Category: Proud to be a Marine

Great Reminder

Sgt Grit:

Several issues of the newsletter have mentioned swagger
sticks. I've enclosed a few shots of the kind that vendors
would come aboard the ships and sell while hitting the ports
in the Med while deployed for a Med Cruise. This one
indicates the ship, USS Rockbridge, APA 228. Note the
scrolls denote the ports hit on that cruise and the islands
for amphibious exercises and landings. A great reminder of
that cruise. Maybe others that have them can send photos. read more

Yet another strange MOS

I thought CID and weatherman were strange. Now I sit next to a jarhead that was in during the late 60's. We are both on kidney dialysis (Agent Orange), I asked him what he did when in the Corps. He was a language specialist, I asked him what language, thinking Vietnamese. I worked with one of them back when they set up camps at Pendleton for the thousands they brought back at the end of the war. read more

Gone by morning

While in BOOT CAMP In about Feb-March of 1966, we had a young boot from Chicago join us from the brig. He had been in boot camp for over one year, kept going over the hill and going back to Chicago where the MP's would just pick him up and ship him back cross country by chaser to San Diego where he would do a couple months in the stockcade and recycle him in with a new boot platoon. The day he joind ours, D.I. SSgt Richard Jones yelled at him, "Pvt Schultz are you going to give me any trouble ?"  Schultz said loudly, "NO SIR, I'LL BE GONE BY MORNING!"   read more