Author: SgtGrit

Getting Desperate

I've made this appeal before but now, my health is failing (I'm 71) and name it and I've been there hunting for my grad book from PI.  Jul 7, 1961 to Sep/Oct 1961, Plt #339 of 336 series; HDI–S/Sgt Rushing, A/DI's Sgts Fox, Phillips, Long.  We are a three generation family and I'm trying to get what my Son (SD 1995 Plt #1050) destroyed.  Heck, I don't even have a pic of me when I was in the Corps.  I even have gone through about 300,000 plus photos of Togetherweserved.com photos with the other half to go.  Would really appreciate help.  Series. CO was 1st LT. Silvers. read more

44 Years After Hitting The Yellow Footprints

October 2015 is my anniversary of entering the Corps in 1971. 44 yrs. in the waiting. Finally at 62yrs old I said if I don’t do it now it probably won’t happen. Last duty station 3rd Mar. Div. HQ Bn. HQ Co. Comm. Plt. 2nd LAAM Bn. MCAS, Yuma, Az. Artist is Gus, formally from the 82nd Airborne, Aces and Eight Tattoo, Augusta, GA. Semper Fi my brothers! read more

191st Marine Corps Birthday

I came across a photo taken on the 191st Marine Corps Birthday, November 10, 1966 at the 1st Marine Regiment HQ compound about 10 miles southwest of DaNang. It has Col. Radics, front left and Lt Gen Nickerson, front right. I am on rear left and Cpl Rodriguez is in rear right. We were both assigned to S-2. I am also enclosing the menu. read more

Semper Fidelis Marines

Happy Birthday to all of you Marines out there. Especially our former Corpsman, and more Marine than Most… Doc Erasmos Riojas a beloved "Doc" in Korea and now Navy SEAL ret'd, also to the Members of the 49th Marines (all those living above the 49th Parallel). This video is available for your viewing pleasure men. Enjoy and Semper Fidelis Marines… Hand Salute to ALL of our veterans and allied veterans… read more

A Walk Through Memory Lane

Here's a short walk through memory lane for those of us that were at MCAF Marble Mountain on 28 October 1965… Ron Jennings and George DeChant were both wounded in the Ready Room (Operations?) Tent by a Sapper. Our Corpsman (actor Tab Hunter's brother) was blown up in the MedEvac bird and a few more squadron mates were killed or wounded. I have a sh-t pot full of colored slides with better shots of the whole scene including dead Charlies stacked in trucks with some missing their faces. They patched Jennings up in Japan (Yokuska) with humorous tale about his "adventures" in the Ville… Last photo was leftover Charlie grenades. read more

The Emblem

Thank you for your interest in my emblem. I have always been gung ho for The Corps with clothes, covers, flags and all. I know that I am Marine all the way. My wife and I went on vacation and a friend was going to redo my sunroom floor. Well he got together with my wife about my service and decided to do this to surprise me. Wonderful surprise. It's not painted. He used colored cement and did a beautiful job. I was in Vietnam in '66/'67 and received two Purple Hearts, and on good days I get things done and on bad days I am 100% disabled. I thank God that I am in as good a shape as I am. God, Country, Corps! With PTSD I really put my wife thru h-ll but she loves me and saw me thru it for 46 years. God could not have given me a better wife. It took 40 years to get the VA to accept a claim and then they only went back to my last claim submission. Forget about the last 40 years of pain and Drs. and confusion. But as I said, God gave me my wife who has kept me up and going. Thru it all we have adapted and overcame. Semper Fi. read more