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This is what a Sgt Grit customer looks like… POW bracelet, watch, t-shirt, cover and a cane. Outstanding Marine! The pictured Marine is Marine Vietnam Veteran Gary Pogue, Sgt. '72-'78, Motor T.
Semper Fi!
Kristy
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I had to chuckle when I read Gunny Rouseau's comments about going back to Vietnam… I spent several tours in-country, as well as a tour with TF Delta in Nam Phong, Thailand at the tail end of the war… I've been back to Vietnam almost a dozen times over the past 7 years or so, landing the first time at Noi Bai Airport on the north side of the Red River outside of Hanoi… The Gunny mentioned BaNa and 1st Recon Bn, so I'm wondering if he may remember a friend of mine who was a platoon/patrol leader with 1st Force Recon Company back about that same time — Ric Miller… Ric was a mustang and a former Vietnamese interpreter on his first tour.
Here goes…
I was commissioned thru the Regular NROTC program at the U. of Minnesota in 1963 and, of course, joined the Marines. (I decided to be a Marine when I was 8 years old.) I was the SupO for the 2d Radio Bn, then served 2 "wonderful" years of sea duty aboard the USS Wright, CC-2 (C.O. of the Marine Detachment). Then my wife "convinced" me to leave the regulars, and so I went right into the active reserves (Supply Management Officer for the 4th Marine Division; and finally as a Major, Company Commander, India Co, 3d Bn., 24th Marines. (Never went to Vietnam – 2 sets of orders to WestPac (Viet Nam); both cancelled.) I had an NSG top secret clearance, and the Navy NSG did not want to risk Marine junior officers getting captured… which did happen in 1965 …bummer). And LBJ would not call up the Reserve 4th Marine Division. (15 years).
This picture came from a barber shop in Garmisch, Germany. Go figure, we are everywhere!
Andrew Karim
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I couldn’t find a proper Native American Marine Corps tattoo so I designed my own. Mandella surrounding the Marine Corps Emblem with Warrior feathers
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Fifty years ago this month (March, '65) I was stationed with 8TH.Comm.Bn.at Camp Lejuene N.C. If I remember correctly, every Wed. afternoon was a sports day. We were playing football on the grass field next to the Battalion barracks. There was this one Marine playing defense who was running backwards faster than guys running forward. Someone said who is that guy? Turns out he was Erich Barnes, all pro safety for the New York Giants. He was a 30 day reservist. Instead of one weekend a month and two weeks in the summer, you did one month active duty a year. I think Tug McGraw and Larry Bernarth, pitchers for the N.Y. Mets were there at the same time. Great memories!
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The town of Chibana was the first town outside the gate at Hauge. It was only a few bars surrounded by rice patties. Anyone serving in the 4th Battalion 12th in the time period of the late 50's and mid 60's should reconize the Marine on the far left.
I'm a little late on this story but I just wanted to put my two cents in about K Bars. If memory sets me right I got mine graduation day Oct-31-1966 platoon 2207 MCRDSD for making thru boot camp as a House Mouse (a whole other story). As a house mouse we saw and endured a lot of other things from our beloved DI's that the regular boots did not.
