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A special Thanks to Max Felser of the 1st Marine Division Association Bodfish Chapter! He has sent our Showroom Director/Reunions Coordinator a few gifts on behalf of the Bodfish Chapter and himself.
He sent hand selected, single barrel Jack Daniels Whiskey, a DVD copy of the 1st Marine Division Association Reunion this year in Portland, OR (in which she also attended) and a signed picture of Tim Matheson from Warner Bros. Studios.
Was in Iraq and I was patroling Baghdad and heard that an Army Ranger was hit. I went to the location and it was my little brother. I carried him on my back to base refusing any help. He died in my arms…
Sgt Grit,
I found these goodies while rummaging through some boxes stuffed away in a closet. Don't know if you can use them in any of your newsletters. The first is a Dining In MAG-39 put on on 15Jun79 and the next is a dinner menu from the 203rd Marine Birthday 10Nov78. I haven't seen anything on Dining In's in any othe newsletters, is this a thing of the past? Keep on with the great newsletter and great products. Semper Fi!
What is up my devil dog brothers!!!! WAR is hell and dont let another civillian tell u otherwise….
L/Cpl 1927106 Gwiazdon JD Was with C-1-11 in Oct 62 All of a sudden was transfered over to B-1-11 105s . To bring them up to strength . Did the regular things , shot card , will , personnel effects to storage etc. No one knew where we were going. B Battery was part of the BLT team. Assign to Gun # 4 . Was the ammo truck driver with C Batt , gun goon with B Batt. Damm It !! Any way took or guns and Prime movers up to El Toro. Then we sat on the runway for a few days , slept there too. And then one night a Delta airline plane landed and a Lt.Col was showing him where to park. Started thinking the could be for real. Next thing on the plane and away we go, still no poop. Lots of guessing. Knew we were heading southeast but to where ?? Come morning pilot on intercomm , we will be landing at GITMO Hoped you enjoyed your flight with us. Oh OH !! Got the scoop then. Waited till all our guns and truck arrived , then headed out to our position, took awhile to get there , was darker then you know what. Ocean to our left hills behind us., road in front. Dug in and there we sat . Boy did we dig deep, The all we did was fill sandbags and improve our position. LP out front back side everywhere. Just got the M 60 MG so we got to Fam fire those and the M 14 we had not had for very long. No one had fired them before. Consensus was 60/40 to get out M 1s back. No battle sights etc. Then we were given grenades , Oh boy what next. . Got to say the squids were really happy to see us. And they help us with what ever we needed. Silly boys , we might have taken a bit of and advantage of them , go figure. Listen to Cuban radio every day all day. Castro " send us your 10,000 Marines and we will send you 10,000 dogtags " Mmmmmm. Next we heard JFK . We were ready as we could be and willing. Guess ya know the rest. Come Dec. the CO said he wanted to put and end to the scuttlebutt CSMO ( close station march order ) Yahoo. Came back on the LPH Iwo Jima with a 2 day stop in Panama. Thats another story from PFC Gwiazdon. Was worth it. Docked at SanDiego Bussed back to Camp Pendelton And could ya belive it the civilians in Oceanside were glad to see us. Talked to the 1st shirt and he let me go back to C Batt. and my ammo truck. Yahoo !!~ Plus our CO Capt. Petterson gave me my L/Cpl stripes back. Semper Fi
I served with G Company, 2Bn. 5th. Marines out of An Hoa from Jan. to Sept. 1970. Actually, we spent most of the time in the brush. But I do recall a few happy hours at the E.M. Club—just not many. I'm wondering if there are any other Marines out there that I might have served with during this time? I have lost all my pictures of the A.O. we served in. Sure would like to see some if anyone has any.
I guess I'm now designated as Old Corps!!! I always thought of the Old Breed 1st. Mar Div from WW-2. Being now 56, I really hate to admit it, but I'm now offically an Old Fart ! That's what I would have thought (back in the day), and I'm sure things haven't changed.
I did not know any of the Marines of F-2-5 personally in Korea during 1951 but served with them. As a section leader of heavy machine guns with W-2-5 from Jan. 51 through Jan. 52 my guns were assigned to Dog, Easy or Fox company during our many combat actions against communist forces. We were all young, filled with patriotism and comradeship with a common goal.
looking for anyone from patoon 117 at marine corp san diego requit depot.
my name john r. ortiz l/cpl served 1967-73 radio man 2531 was communications chief for 3 ops (observtion posts) 3 fingers thumb and north in the summer of 1969 i came in from the op to see a uso show in 1st. tank bn. hq base. suddenly i look up and i am staring into a mashroom cloud, the base had an mmo dump behind it that started exploding bombs rockets and all sort of ammo. if any bro marines were there would like to see and talk to them because a few of s stayed back on base while the bn. evacuated thank you bros for reading these few words now and for always marine corps
