thedrifter
05-11-06, 06:23 PM
MARINE CORPS AIR-GROUND COMBAT TRAINING CENTER, TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (May 11, 2006) -- After enduring some of the best pre-deployment desert training
the Marine Corps has to offer, the Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine
Regiment tasted some of the best cooking Marines had to offer here
May 3.
The Marines, who trudged in from the desert just a day earlier,
were rewarded with a barbecue dinner with all the fixings for training
well done.
The battalion’s senior enlisted took care of most of the cooking.
“It shows the battalion that we care about them,” said Gunnery
Sgt. Aaron C. Scarborough, a radio chief with 3rd Battalion , 2nd
Marines from Buchanan, Tenn.
Steaks grilled with pineapples, hamburgers and hot dogs were
some of the delicacies cooked up for the service members who will
deploy to Iraq later this year.
One Sailor spent hours serving sizzling steaks to the salivating
servicemembers.
He said he was teaching by example.
“It’s important that we practice service to others,” said Petty
Officer 1st Class Shannon A. Paul, senior corpsman for Headquarters
and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines from Kingsland, Ga.
“If we treat the junior enlisted below us, they will take care of the
junior enlisted below them.”
Paul couldn’t have been more right.
Service members everywhere were asking others if they had
enough to eat.
Most Marines just nodded because they were tearing into tender
slices of barbecued beef.
Sticky fingers and barbecue sauce stained faces proved the dinner
was a success.
“It (brought) us all together to just eat and have fun,” said Pfc.
Sean Masanova, a 19-year-old infantryman with Company I, 3rd
Battalion, 2nd Marines from Sicklerville, N.J.
Paul couldn’t have agreed more.
As the line of servicemembers decreased and the charcoal calmed
to a slow burn, Paul peered into the distance and said, “It’s just good
to get us all together.”
Ellie
the Marine Corps has to offer, the Marines of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine
Regiment tasted some of the best cooking Marines had to offer here
May 3.
The Marines, who trudged in from the desert just a day earlier,
were rewarded with a barbecue dinner with all the fixings for training
well done.
The battalion’s senior enlisted took care of most of the cooking.
“It shows the battalion that we care about them,” said Gunnery
Sgt. Aaron C. Scarborough, a radio chief with 3rd Battalion , 2nd
Marines from Buchanan, Tenn.
Steaks grilled with pineapples, hamburgers and hot dogs were
some of the delicacies cooked up for the service members who will
deploy to Iraq later this year.
One Sailor spent hours serving sizzling steaks to the salivating
servicemembers.
He said he was teaching by example.
“It’s important that we practice service to others,” said Petty
Officer 1st Class Shannon A. Paul, senior corpsman for Headquarters
and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines from Kingsland, Ga.
“If we treat the junior enlisted below us, they will take care of the
junior enlisted below them.”
Paul couldn’t have been more right.
Service members everywhere were asking others if they had
enough to eat.
Most Marines just nodded because they were tearing into tender
slices of barbecued beef.
Sticky fingers and barbecue sauce stained faces proved the dinner
was a success.
“It (brought) us all together to just eat and have fun,” said Pfc.
Sean Masanova, a 19-year-old infantryman with Company I, 3rd
Battalion, 2nd Marines from Sicklerville, N.J.
Paul couldn’t have agreed more.
As the line of servicemembers decreased and the charcoal calmed
to a slow burn, Paul peered into the distance and said, “It’s just good
to get us all together.”
Ellie