Category: Other USMC

Retired Marine in Uniform

Geez, it still fits.

Gunny Trent
Oceanside, OR

Greetings from Don Richie

Christmas and New Years Wishes to Sgt Grit

Pulitzer winning photograph

Sgt Grit,

I’m so thankful, I thought I would send you a photo taken of me greeting my wife at a local airport. The photographer won a pulitzer prize for the photo in 1966, when I arrived home on a leave from Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. read more

Post Boot Camp photo

(1943) Just got out of boot camp. After that it was Roinamur, Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima with the 4th Division.

Marine Corps Wedding

A few pictures from our wedding. You can check out more of our wedding pictures on line at www.pictage.com . Just enter my name (PANGALOS) and click “Go” then click on the “Pangalos/Beaver Wedding June 11, 2005” to view some great USMC wedding pictures. I was in my Dress Blues, we had a full sword detail, a Marine & Bride cake topper on the wedding cake, an 18 passenger stretch HUMVEE and a motorcycle escort provided by The Leathernecks Motorcycle Club read more

Gavin’s Cast – Marine Pride

Boat in shipyard in Amelia.

These pictures were sent to me by a buddy of mine. We served together 32 years ago. They were taken around Morgan City, La.

A Visit To The US

I wanted to share a very important picture with you of my 16 year old niece from England who has such admiration for United States Marines, that while on a recent visit with us, I took her to the base exchange at the USMC Reserve Station in Kansas City, Missouri, a wonderful Marine posed with her for this picture. Being a teenager, this made her trip to the United States a Dream Come True. I know she is sharing this picture with all her friends in England, and I wanted to share it with you because this is only a small instance of how proud I am to be married to a Retired Marine and know that all Marines deserve all the respect in the world for being such wonderful men and women 7 days a week, 24-hrs a day. read more

After Securing…

Recently, a Marine kissed his wife and kids good bye and left for Iraq combat duty. I can recall when we first met after much of of the paper work, hard numbers were fixed for the hotel rooms and finally the bus to transport his marines was all secured. read more

Beach Pictures…

Sgt Grit,
I’ll be leaving GTMO in a couple of weeks but won’t be back home until mid November. Thought you might like a photo of your stickers. Unfortunately I have to leave them behind as it’s a government vehicle. Oh, gotta leave the Babe too. She’s a married Army Sgt and her Sgt husband was kind enough to let me borrow her to spruce up the photo. You may post and pixie out the beers if you have to. Thanks for your support. Still waiting on two small orders from your store.
GySgt Faz read more