Category: Other USMC

Marine Wedding

Dear Sgt Grit:

Few occasions are as memorable and festive as a wedding, especially one where the 300 guests and the entire region were evacuated in the path of last year?s Hurricane Gustav just 5 days earlier. We all returned home to find no power, no food, other than canned, and no personnel including venue caretakers, bakers, florists and hotels employees. In addition, we had lost four days of valuable preparation time. At one point, we had people in the air, flying from four different states and no place to board them. Miraculously, all the pieces feel back into place just in time and people were calling it the miracle wedding. If you had seen it all in a movie, you would never have believed it. read more

We call it 5 Marines

PFC Rachel K. Fredericks on Graduation day 10/18/08
Also, from the left
Aunt – Sgt Billie Jo Fredericks
Cousin – Sgt Rob Fredericks (active)
Uncle – SSgt Bill Payne
Uncle – Cpl Steve Fredericks

R. Lee Ermey

Hi Sgt. Grit,

I went to a recent “Shot Show” in Orlando, Florida and guess who I saw standing in the front of the “Glock Booth” ? R. Lee Ermey a.k.a Gunny Hartman. Who can ever forget him from the movie Full Metal Jacket as a hard core DI. His voice is very distinct, sometimes I hear it in my sleep. Few of my personal favorites that he delivered in that movie……”Until you leave my island, you are nothing but a worthless human being”…..”You give your soul to Jesus but you ass belong to the Corps”. He also has a cool intro on his website. What a thrill it was seeing him, I took a picture with him and had a Full Metal Jacket DVD signed by him. Check out the picture, still as lean and still a Marine ! read more

Marine Detachment

A few years back (1979) I was stationed on the 6th Fleet Flag Ship USS Albany CG 10 out of Gaeta Italy. I was just a young Boot then. New to the Detachment and the Corp. My first night out to sea Approx 2200 hours I heard someone yell section fight and the entire birthing compartment erupted into a massive brawl!. About 10 minutes into the section fight someone called attention on deck! The XO of the ship was pulling birthing inspections to insure the compartments were cleaned and all trash had been dumped. read more

Chili Cook-Off Group Photo

Central Illinois Leathernecks Annual Chili cook off in Springfield, Illinois 3/7/9

Marine’s obituaries

Are, self explanatory items of three Marines.

Weil was in A-1-1.
Gordon also, in A-1-1
And
McHugh was in A-1-5.
All gave some !!!!!
SOME gave ALL !!!!!!!!

These three were compiled by Sgt. Robert Handley, who was in the Reserve with all three Marines in Pittsburgh. His relatives kept the newspaper articles and he has kept them all this time and forwarded by one of his daughters. Sgt. Handley was in C-1-1 while in Korea, wounded twice in one night before he had to leave his position. read more

3rd Generation Marine

I was a third generation Marine. My Grandfather in WWI , my Dad in WWII Cpl (1943-1947) and me SSgt (1968-1978)
I have no info where my Grandfather served.
Dad served in the South Pacific (43-45) 3rd MarDiv Saipan and Guam and Tenstin, China (45-47) A/1/11 1st MarDiv.
I served in Vietnam A/1/11 1st MarDiv (69-70)?An Hoa and just south of Hill55, where you were at Sgt Grit. read more

T48 57 mm

Enclosed is a picture of 1 of 6 vehicles I restored in USMC. The one pictured is a version of the T48 with a licensed 57 m/m A.T. gun. The day we shoot this will be a 1st since WWII in the U.S.

Thanks,
Jack