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Jarhed87
11-28-06, 04:06 PM
Who would have guessed?

http://www.corpsstories.com/famousmarines.htm

:marine:

yellowwing
11-29-06, 12:04 AM
Freddy Fender? Wow!

Dave Coup
11-29-06, 10:58 AM
Never mind Freddy Fender, Jonathan Winters! HOLY F#$k!

drumcorpssnare
11-29-06, 11:02 AM
Don't forget Eddie Albert (Green Acres) who was at Iwo Jima.

I remember watching Johnny Carson one night. Had to have been close to the Marine Corps Birthday, because Ed McMahon was in his Officer's Dress Blues. Johnny mentioned the Birthday, etc. then said, "Most people don't know Ed is credited with shooting down three Japanese planes.........Of course that was during the Korean War!" LOL:D

Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) was also at Iwo, with Robert Lehrer of the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour on PBS.

Jack Webb of "Dragnet" fame was also a U.S. Marine.

That is all.
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

Dave Coup
11-29-06, 12:41 PM
Ididn't know Eddie Albert was at Iwo. I do know he was at Tarawa and was credited with saving a gang of Marine lives. He was a Coxswain (I think) on some sort of landing craft.

SF

Dave

DWG
11-29-06, 12:47 PM
Don't forget Eddie Albert (Green Acres) who was at Iwo Jima.

I remember watching Johnny Carson one night. Had to have been close to the Marine Corps Birthday, because Ed McMahon was in his Officer's Dress Blues. Johnny mentioned the Birthday, etc. then said, "Most people don't know Ed is credited with shooting down three Japanese planes.........Of course that was during the Korean War!" LOL:D

Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) was also at Iwo, with Robert Lehrer of the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour on PBS.

Jack Webb of "Dragnet" fame was also a U.S. Marine.

That is all.
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

Bob Keeshan finished Boot Camp in '45 and never saw service in the Pacific-famous urban myth-Jack Webb was never in the Marines(AF) but he did paly a "swell DI"

outlaw3179
11-29-06, 12:47 PM
Shaggy was also a Marine...not the scooby doo one but the guy that sings the song "boombastic". So was Riddick Bowe....Oh wait no he wasnt he was just a pig pussy that couldnt hack it.

drumcorpssnare
11-29-06, 01:00 PM
D W-Didn't know that Captain Kangaroo wasn't on the rock. But when you think about it....can you really picture "Bunnyrabbit" and "Mr. Moose" in a foxhole with a genial old fella jingling a big set of keys?:banana:

Also, I wanna check into the Official Marine Corps History, regarding Lt./Col. McMahon shooting down Jap planes in 1951.:D

drumcorpssnare

DWG
11-29-06, 01:23 PM
D W-Didn't know that Captain Kangaroo wasn't on the rock. But when you think about it....can you really picture "Bunnyrabbit" and "Mr. Moose" in a foxhole with a genial old fella jingling a big set of keys?:banana:

Also, I wanna check into the Official Marine Corps History, regarding Lt./Col. McMahon shooting down Jap planes in 1951.:D

drumcorpssnare
Moose and bunnyrabbit were in the navy LOL-the big urban legend was Lee Marvin was wounded on Iwo and won a Silver Star-he told Johnny Carson that the bravest man on Iwo was a Sgt he passed, while being carried off the Rock, who was standing upright directing fire unmindful of enemy fire-his name was Sgt. Bob Keeshan, and he won the Navy Cross! Turns out, not only was Keeshan too young to have been at Iwo (see earlier post) Marvin was not on Iwo either-he had been wounded in an earlier campaign and was in the hospital (I think). Carson started the whole thing, Marvin was probably half in the bag, and any Marine will take a story and run with it, which is probably what happened. Marvin, like most Marines and more than some, was a big b***s***er! I think he did get a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. I don't think Ed McMahon flew fighters.

Camper51
11-29-06, 01:36 PM
I remember serving in the same company, at Camp Lejeune as the 1976, I think, gold medal olympic boxer, Leon Spinks.

He was a Marine but they had to send him packing, without busting him down, because he just would not return to work as a Marine after winning his gold medal. I guess he just thought he was above it all...

drumcorpssnare
11-29-06, 01:54 PM
D W- If Mr. Moose and Bunnyrabbit were in the Navy, then surely Mr. Creamjeans was too!:banana:

DWG
11-29-06, 02:16 PM
D W- If Mr. Moose and Bunnyrabbit were in the Navy, then surely Mr. Creamjeans was too!:banana:
He was a Rear Admiral!:D

10thzodiac
11-29-06, 08:30 PM
http://www.gijobs.net/media/Montel-Guam.jpgBull Ensign Williams in Gaum

http://www.gijobs.net/media/Montel-Becoming-Lieutenant.jpgMontel gets promoted to Lieutenant

Before he became famous, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating from a Baltimore high school in 1974. He received two meritorious promotions within six months, and was selected to the Naval Academy Preparatory School. After receiving a presidential appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, he became the first black Preparatory School alumnus to graduate from the Naval Academy.

Montel: As a matter of fact I was scheduled to graduate as a pilot. Right alongside my pre-commissioning physical, I had to go into the hospital for three weeks. Looking back in hindsight, most doctors think that was my first bout with multiple sclerosis. I had already had 36 hours toward my flight program. I went blind in my left eye. My vision didn’t come back all the way. I ended up going into the Navy. The only job I was qualified for there was cryptology. Intel was 1630, I was 1610. I served as a direct support cryptologic Officer until I came off active duty in ’89. The military kept me on temporary active duty until ’91 – until I started the show.

http://www.gijobs.net/magazine.cfm?issueId=51&id=691

SgtHopperUSMC
11-29-06, 10:28 PM
Don't forget Drew Carey...:)

crate78
11-30-06, 08:03 PM
I knew a GySgt who went through boot camp with the actor Sterling Hayden.

crate

drumcorpssnare
12-01-06, 07:13 AM
Seems to me my Dad told me the Forrest Tucker (F Troop) and Richard Widmark (various movies) were in the Corps.

Anyone confirm?

drumcorpssnare:usmc:

DWG
12-01-06, 07:29 AM
I think I read somewhere that Forrest Tucker was actually in the cavalry-he was old enough to be in the old horse troops-always thought it ironic he was in F-Troop. He was in Sands of Iwo Jima.

DWG
12-01-06, 08:39 AM
Tucker did enlist in a Cavalry reserve unit pre WW2, but served as enlisted reg army during war. Widmark had a perforated eardrum and never served (except in The Halls Of Montezuma).

drumcorpssnare
12-01-06, 08:55 AM
D W- Does that mean Richard Widmark was in the Mexican War?:D

DWG
12-01-06, 09:31 AM
LOL-Halls of Montezuma was probably one of the worst flicks about the Marines I've ever seen. Bogus plot, bad acting, poor actors. I felt sorry for Widmark since he was a good actor.:marine:

Hollywood
01-20-07, 01:32 PM
Steve Mcqueen, Leon Spinks, Dan Rather, Gene Hackaman.

gccoplen
01-20-07, 01:48 PM
Lee Marvin

booksbenji
01-20-07, 02:03 PM
he outbreak of World War II sent Albert into the U.S. Navy as a junior officer, and he distinguished himself during 1943 in the fighting on Tarawa. Assigned as the salvage officer in the shore party of the second landing wave (which engaged in heavy fighting with the Japanese), his job was to examine military equipment abandoned on the battlefield to see if it should be retrieved; but what he found were wounded men who had been left behind under heavy fire. Albert took them off the beach in a small launch not designed for that task, earning commendations for his bravery. A bona fide hero, he was sent home to support a War Bond drive (though he never traded on his war experiences, and didn't discussing them in detail on-camera until the 1990s).

Source: http://movies.aol.com/celebrity/eddie-albert/669/biography

Dan Rather's military service:

http://www.nndb.com/people/307/000022241/

http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2004/09/dan-rather-marines

Gene Hackaman:

http://www.nndb.com/people/878/000022812/

Capt. 'Roo:

http://www.snopes.com/military/marvin.asp

F Tucker:

http://www.nndb.com/people/947/000050797/


Leon Spinks:

http://www.nndb.com/people/248/000023179/

Drew Carey:

http://www.nndb.com/people/581/000025506/

Quinbo
01-20-07, 02:11 PM
Don Knotts was a Marine Corps drill instructor. Imagine Barney Fife calling cadance LOL

Quinbo
01-20-07, 02:14 PM
Belay my last. Don Knotts was in the Army. Sorry for passing scuttlebutt.

DWG
01-20-07, 02:20 PM
delete

FistFu68
01-20-07, 02:23 PM
:evilgrin: KENNY NORTON SR!THE MAN WHO BROKE (ALI'S JAW) :evilgrin: :D

booksbenji
01-20-07, 02:29 PM
who was and who was NOT a Jarhead:

http://www.usmchangout.com/famous_marines_from_a_z.htm

Source: http://vroosh.com/search/where-web/famous-marines.html

Don Knotts: http://www.nndb.com/people/750/000022684/


:thumbup: :evilgrin:

Sgt Leprechaun
01-22-07, 12:07 PM
Actually, the site is wrong about Jack Webb. He did serve in the Army, and was in officer training to be a pilot during WWII; washed out of pilot training, served as a clerk in California in the...

booksbenji
01-22-07, 01:56 PM
:evilgrin:

http://www.nndb.com/people/941/000043812/

:yes:

crate78
01-22-07, 02:20 PM
Did anyone else see on TV spot recently when Robert Lehrer told of when he arrived at Quantico for OCS?

He said when they arrived, all of the candidates were in ranks with the Drill Instructor calling muster. When the DI came to Lehrer, he botched the name up something horrible.

Not being totally acclimated, Lehrer said he replied, "Sir, my name is pronounced 'Lair-er'". He said there ensued dead silence except for the "Click,- Click,- Click" of the Drill Instructor's heels as he proceeded down the ranks. The DI stopped in front of Lehrer, did a smart left face, and said, as only a DI can, "Candidate, if I say your name is Little Bo Peep, your name is Little Bo Peep! Do you understand?!"

That was Lehrer's indoctrination into OCS.

crate

yellowwing
01-22-07, 03:00 PM
...Don Knotts served in the army, as an entertainer, during WWII.
Geez- I can see it now,
Spec 5: "AMMO!"
Don Knotts: "Here you go Smitty. Didja hear the one about the Rabbi and the showgirl..."
:banana:

drumcorpssnare
01-22-07, 03:18 PM
yellowwing- If Don Knotts was in the Army, and somebody called for ammo...
wouldn't he reach into his "Barney Fife" shirt pocket and pull out his 'one bullet'? Remember that? Sherrif Taylor couldn't trust him with a loaded pistol! LOL
drumcorpssnare:usmc:

booksbenji
01-22-07, 03:25 PM
:yes: :banana:

http://www.nndb.com/people/750/000022684/