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The Right Thing....Marines, Navy, Army, Airforce, You Never Leave The Brotherhood

The Right Thing....Marines, Navy, Army, Airforce, You Never Leave The Brotherhood

Just a short note as an FYI. I am with a Marine Captain and his wife in Palm Coast Florida. It is a little bit of a story, but he has a heart procedure on Monday Morning in Daytona beach, then again, they just evacuated the hospital there. I drove in from Pensacola two days ago to help them out. We had been visiting a Marine Colonel Fighter pilot and his wife in Piney Flats, Tennessee.

The hurricane is heading right towards us and should be here sometime tomorrow afternoon. We have secured the house as best we could. We picked up supplies, are using the freezer to make ice, and we have booze. Our ladies are real troopers, they had the chance to leave but of course, Angela would not leave “Crunch” and Terry, as nervous as she is, would not leave me. Crunch is an interesting Marine. Google “Heroes Under Fire, Captain Crunch” from the History Channel. There are “A Few Good Men”

In the a.m. clean the tub, fill it with water, put our luggage in green garbage bags and put it on the highest things in the house as I plan on leaving Sunday to get to Orlando and fly home Monday morning…come hell or high water. I have many friends that are Marines and have had he good fortune of seeing them again on this trip. Terry and I could have left, but hey, when I grew up, I did not have a safe room when someone said stuff I didn’t like.

It is a great thing for all of us, after all these years, “I got his six”and we will all get thru this together. Their house may be gone,there possessions lost, but we will get thru this as a team…Marines….the cell is giving us alerts every half hour and the inland mile of coast has been ordered to evacuate. After the passage, the worry will be protecting property. Two Marines, guns and ammo, water and food and two good women, Chesty would love it that we, after all these years still take care of each other. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome.

–Gerry A. Flowers

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Comments

Cpl E-4, 59-65 - June 21, 2020

I’m out of here!!! Don’t like changes!!!

Jerry D. - June 21, 2020

Sold to a dog face? Absolutely hate the new format and will never buy from “Sgt Grit” again. Bad move Marine. I’m outta here. Semper Fi Fidelis Ad Mortem

Sgt. John Vogel USMC 51-61 /Korea 52-53 - June 21, 2020

Me, I think I will hang it up. Don’t like this format, don’t like buying Marine gear from a doggie.

Jim Davis - June 21, 2020

HATE IT – CHANGE BACK. WHO IN THE HELL AUTHORIZED THE CHANGE? SNAFU – A CHINEESE CLUSTER F___!

Gene - June 21, 2020

Please return to the older format. Why did you f##k with it? It wasn’t broke. Are you sure you weren’t a swabby?

Cpl R.A. Kiser, USMC 1965-1971 - June 21, 2020

and if Grit was sold to a non Marine so much for shopping and spending my hard earned retirement here.

Cpl. R.A. Kiser, USMC 1965-1971 - June 21, 2020

Like everything else in this world things that are working are never “improved’ just screwed up. Go back to the old format, and the same applies to our beloved Corps, go back to boot camp without the political correctness.

Bob H. - June 21, 2020

Negative on new format. Why change it to begin with?

Gunny48 - June 21, 2020

If Hitlery gets “elected” she’ll sell the Corps. Semper fidelis.

Bob Bliss ’63-’67 - June 21, 2020

Sgt. Grit was sold? I missed that, too. Just like I miss the old format. I’m with you guys. Go back to the previous format. New stuff is NOT necessarily the best.

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