A man was conducting an All Service member briefing one day, and he posed the question: “What would you do if you found a scorpion in your tent?”
A Sailor said, “I’d step on it.”
A Soldier said, “I’d hit it with my boot.”
Category: Marine Corps Stories
This Is My Desk
I thought this cartoon might appeal to your readers 🙂 I am a cartoonist living in Maine who went through USMC OCS in 1980. My website www.thundersausages.com will be up in July with lots of cartoons. Your catalog is great – keep up the good work and thanks!
Father Of A Marine Serving In Africa
I was given this old (very heavy) concrete Emblem that was in very poor condition. We cleaned it up and repainted so that can again serve as a symbol of honor for our Marines!
Jeffrey Moore
New Sgt Grit Bulldog Coin
I maybe a bit thick and slow, it comes with age. That is why the new coin with a Bulldog and has Devil Dog in German, this I got, and has 1529 on a belt buckle. My lack of enlightenment is lost, what is meant by the 1529, help.
Bob Corazza
Second Wife of GYSGT/E7 Asa B. Zumalt Jr
Being the second wife of GYSGT/G7 Asa B. Zumalt Jr. This man was a very very proud service man. He had 20 years and 12 years reserve in the Marine Corp. He passed away March 2012. He has a grandson serving in the Marines and his plans is for a career. I also have a second cousin in the Marines and lost both legs in Afganistan. He has never stopped since he got his new legs.
My Son On July 4th 2012
This picture is of my son on July 4th, 2012. His father Sgt Chance Chambers was deployed to Bahrain.
Ashley Chambers
Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel 5
A brand new book about the Vietnam era LVTP5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel 5) hits the ground:
The first and only illustrated book about the LVTP5 (Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel 5) and its variants. Over 60 photographs never published before about the construction and building of the LVTP5, by the St. Louis Car Company Records. Rare B&W photographs from the LVTP5 in combat during the Vietnam War. Also some breathtaking, revised color photographs. All from private collections, provided by Vietnam amtrackers. Brief written history about the LVTP5 and its variants and detailed captions for every photograph. Over 40 funny, crazy, horrible and grim testimonials by amtrackers and a foreword by retired USMC Captain David Sconyers.
Rifle Qual Range Score Book
I’m just wondering if any of my brothers out there still have their U S Marine Corps rifle range score book. Here’s what it looked like in 1948. Didn’t do too bad at 300 yards but still ended up as just a Marksman. That’s probably why they sent me to an Air Wing (2MAW).
Straight Scoop
Reading the 25 May newsletter, I came across some information regarding rifle and pistol qualification that needs to be clarified to some extent. I have qualified with the three service rifles that the Marine Corps had up to 1988: They were the M-1 Grand, M-14, and the M-16. From the fifties and well into the eighties, the course of fire for qualification for recruits never changed.
I Learned In The Marine Corps
L to R, Holland, Meadows (RIP), Adcock and Kennedy singing “Folsom Prison Blues” on board LPH8, USS Valley Forge (RIP), Jan. ’68. Holland had received that scotch in the mail and we were feeling pretty darn good.