Sgt. Grit, just wanted to send you this picture from our recent reunion. We have not seen each other for over 42 years. It was a great time and was happy that we had the chance to get back together! I want to thank you for making it very memorable by donating "Sgt. Grit's Marine Stuff" to our reunion. Your generosity is truly appreciated. I handed out a bunch of catalogs and hopefully you will get more Marines ordering from you. Everything that you donated found a place with one of our Marines or our wives. Again THANK YOU for helping us out. It was the Marines from Quonset Point, Rhode Island. The stories came in bunches and brought back a lot of great memories. I am the second from the left, Bob Longabardi. OOH RAH! and SEMPER FI!!
Category: Marine Corps Stories
A picture for you
Sgt. Grit, just wanted to send you this picture from our recent reunion. We have not seen each other for over 42 years. It was a great time and was happy that we had the chance to get back together! I want to thank you for making it very memorable by donating "Sgt. Grit's Marine Stuff" to our reunion. Your generosity is truly appreciated. I handed out a bunch of catalogs and hopefully you will get more Marines ordering from you. Everything that you donated found a place with one of our Marines or our wives. Again THANK YOU for helping us out. It was the Marines from Quonset Point, Rhode Island. The stories came in bunches and brought back a lot of great memories. I am the second from the left, Bob Longabardi. OOH RAH! and SEMPER FI!!
Platoon 150 Reunion in New Orleans
This is a picture of a reunion held last month in New Orleans. All the Marines were in Platoon 150 MCRDPI in 1962.
One of the Marines was found with the help of Sgt. Grit.
Thank You
Charlie battery 1/12 Reunion
July 31, 2010 was my 3rd Charlie Battery 1/12 Renuion. I like to thank every body that was there, was a great get2gether. Some Marines I haven't seen since 1979. We are Gunny Cusack Raiders of Charlie Battery. And Our Gunny Cusack was there, thank you guys for flying in. I'd like to thank you for the Donation of the items and magazines.
Platoon 145 Bootcamp reunion
Dear Sgt Grit
We want to thank you and your staff for your donations to our boot camp reunion held in Colorado Springs, co. last year and Fairmont, WV this year.
We began having our reunion in 1996 when we located all four Drill Instructors, and our PMI and 59 recruits. We have since lost our Senior Drill Instructor and 13 recruits but we continue to get together somewhere in the USA each year. We still refer to each other as “private”.
Sgt Grit Welcomes Delta Co. 1st Bn 26th Marines!
The staff at Sgt Grit had the pleasure of hosting some outstanding Marines for their reunion. There was great food, plenty of camaraderie and laughter all around. We heard former DI's calling cadence and commands, we heard great stories of their days in Vietnam and there was also some old fashioned ribbing between friends.
11th Marine Regiment Reunion
The old marines landed at San Diego on Sept 17th,18th and 19th for a 3rd Battalion, 11th Marines reunion. It started on thursday night with a get together and reaquaintance period for those of us that hadn't seen each other in 40 plus years. Most of the vets were from the Viet Nam era, with two old timers from Korea. Friday was a special treat, a large group of us boarded a bus and went to MCRD for the recruit graduation. What an impressive sight to see 566 recruits become new marines. Oh did they stand tall and have very wide smiles when the ceremony was over. I was able to chat with a few of them about their feelings of being marines. Everyone of them couldn't quit grinning and expressing a gratitude that boot camp was over. All of the command staff present, Lt. Colonel, Sgt Major down were in fantastic shape and left a positive impression that the Corp is in better shape than when we were in. We were honored to have Cpl. Steiner for our guide around the base. Ladies and gentlemen our corp is still in very good hands and will continue to do so with the fine young men and women enlisting today. We were even allowed PX and store privileges, yes, it cost us all a lot of money. I noticed some very large bags being carried out of the store with various goodies, shirts and jackets seemed the most popular. After 6 hours we went back to the hotel with lighter wallets. The memories will stay forever and my wife even commented on what a great experience it was to see these young men in all their glory, marching tall and proud on the old parade deck.
Halls of Montezuma GTG, Branson, Missouri
I take great pride introducing to Sgt Grit and his staff, the group picture of the members that attended the 2nd Annual Get-to-gether of the Halls of Montezuma in Branson, Missouri the first week of September 2010.
Thank you Kristy Fromin for the wonderful gifts that were donated as all the members present really appreciated them.
Reunion Pictures
Sgt Grit-
Not sure what exactly you are looking for, but we are a small group of MP’s that kept in touch over the years…
– MCAS New River Military Policemen who served between 1989 and 1994, many of whom deployed with MWSS-272 in during Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Iron Mike
Hey Sgt. Grit I just returned from my Mike Co. Reunion. I wanted to thank you for the items you donated for our Reunion. A great time was had by All. Our Members are getting older average age is hitting around mid to high 60. Our Guset speaker was "Iron Mike" Mervosh, Sgt Major USMC (Ret). If you have heard of him you know that he is a three War Veteran, [ wwll, korea, Vietnam} Now in his eighties, he was at one time The Most Senior Enlisted Man, of all the Services. When he retired in 1977.