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Sgt Grit,
Recent comments regarding mess halls and food brought back related memories.
My first day as a "Junior PLC" officer candidate at old Camp Upshur aboard MCB Quantico, in July of '63, we have just exited the vehicle (a cattle car) and are in formation in front the messhall. In charge, is a very tall, very stern, very loud gunnery sergeant (our platoon staff has not taken over, yet).
I want to personally thank Sgt Grit and Misty in customer service for rushing the shorts because they are custom order and getting them to me before the March of Dimes, March for Babies walk. They were worn proudly as you can see by my daughter and wife. Semper Fi!!!
Grit,
I have attached a photo that I have of the first Women Marines taking their oath. At the time, they were designated "Marinettes".
On the back of the picture is their names and the Captains name performing the ceremony typed in red ink. Dated 1919. Are there any readers that has ever seen this particular picture? It was placed in the sunlight and I copied with my camera.
One day we were in the chow line and a recuit came up to one of of our drill instructors and shouted out "Sir, Private Navy requests to speak to the drill instructor Sir." The drill instuctor shouted at him, "Private who?" The recuit "Sir, Private NAVY, Sir. Then the drill instructor asked him for his full name and the rercuit replied, Sir, Ulysses Samuel Grant, Sir. The drill instructor hollowed US NAVY, whats the matter did your old man hate you. We all got a good laugh out of that one,
2 times I went to the root. what a deal cause I was in the same platoon as cpl chuck. I remember him well. as I was a sniper in the sta plt HandS Co.
For 20 Years I was not able to tell anyone that I was a former Marine, due the embarrasement of The Beirut incident. Why did Reagan pull us out?
Thinking of C 1/5 circa 1989…
I can still recite the names and ssn's after all these years.
I must have repeated the kia's 10 times each over BN Net.
Mike Kelley Sgt. 88-96
B 1/5 and HQ5MAR and 5th Recon Co and finally 2nd SRIG
YES SGT. Wackerly..
We had T-Bones in the Corps. Here are 4 pics from 1968 "B" Brty 2nd LAAMS Chu Lai. I can be plainly seen cooking T-Bones on my Field Grill…88 men in the Brty, 54 steaks per box…….the leftover, unfrozen steaks went….. maybe back into the Black Market? maybe for the ice cream I served.
Grit,
I save everything, including all the t-shirts from every National Veterans Wheelchair Games since 1997. I wasn't sure what to do with them and when the LA Veterans Quilt Project came to my VA last year I asked Karen Van Den Brink if she could possibly make a quilt from my old shirts. She said absolutely and handed the project over to Linda Leibon who did and 'AMAZING' job!!! She had it for over a year and just presented it to me Tuesday 3/20/12. Something I will treasure forever and money can definitively not buy. I cannot thank the ladies enough!
