Here's a Marine standing guard, next to a brick wall that had been hit by some sort of explosion, in what appears to be a dress blue uniform. The year was 1911 in Peking, China.
LeRoy A. Townsend
RVN '66-'67
2nd Bn, 3rd Marines
Author: SgtGrit
Awesome Eagle Globe and Anchor
Waited a long time for this one, the result was worth the wait! You will not see another one like it… (pic was taken the day after the tattoo was done).
Traditions
My name is Rosa Rosales, im submitting a picture of my son Joshua Rosales age 4. Every year for Memorial day we go to The Memorial Day ceremony. We teach our kids what memorial day is really about. I was not in the service, but my husband was Sgt. Juan J. Rosales USMC. He's a huge fan of Sgt.Grits & also Customer.
My EGA
A full year after my EAS I finally got my EGA. It accompanies the clover on my back I got at Camp Lejeune and the flowers on my rib I got at Camp Pendleton.
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Everly Bros
The Everly brothers were in C battery 11th Marines. 16 area at Camp Pendelton. Quite the buzz when they showed up. Both were already PFC out of boot. Go figure. Anyway there were a few of their band members in with them. Never stayed at the barracks, went to Marty Valley Inn every nite.I was L/Cpl at the time an they were assigned to the Motor Pool with the rest of us drivers. OK guys. Their Mom and Dad showed up one day for a PR thing and oh boy was there ever a band on your typical Marine salty language. Plus every high ranking officer was around that day. Never a great thing. We all watched them on the Ed Sullivan Show and yes we gave them grief about that a Marines are, won't to do. They were doing a lot of PR stuff for the Corps so were not around all the time. But all and all good guys. And Marines.
USMC Wife
I got this tattoo after my husband a Marine saved my life. I was coughing up massive amounts of blood I couldn’t breath much less talk. We knew my lung was hemorrhaging and he knew exactly what to do! I’m alive today thanks to a Marine!
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Joining The Marines
This is me at age 2, 1968, and me at 23, 1989. I never thought of joining the Marines until 1983 when I signed early for delayed entry. I left for Boot Camp on the Island two days after graduating from High School. Best 8 yrs. of my life!
C. L. Still
1984-1991
Because He Was A Marine
In the Jan. 8, Sgt. Grit, Gunny Rousseau's letter concerning leggings prompted me to submit this old photo. The photo is of my Uncle Henry Billert, as a young Marine at Quantico from 1935, wearing his greens and leggings. Talk about one squared away Marine! I wasn't born when the photo was taken. The only time I ever met him he was already out of the Corps, having served around 8 years. He traveled from Rockford, IL to Boston to visit his sister (my Mother) back in the fifties. I was around 12 or 13 at the time. I always looked up to him because he was a Marine, the same as John Wayne, Randolph Scott and others, who portrayed hard charging Marines on the big screen. What kid back then at that age did not eat up all those movies about WWII?