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An interesting article from MarineCorpsTimes.com. What do you think about the new limit?
MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Va. — The Marine Corps will soon reduce the top-end service limit for sergeants from 13 to 10 years, putting the squeeze on Marines who don’t make the cut for promotion to staff sergeant.
Marine Sid Phillips reflects on fellow 1st Marine Division member “Manila” John Basilone and his Medal of Honor ceremony in Melbourne, Australia.
Watch the video below and get your copy of his book You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers the Pacific War from Grunt.com.
Chesty Bio Video
One of many great stories from this week's Sgt Grit Newsletter…
In 1964 we were in Okinawa. Living in tents at the time there. I got a call to get a fire team and to go to the NCO club to clean it up. Well the Gunny was pretty please with the work we had done he asked if there was anything he could do for us. I replied we hadn't had any fresh eggs in a very long time and it would be great to have some instead of eggs from a can LOL. So the Gunny called down to the tent city mess hall and told them he was sending C.G. Morgan and his men down and to take care of him and his crew. When we arrived there cooks lined up with fresh eggs real plates and they were in dress uniforms instead of kahkies because they had mistaken the gunny thinking that I was a General because of the C.G. in my name. They had thought I was a Commanding General. I don't remember the Gunny's name but thanks Gunny.
Learn all about American History through a Custom Painted 2011 Chevy Camaro Z28. Painted by Mickey at Mountain Muscle Cars of Cosby, Tennessee.
From the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf War I and II and Afghanastan, it is all on this SS Camaro. And don't forget Arlington National Cemetary.
TIFTON — Some memories never fade.
J.D. Lindsey fought in the World War II battle of Okinawa 66 years ago, yet the memories are as fresh as if he had just left the field of battle. Lindsey shares some memories with a chuckle and a gleam in his eye, while others are difficult to put to words.
An interesting story about the insight Admiral Nimitz had into the “Mistakes” the Japanese made when they bombed Pearl Harbor.
Tour boats ferry people out to the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii every thirty minutes. We just missed a ferry and had to wait thirty minutes. I went into a small gift shop to kill time. In the gift shop, I purchased a small book entitled, “Reflections on Pearl Harbor” by Admiral Chester Nimitz.
Sunday, December 7th, 1941–Admiral Chester Nimitz was attending a concert in Washington D.C. He was paged and told there was a phone call for him. When he answered the phone, it was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the phone. He told Admiral Nimitz that he (Nimitz) would now be the Commander of the Pacific Fleet. Admiral Nimitz flew to Hawaii to assume command of the Pacific Fleet. He landed at Pearl Harbor on Christmas Eve, 1941. There was such a spirit of despair, dejection and defeat–you would have thought the Japanese had already won the war.
Semper Fidelis!
Example of adapt, improvise, and overcome!
