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Great t-shirt, Thank you Sgt GRIT!
The attached images show Marine Wounded Warrior Lead Clinician Jimmy Craig (Cpl. USMC-R) as he instructs umpires from the Marine Wounded Warrior Battalion-East at the Palm Beach Challenge. Marine Appreciation Day sponsored by The Semper Fi Fund and Sgt. Grit. Six Sergeants – Boles, Rogers, Dean, Bletcher, Simmonds, Mauro. These Marines will become instructor qualified and will help us reach full Marine implementation and direction.
Dominic. I haven't found the picture of you yet, but I'll keep looking. I think you had just come back from a hospital tour, you looked like a a white sheet. Any way If I remember you went to Btn. supply. I came to see you and ask if I wanted a phantom. I said what would I do with one? There was some back and forth and you claimed you had it all figured out. So we came up with small refer. So one day a PC pulls up and ask if Sgt. Kishpaugh is around. Yep I said and the driver dumped off a crate with a small refer in it. I willed it the PLT. when I left.
My father in-law passed away 10 April 2015. He was a good honest man who was always there when you needed him. He was proud of many things; his family, building his house and a few other things that came with the years. But most of all he was proud to be a United States Marine. I will miss him.
I am 4th from the left in the front row. Anyone out there from this platoon?
Richard Kirby
This May 19th, will be 50 years that our platoon, #119, of the 116 series, graduated boot camp. We were honor platoon of the series. We took the General's trophy, at the rifle range and we won drill comp. (the bronze boots are in the graduation picture). I haven't seen anything on a 50 year reunion, for our platoon, so, I plan on being at Parris Island, for the 50 year anniversary of the graduation of Plt #119. If anyone else plans to attend, I'll see you there. In the picture, I'm 5th from the left, on the top row.
I've had a copy of this message for a while and was wondering if this is a true story. You may have seen it already. Pretty spectacular if true.
S/F,
Alex Dimitrew
Before I get to the gist of my tale, I would like to say that, prior to 9-11, I was never thanked for my service. Since then, quite often. Usually by other veterans. Not always, but usually. If it's a veteran, I return the salutation. If not, I just say thank you and you're welcome.
I served with VMFA-314 from Nov. '67 to Dec. '68 in Chu Lai. In a past posting, I had mentioned Operation Military Embrace, and the Watermelon Run For The Fallen in Hempstead, TX, where I had reunited with some of my Vietnam brothers last August. This time, I'm sending some pictures of my father, Harry W. Kiehnle, who enlisted in 1922. He was a seagoing Marine and a bugler, who was stationed on the Battleship Utah for the Friendship tour of South America that sent General John J. Pershing to meet with South American heads of state, as he was still highly respected after having served as General of the Armies in WW I.
Dear Sgt Grit,
Jordan xxxxx died two years ago. I'm his oldest son. I'm ten years old. I have a younger brother and an older sister. So, I really like your magazines.
Sincerely,
Carter
P.S. Please send more magazines.
By the way, I like your magazines because my dad was a Marine. I want to be a Marine too.
The other day I was talking with a friend from our church at the lab where we get our blood test done and he asked me why I wear so many t shirt with Marines on them ( I get them all from Sgt Grit). He spent two years in the Army. I said because Once a Marine, Always I Marine. He just laughed. He didn't get it. I went to Parris Island in June 1960 with a platoon of all South Jersey guys, sponored by the Camden Courier-Post newspaper. Platoon 358. I spent three years at Camp Lejeune and one year at Newport Naval Base in R.I. I am proud to be called a Marine and my last duty station will be Guarding the Streets of Heaven like in our song.
