I served with 3/4 in Nam in '65-'66. For a long time I have wanted to create a leather carving of our Eagle, Globe, and Anchor. I began this project in early September of this year.
Thank You,
Vann, M.L. Sgt.
S/F
Marine Corps Ball 1967
My first and only Marine Corps Ball was in Malta, during a 1967 Mediterranean Sea Cruise aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt CVA 42. Due to the FDR being almost 1000 Ft. long we had to anchor out at every port of call. At one point we were anchored out in Malta, and a big storm came up causing the FDR to depart, stranding the lucky people on liberty. I was one of the two Marines on liberty that day, myself and Sgt. David McAnall. It was like a vacation, we stayed in a hotel for five days while the ship was gone. We were lucky to meet an American girl whose father was an oil worker in North Africa. She had two friends that were Maltese. I still have the cuff links one of them gave me, I don't remember his name. The other one was a beautiful young school teacher named Sally Moreno. She was 23, I was 20 at the time. The Maltese people are Italian by ancestry, so they speak Italian, and English. Malta was a former British Colony.
Battle Jacket
Here is the khaki version worn by a Marine instructor standing inspection at Pre-Flight School, NAS Pensacola in 1952.
Spike Berner
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Sergeant of Marines
D/1/2
Thought I'd try and submit a pic of D/1/2, 1960 vintage. My dad (Charles E. Carter Sr.) was the company 1st. Sgt. The CO was Capt. Modjeski. Maybe some old timer out there will see the picture and remember my dad. My family had just spent 2 years in Gitmo and was then transferred to Lejeune where dad was assigned to D/1/2.
Skull Back Tattoo
13 years later, but I finally got it.
Boot Camp Sea Stories-Believe it or don’t
I've read so many sea stories about bootcamp that I have to share a few now and then.
When I enlisted in about the mid-seventies, out of six-seven other high-school buddy enlistees, only one other brave, misguided soul and myself boarded the bus to Will Rogers airport, (via AFEES in downtown OKC), eventually landing about 10:30 p.m. in San Diego, then on to receiving at MCRD.
HM3 David Swartz
Remember Gysgt Quinten Cole. My friend and brother in the Lord. Dedicated follower of God and righteousness. Hero to the men that knew him. KIA in the Regan rescue mission. He will allways be my best example of a Marine. Loved and missed. God bless his family.
HM3 David Swartz
Remember Gysgt Quinten Cole. My friend and brother in the Lord. Dedicated follower of God and righteousness. Hero to the men that knew him. KIA in the Regan rescue mission. He will allways be my best example of a Marine. Loved and missed. God bless his family.
Old Corps
No doubt, some of you Gyrenes have heard this before, but I was telling an old '03 buddy about this website, and we agreed, among other things, about Marines' definitions and traditions of "Old Corps."
When we were active-duty years ago, we were informed that "Old Corps" only applied to someone who had enlisted at least the day before you did!
3rd Generation Marine
This is his first tattoo… he designed it… a warrior shield with EGA… a feather for each generation… II Timothy 2:3-4…