Just a note of remembrance to all my Marine friends. I joined the corps just after my 18th B-day. My B-day is March 21st 1951, i joined March 25th 1969. By Sept "69" I was with the 3rd Bn. 7th Mar. in Viet Nam. On March 20th "70" the day before my 19th B-day I was wounded in a land mine explosion outside LZ Baldy. I stayed in the Corps until Dec. 1978.
Category: Marine Corps Stories
I Am A Soldier
I am a soldier
I am a fighter
I am a son
I am a glider
I am full of anger
I am full of fear
Though my time was called
Please don't shed a tear
For I have fought my battle
Though I have lost
But I have done my best
And this is the cost
To my country
Though I did fall
To my family
I love you all
I have done my best
To stay alive
The rules of engagement
I did abide
Till I come home
Please show your support
For I am a soldier
And this is my report…
The Lonely Soldier
When a heart is broken
What does it feel
Is it like a rollercoaster
The turning of the wheel
When a heart is broken
Does it even cry
Like the rain fallen from heaven
Of the dark cloudy sky
When a heart is broken
Does it feel blue
Like the depths of the ocean
With the water pure and true
When a heart is broken
Does it feel alone
Like a soldier on the field
With all of his brothers gone
When a heart is broken
Does it feel like this
I'm just a lonely soldier
In a country that has just one wish…
01/27/2003 Parris Island
My name is William Bonnat, I was in Parris Island on 01/27/2003 assigned to 3rd Bat. Kilo Co. Plt 3032. SDI: SSgt Brian Forgety . Im looking for any Marines that were with me there.
Im looking forward to getting in touch.
Info on the 5th Amphibious Recon in WWII
I am looking for any information about the 5th Amphibious Recon that served on Guadalcanal in WWII. My Dad, DJ Culley, Cpl., Fb,2nd BN,11th MAR, passed and had a 5th Unit Patch in his possesion. I'm awaiting his DD214 for possible info, but would like to hear from anyone that has more. It's unknown if he was detached to the 5th or if he obtained the patch from a buddy. All info is greatly appreciated. JB Culley
Lost Radio Call sign book – L/Cpl Broadstone 2311333
I was trying to think when I recovered this book – a small pocket size book with the follow in the first page:
L/Cpl Broadstone – 2311333 – 3/26 Mike Co., 3rd Platoon, 5190 – Radio man.
I think I recovered this when I was picking up comm equipment at the casualty point at the hospital in east DaNang. it is in still great shape and if anyone knows him or served with him, I think he would love getting this back and I will for sure get it back to him.
Twin Brother
SGT. GRIT GREETING
I am from CORPUS CHRISTI,TEXAS My twin brother & I joined the
CORPS together soon the 120 day delay BUDDY program & left for
boot camp ONE DAY after graduation on JUNE 6th 1967.
AFTER BOOT-CAMP & ITR. We both got orders for O.C.S. (over the
choppy seas ) VIET-NAM. ha I went to SNIPER SCHOOL & my twin
WENT to RECON.I volunteered to go to NAM first, and my brother
would go when & if I got back. I convinced him the best thing
for him was to try and get out of the Corps get back home to
take CARE OF OUR mother who was IN NEED of SURGERY. she COULD NO
LONGER work, did not know how to DRIVE, did not know a word of
ENGLISH. She was a PRISONER in her own house. My brother
REYNALDO finally got out on DECEMBER 1967.
Father and son – Platoon 2006
I joined the Marine Corps because of my father, Walt Chingo. He is a Marine, and I saw the pride he had in being a Marine, and I decided I wanted to share that pride with him. My father was a Grunt in Force Troops Fleet Marine Force from 1968 – 1970, and served in Vietnam 1969 – 1970. I was a Heavy Equipment Operator in the reserves, 6th Engineer Support Battalion from 1999 – 2005, and served two tours in Iraq – the initial push in 2003 and then again 2004 – 2005.
But the greatest thing in this Father-Son Marine Corps story is the fact that we graduated from the same platoon in boot camp. My father graduated from platoon 2066 in 1968 and I graduated from platoon 2066 in 1999. What are the odds in a father and son graduating from the exact same platoon 31 years apart?
A higher power certainly saw fit to fate us to being a part of something special together in a very special way, and for that I am eternally grateful.
Semper Fi,
Travis Chingo
Comm Co. 7th Brn 3rd Mar Div FMF at Camp Hansen
Sgt Grit,
Photo's here were taken from Comm. Co. 7th Comm. Btn. 3rd Mar. Div. FMF while at Camp Hansen, Okinawa in the summer of 1974….Came across them looking through old photo's and thought some of my brothers may want them.
Semper Fi…
Cpl D.E. Peterson
Chesty Puller
My Brothers & Sisters,
There is a facebook page occupied by a group of low life scum.
Their group comment is Chesty Puller can lick their balls.
Do we tell this man wanna be & his pals off?
Or do we ignore him & his community college pals letting them fade into obscurity?
I think this is a recruiter reject or boot camp wash out, & losers hang together.
This idiot & his group of 19 members include someone who claims to be a U. S. Marine.
I think one & all are posers & losers.
If all I knew of Chesty was that he was a Marine general with FIVE
(COUNT' EM 5) Navy Crosses that is enough to warranty respect.
My dad is a Viet vet Amtracker; I was signed to go & had epilepsy seizures before my due date.
However, my heart & soul stand with generations of my family (& probably yours too) along with my dad & all of you on yellow footprints.