Doc & Gunny Just Laughed !!!

In the 1980s my platoon from 1st. CEB had been sent to the Army jungle survival school in Panama for 30 days. I as the company Doc had my hands full with cuts, scrapes, and rashes.

One day the Co. Gunny and I were heading up the the barracks stairs to our 2nd floor home. All of a sudden a large bodybuilding Marine came running down the stairs with his hand covering his forhead. Blood was all over his face, and running into his eyes, he was a mess! read more

Cake Cutting

Howdy Sgt Grit   Been some time since I dropped you a line but I'm not much of a  writer. First off I want to thank you for the good service on  order delivery's fast and in good shape'   Next, The weekly newsletter is great, I know all the Marines out  there await it each week. I try to make mine last a week, don't  always make it.   The first two photos are of the first cake cutting ceremony at  our VFW post, only five this year, will be better next year. The  cake cutters are our corpsman and me, I'm the chubby one. The  cake was made by a friend of mine and she did a beautiful job,  it is all edible including the center emblem. Nobody wanted to  break it so the post put it on a hard surface to save it.    The next two photos are  me and my brand new Grit helmet, love  it. It attracts notice and comments. Well done guys.   The last photo is me at a much younger time in life, Thought   maybe someone might remember me.   House mice, in 1951 in Sasebo JP we lived in Quonsets and we all  had a house boy or as we called the house mouse, do not know  where the term started but guess it goes back aways…   Back in 51 we had AFR, armed forces radio and these guys were  always thinking stuff up, some of the funniest were the Salushi  samurai( the Lone Ranger) and fishnet(Dragnet) These were really  funny and I'm hoping someone has a copy I can get. Enough BS for  this time, yall have a great XMass and NY and stay safe.   Dave (mavric) Erickson  The old Gunny  Semper-Fi