Though it’s been thirty + years that I retired as a Marine I found my Platoon 3331 year book, secondly it’s been fifty years come September that I as you and counts of thousands after us arrived to challenge our body, mind and spirit and to having it broken down so that we could be taught courage, poise, self-confidence and pride of belonging to the worlds finest by earning the title Marine that no one can take from us. These words written at the side entrance to the Receiving Barracks do represent our fighting spirit as a Team and Our Marine Brotherhood.
Semper Fidelis
RamTwo
Marines everywhere are just standing by,waiting to muster. Semper Fi RamTwo.
Hey Ram Two, I was also in Platoon 3331. The chief drill instructor was S/Sgt Kealoha and the other drill instructors were S/Sgt Henning and S/Sgt Baker. I ended up a grunt and during BIS I was pulled out and sent to Recon School. Spent two tours in RVN, bot out for a couple of years and reenlisted and this time spent a career with the Marines, medically retiring in 1991 after participating in Desert Storm.
S/F
Joe Cook
M/Sgt USMC (retired)
Joe, did you serve with “A” Company 3rd Recon in Hawaii from 75-78. If it’s you we served withSgt Royal, Sgt Norod and SSgt Shimalunss (sorry for spelling) ang SSgt Victory…
Were you the NCOIC at the United States Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia 1981-1982?
Every day a holiday
Every meal a feast
Every paycheck a fortune
Every formation a family reunion
Every duty station a challenge
Every deployment an adventure
The US Marine Corps: Just one good deal after another!
Stoney, haven’t seen that ditty for quite a few years. Thanks for the memories. Semper Fi!!!
WELL SAID STONEY.
I was in platoon 2002 in 1957 i am still aa marine at age 81 PFC larry foulk sr
I was in Plt.273 at San
Diego July 1957, still a U.S. Marine!
I read the sign and got chills over my body I guess why our motto is once a Marine always a Marine ooh Rah.
You missed the ride in a cattle car from the airport to MCRD. You haven’t lived.