On the cover of your spring catalog is one (at that time Sgt.) R.S. Sutis. He was one of 4 DI’s I had at MCRD PI Platoon 1001 graduation February 1965. Senior DI was SSgt.A.L. Jachimowicz, Sgt. B.W. Davis was fresh out of DI school, he joined our other DI’s several weeks into our training. We were his first Platoon. Of course they told us we were such screw-ups he was sent there to kick ass and take names. Cpl. York who is not shown in any of our official platoon pictures, but does appear several times in pictures of our training in my platoon 1001 book, was with us from the start. I reported to Parris Island on 10 November 64. Some birthday party… I did make PFC as a squad leader and qualified expert with my M-14, went on to the Air Wing as a helicopter electrician with VMO-1 at New River Air Facilities and then the air station at area 22 Camp Pendleton where I left the active life in the Corp and went home to South Florida and went to college.
Met my wife of 39 years in Jacksonville, NC while she was a senior in Jacksonville High School.
I have some great memories of the Corps and lost a cousin and some friends to Viet Nam.
Semper Fi…Once a Marine Always a Marine.
Ronald P. Petrey Cpl. 1964-1968 2114142 (MOS6615)