Tiger 33

Tnx, Grit !!

I read your story this week about the club waitresses at 11th Marines while you were in Da Nang, and you mentioned the Da Son ville…Funny, because 11th Marine Regt took over the CP from 12th Marines when we all departed Da Nang to move up north to the DMZ areas in the summer of '66…I had been a Corporal with 3rd Marine Regt – Comm back then, and our CP was just down the road, after you made the left at "3 Corners" on the back way out to Red Beach…When we re-deployed up to Artillery Plateau (re-named Camp Carroll later that year on the Marine Corps birthday) there was an Army infantry unit that had moved into our CP, but when I went back again in '69, 11th MT Bn was there… read more

Sniping Us

Sgt. Grit,

In answer to Kenneth Coffey's message in this week's edition of your news publication, regarding the 19 Japanese soldiers that were found on Guam in 1951, in the process of being returned to Japan.

I was also on Guam in the later part of 1950, and evidently in the same Guard Detachment as Sgt. Coffey, prior to my assignment in Korea, and in fact, was sent out on several patrols in attempt to locate these holdouts. We knew they were there, as we had found caves with evidence of the survivors, and suspected them to be sniping us, on various guard positions throughout the island. I have attached an article posted in the Guam News from Sept. of 1951. This article was given to me in later years from another personal friend (1st Sgt. Richard Wilhelm) who was my Top Sergeant during that period of duty. I read in the Stars and Stripes, while in Korea ('51), that they had found these 5 known survivors, but felt there were more. And as Sgt. Coffey has indicated, there were several more. read more

Last Known Picture

In respones, to last known picture.VMA 332.THIS PICTURE OF PLANES aboard  USS Point Cruz CVE 119 1953. I snap this Picture when planes inline on deck in Harbor of Hong Komg.China. Not long after squardon was disband and personal were sent to K- bases in Korea. I nyself was sent K-6 to VMA 21 2, This  turn out to be the last Corsair squardon in Korea. We then went to AD's. I hope info can get response from old squadron member 332 & 212  if still around? read more

“The Greatest Marine I Ever Knew”

I want to tell you of a great marine. His name is Gunnery Sergeant Jerald J. boullion. He was a crew chief on a "Sea Stallion". He recieved two medals for service above and beyond the call of duty. His first came when he had all of the CH-53's in the Marine Corps grounded, when, after losing one of his 'copters in the Indian Ocean, he found a weak shear-pin in the main prop shaft. His love for his country and the Marine Corps still sounds true today, every time I speak to him. His three trips to Vietnam, and multiple deployments throughout the U.S. and abroad teaching and instructing other Marines about the mighty CH-53 "Sea Stallion" are just a few of his many great accomplishments. I should know. He's my dad. read more

More on the infamous bucket

As a member of platoon 3013 in Janruary 1970, one of the most amzing uses of the bucket I witnessed was by the "motivational" platoon. We were in the quanset huts by the back fence line to the airport and had a sand area next to us. One day we were going out to PT and the motivational platoon was building a sand pile and moving it from one side to the other. The pile and recruits were gone when we got back in an hour. read more