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In August 1966 we were with the advance party HMM-165 sent to Ky
Ha, Vietnam; the rest of the squadron came over on a carrier
with the aircraft and equipment.
Our flight crews flew with HMM-364 for combat familiarization.
HMM-364 were flying the Dogs, UH-34D. Our first wounded was hit
in the gluteus maximus making a perfect clean shot through one
side. The aircraft dropped him a "B" Med. before landing at the
fuel pits.
I took these photos at an Antique Mall in Ogalalla, NE. They
wanted $95 for the photo which is more than I wanted to spend.
It is dated June 1951. More than likely many of these Marines
went to Korea. Maybe someone can identify someone or themselves
in the photos.
Sgt. Grit:
To the best of my knowledge, in June of 1951 the Corps started
to take draftees. When I was in Pendleton, Tent Camp Two, 2nd
Trng Bn during the Spring of 1952, Company Clerk of L Co., I had
to list two of them as AWOL one Monday morning. Shortly after
making the morning report the First Sgt opened his newspaper and
saw a headline "Two Marines Shot by Passing Car". His remark to
the Captain was "there's where our Sh-t Birds are".
After taking my Grandson Vinny to visit a number of Civil War
battlefield sites this past summer here in the MD, VA area, he
asked me if we could visit the grave site of Chesty Puller, whom
he had heard me speak of a number of times. Vinny thought we'd
just take a short trip down the road to Arlington National
Cemetery to visit Chesty's grave site but I told him that Chesty
wasn't buried there, but instead just outside the town where he
retired in Saluda, Virginia in the Christ Church Parish
Cemetery, Christ Church, VA, right on Route 33, named the
General Puller Highway.
My brother's company built the frigate named after Lewis B.
Puller. I was a Marine in 1957 so he sent me this picture. I
thought you guys would be interested in seeing it.
Bob R.
Semper Fi.
Dear Sgt. Grit,
Re: combination locks. At MCRD San Diego (June-Aug 1968) we had two combination locks… one small for our footlocker and one large for our rifle. The rifle was attached to the racks (bunk bed style) through a hole in the rack with a bicycle lock. We were living in Quonset huts at the time.
Greetings,
As promised I have enclosed some photos from a lifetime ago.
In my boot camp graduation photo you see SSgt J.M. Scarboro (he is the ugly one that I mentioned yesterday during our conversation), second from the right. I am in the first row, forth from the right, right over his left shoulder.
Sgt. Grit,
Thought I'd pass this along to brag about our rifle squad from the Marine Corps League "Sgt.Maj. Linehan" Detachment # 1034. We do the honors for most of the Veterans funerals in our area, which includes the folding of the flag, Taps, & the rifle salute.
Sgt Grit:
Several issues of the newsletter have mentioned swagger
sticks. I've enclosed a few shots of the kind that vendors
would come aboard the ships and sell while hitting the ports
in the Med while deployed for a Med Cruise. This one
indicates the ship, USS Rockbridge, APA 228. Note the
scrolls denote the ports hit on that cruise and the islands
for amphibious exercises and landings. A great reminder of
that cruise. Maybe others that have them can send photos.
While in BOOT CAMP In about Feb-March of 1966, we had a young boot from Chicago join us from the brig. He had been in boot camp for over one year, kept going over the hill and going back to Chicago where the MP's would just pick him up and ship him back cross country by chaser to San Diego where he would do a couple months in the stockcade and recycle him in with a new boot platoon. The day he joind ours, D.I. SSgt Richard Jones yelled at him, "Pvt Schultz are you going to give me any trouble ?" Schultz said loudly, "NO SIR, I'LL BE GONE BY MORNING!"
