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Gentle Souls:

My congratulations to Zulu 36. The latter obviously has done his homework and actually consulted a reference that others of us on this board may read and profit thereby in our...

Gentle Souls:

Sometime in 1962, if memory serves, General Shoup, then CMC, asked a group of officers attending a briefing in re items that were on the JCS agenda for that day if they knew of any...

For All:
When a report of the My Lai Massacre first appeared in the press there were many people, including myself, who didn't believe it. Then vets who were there during these brutal killings...

For All:

I learned this evening that a very old friend, going back to North China in 1946, died yesterday. This was Col John B. Sweeney, USMC (Ret.) This Marine joined the 1st Battalion, 5th...

Sgt Leprechaun:
Finally found a picture of "Bogey." He was in 2dLt Jack Nolan's Platoon in E/2/5. Bogey is in the left lower Marine, and with his rather spectacular proboscis, a thing of might and...

As mentioned in this article, the Iwo Statue at Route #1 and Fuller Avenue at Quantico was dedicated with lots of HooFaraah in 1952. I recall that day well since as the Marine Corps Schools...

You may be interested in knowing that then Colonel David Monroe Shoup, the CO of the 8th Marines on Tarawa, was awarded the Navy Cross for that action.

Subsequently, after WW II ended, a review...

Sgt Leprechaun:

The process of "now you is" and "now you ain't" is a difficult one to follow. Since my own background prior to being commissioned led to a number of staff NCOs in particular...

Since the end of World War II the surface Navy seems to have had an increasingly diminishing role in the projection of U. S. power ashore. Certainly the submarine service, and the aircraft carriers...

The bonds formed by those who have shared a combat experience are unique and cannot be explained to those who have not had such an experience....
The following article addresses that phenomena.

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For All:

The news and TV seems to be full of celebration recalling the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock. There is nary a mention of another anniversary which means a great deal to many of us. My...

[QUOTE=Sgt Leprechaun;321692]Enlisted rank insignia 1946-1959


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Rank description - "Private" has no rank insignia
1. Private...

In 1995 the Marine Corps published the pamphlet From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders In The Pacific War. Although most professional Marines knew that the sad story of the Makin Raid did...

Following is a letter received Wednesday, August 5, from U.S. Senator Jim Webb. Many of you know that Senator Webb is a genuine MC hero, and was retired physically as a result of wounds. I have...

Congratulations, Captain!!! You've attained the best rank in the Corps, and after you've commanded your Infantry Company, it will be all down hill until the day when you are chosen for Battalion...

I was commissioned a Regular, Unrestricted 2d Lt with DOR 4June48. This followed 10 other recommendations for commissioned rank. I entered the MC in 1944, and had spent all but 5 months of my time...

Relayed From "Seamus."

From Al Cavallo comes this notice, that anyone who wore a Capt Scott Speicher, and would like them buried with the Captain's remains, must act quickly.

WE LEAVE NO ONE...

RIPLEY AT THE BRIDGE:

DONG HA, SOUTH VIETNAM



2 APRIL 1972

The following eulogy was forwarded to me by "Seamus." I realize that to many of you on this board that the Viet Nam Conflict happened before you were born. Many heroic acts were performed by Army...

For the Record: Part of my training as a new officer was that if we were in a situation, maybe sitting at a desk, and a Soldier reported with the traditional right hand salute, that we should return...

The pronunciation of "Lejeune" (which in French means The Young) for many years set the "salts" apart from the late comers. During WW II when thousands of young Marines went through Phases I and II...

When this thread was first posted I wanted to reply much as Alisium (above) did. Not until now have I found another post from a blogger name Robert Hall that zeros in on my feelings about the man...

For: All Hands, & The Ship's Cook:

The following SitRep is from from Michael Yon, a former Army Captain and good guy embedded with our troops in Afghanistan. It was forwarded to me by "Seamus." ...

Probably should leave this alone....but to have others accept it and believe its true presents a false image of who we are as Marines. We have left our dead behind, never willingly and never without...

Probably should leave this alone....but to have others accept it and believe its true presents a false image of who we are as Marines. We have left our dead behind, never willingly and never without...