This is a half sleeve done by 3 Lions Tattoo in Las Vegas, NV. Inside the Arm you find my Tank Plt emblem which is a Ka-bar, a sabot round and M1A1 Abrams. Also the POW/MIA. The American flag in the back ground. The battle cross on the out side and the 2nd Mar Div insignia in the front.
Author: SgtGrit
Camo Stratocaster
My customized Squire Stratocaster:
Hand painted Marine Corps Digital Woodland camouflage (MARPAT) on
the pickguard, rank insignia and Eagle, Globe, and Anchor from Sgt.
Grits… black pickups and knobs, painted the selector switch olive
drab… ready to rock, or defend the base! Semper Fi!
RIP Capt. Shaft S. Hunter
I got the EGA for my love of my career in the Corps. Added Capt Shaft Hunter to it when he passed on May 21, 2011. He was a Capt in the Corps and a Maryland State Trooper. He is the father of 6 wonderful children.
Making the Gunny Angry
On the day I was promoted to Corporal, it was a surprise. I didn't see it coming. It started pouring outside just as that mornings formation was ending and the Gunny marched us accross the street for classes that the training schedule had called for. Like always, we rushed to get there and had to wait for the instructor and classes to begin. Our Marines were making quite a racket as Marines might, and when the gunny walked in the back of the room and hollered "Knock off the horseplay", but hardly anybody but the NCO's standing in the back had heard him. After yelling "Knock off the horseplay" a second time and the racket in the room did not quiet down I rushed forward to the podium and yelled "Hey, you with the horse, knock it off" which caused all the NCO's to be heard snickering in the silence. The Gunny's look at me was deadly so I tried real hard not to look at him as I retreated to the back of the room. He never let me forget, and took every public opportunity he could to remind me that my first order as an NCO was "Hey, you with the horse, knock it off".
Devil pups
Are you aware that there are two types of devil pups? Those that are military brats that have graduated from Lejeune High School, home of the devil pups. And then theres the children of Marines, so being both I was wondering if you were aware of the two. We take pride in our school name as well as of our status as a devil pup. We are few and far between but we are still here.
After Boot Camp Tat
Pain is weakness leaving the body
1982-84 Marine
Started originally in Huntsville, AL, Oct ’82… added to it through the years.
Eagle Globe and Anchor in Full Color
SSGT Phillips EGA USMC ’91-’98
Christmas Eve An Hoa VietNam 1968
I had been in An Hoa since Sept., I was with 1st Dental Co. We had old French buildings for our clinic and quarters. The local Vietnamies wall builders had just finished a real nice sand bag wall behind our building that protected us and seperated us from two large gas bags and one large LZ. Christmas eve around 10 or 11 pm flares of all sizes started to light up the night, there were so many it was almost like day time. I was standing on top of the wall taping on my recorder the events as the happend. It was a site to see. My luck, no snipers were out, he would not have had a hard time seeing me. Next day, I was told the Gen. had a fit , some 5,000 lbs worth of flares went up in smoke, not to mention how easy a target we made of our selves. It was said that heads rolled. Also I could have gotten killed by the flare casing falling all around me… what a night.
Marine Corps Hymn
When I was at P I. Third Bat. 1960, there was a D.I. in our series who called cadence to the Marine Corps hymn. I believe his name was Sgt Baizer. Not real sure of the spelling of his name, but you talk about an eerie scene at dusk on the grinder.
R.Y. Winne Cpl.