Marine Joke
A Marine is traveling home on Christmas leave in his blues and the airline puts him in first class when he checks in. He boards the plane and sits down next to a Catholic Priest – also traveling in first...
A Marine is traveling home on Christmas leave in his blues and the airline puts him in first class when he checks in. He boards the plane and sits down next to a Catholic Priest – also traveling in first...
Cpl. Tyler A. Frazier, a mortar Marine with 3d Battalion, 7th Marines, who recently returned to Twentynine Palms following a deployment with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Crisis Response – Central Command, was awarded the Purple Heart Medal...
#MARINE OF THE WEEK // “When you inflict that number of casualties on the enemy and none of us were killed, that’s a pretty successful fight” Gunnery Sgt Brian BlonderForce Reconnaissance Platoon, 2nd Battalion, 7th MarinesShewan, AfghanistanAugust 8, 2008Award: Navy Cross...
It was photographs and video scenes of American casualties lining the beach that would stun the American people in the aftermath of the Battle of Tarawa. Imagery of significant casualties floating in the surf disturbed the public, setting into motion...
As the nation mourns the passing of one its finest patriots, current and former members of the Marine Band remember President George H. W. Bush as a man whose love of music and uncommon graciousness elevated the unique relationship between...
Christmas Eve 1968, while at the Liberty Bridge compound, about 1800 We were sitting around playing some “back alley bridge” when our platoon sgt walked into the hooch and said that he had a gift for us. From behind his...
As I sit here watching the state funneral of President George H.W. Bush, I’m reminded of a very brief enconter with the man when he was Vice President in the spring of 1984. I was on the staff of USCentCom...
Early 1967, I arrived at the An Hoa Combat Base from FLC (Fork Lift Command) at Red Beach, attached to the LSU (Logistic Support Unit). One of the first nights there, I attended the outdoor movies that were famous, or...
When my buddies back in the United States were studying for their mid-terms, I was walking point for the first platoon of Bravo Company in the tropical jungles of Vietnam. Unlike the many occasions students are afforded leisure time –...