actually, I started boot camp in mid-september, but it was still so hot during the day at Parris Island, South Carolina ,that black flags flew for several days during the first few weeks there. Black Flag Days were designed to...

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  • January 5, 2019

    Managed To Smuggle

    RE: Operation STEEL PIKE – shipped out of Charleston, SC on board the APA Geiger with MACS-6 in 1963. First day out we hit one h&ll of a storm. First lesson learned – always be the 1st person along the...

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  • January 5, 2019

    DI Motivation and Inspiration

    We all have something our DI’s said to us or made us do. Something that inspires and motivates us to this day. Send me your example. Semper FiSgt Grit

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  • January 5, 2019

    From Polio To 1st Lt

    In early June, 1941 I had me tonsils nearly rupture and I had to have emergency surgery. Ten days later I was back at the hospital with paralytic polio (it was the wrong time of the year.) By 1942 I...

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  • January 5, 2019

    And I'd Been His

    I served in Vietnam as a helicopter machine gunner and a proud member of HMM-262 (66/67). I received a purple heart for my efforts. When I returned from Vietnam, I had the feeling that as an air wing Marine, I...

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  • January 5, 2019

    It Doesn't Pay to Mess with an Old Marine

    Many years ago my oldest son, Ted, started dating a young lady who happened to be working at the grocery store where my younger son, Tim, was a manager. As it turned out the girlfriend had recently signed enlistment papers...

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  • December 29, 2018

    The Gunny's Basic Rules

    RULE 1 The Gunny is always right. RULE 2 In the impossible hypothesis that a subordinate or officer may be right, rule 1 becomes immediately effective. RULE 3 The Gunny does not sleep; he rests. RULE 4 The Gunny is never late; he is...

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  • December 29, 2018

    Banana Fleet

    There is not many older Marines to remember serving aboard the Banana Fleet. I enlisted in the Marine Corps in May 1934 at the Milk St. Recruiting Office in Boston Ma. After being processed along with seven other from Maine,...

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