Harrier Going Up
“Several years ago, I located your web-site conducting a search for Marine Corps awards and plaques and have been hooked since. I truly enjoy your E-mail newsletters and often forward them to deployed Marines overseas or afloat so that they can enjoy them also. I have visited your OKC store several times and I want to thank you for your Marine Specialties store, and your staff for doing a superb job in customer service. I have also enclosed a photo of myself and Arnold Schwarzenegger during the 1994 filming of James Cameron’s “True Lies”. I thought you might enjoy hanging this on your “Hallway” near the front entrance of your store. Just to fill you in-I am not a Marine Harrier pilot, but in fact a Grunt and only filled in for a Harrier pilot from VMA 223 and ended up getting the spot in the movie. I was stationed at the Inspector-Instructor Staff in Miami, Florida at the time of the filming(At (TOW) Company, 8th Tank Battalion-now AT(TOW) and Scout Platoon, 8th Tank Bn) training Reserve Anti-Tank Marines and just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”
GySgt Scott Dotson
Hello,
I was searching the web and found your site. I am happy to see such an OUTSTANDING effort. I read a story by a Gunny in Florida about the movie TRUE LIES. Well, I am the Harrier Pilot that he stood in for as a double. I have some other details but maybe this will help with a little of what happened with one Marine on the True Lies set.
Semper Fi
Shawn