Old Corps—Old Navy

” I did 30 years in the Corps,” the Marine declared proudly, “and fought in three of my country's wars. Fresh out of boot camp, I hit the beach at Okinawa, clawed my way up the blood-soaked sand, and eventually took out an entire enemy machine gun nest with a single grenade. As a sergeant, I fought in Korea with General McArthur. We pushed the enemy inch by inch all the way to the Chinese border,always under a barrage of artillery and small arms fire. Finally as a gunnery sergeant, I did three consecutive combat tours in Vietnam. We humped through the mud and elephant grass for 14 hours a day, plagued by rain and mosquitoes, ducking sniper fire by day and mortar fire all night. In a Firefight, we'd fire until our arms ached and our weapons were empty, then we charged the enemy with bayonets.” read more

Back Alley Revisited

Thanks for the refresher course on Back Alley. What a great card game! It seems that Back Alley was the game of the Viet Nam Era for Marines. We played it whenever we could when I was in.(69-72). As I recall you could play with 2,3,or 4. You started off by setting up your score sheet, numbering down from 13 to 1 & 1 to 13. It was a game of luck,skill & finese. It was hard to teach to a novice so without  some players with a little knowledge of the game, it was easy to lose your edge and rememberence of the rules of the game. My Father was a Marine S.B.D. & Corsair pilot on Guadalcanal and the rest of the P.T.O. (8/42-7/45) followed by China Occupation in 46. When he was sailing across the Pacific in 42 he watched them play cribbage.(He learned nothing by watching!). On his 2nd trip over he jumped in and learned the game. Cribbage seemed to be the card game of Sailors & Marines during WW II. He taught my Mother and me how to play and growing up we would play on one of the Otterman's in the living room while watching TV. That is another great card game! It is a good way for families to bond and communicate. An art that we seem to have sadly lost. Thanks again for the refresher course. It brought back a lot of good memories with a lot of good Friends.               Semper Fi,    Gene Leslie, Sgt., U.S.M.C.(Ret.) read more

In Rememberance of the victims of the Oklahoma City Bombing, April 19th 1995.

Amongst those who were lost in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing on April 19th, 1995, were two Marines: Capt. Randolph A. Guzman and Sgt. Benjamin L. Davis. They both worked at the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting office located on the 6th floor of the building.  Please take the time to remember those lost in this tragic event. read more

tribute to my father korean war vet semper fi !!!

this is my tribute to my father joseph “MAZ” mazerik a sgt in the usmc ll during the korean war who passed away on mothers day allmost 1 year ago ,, thanks dad for protecting us and i will see you and chesty someday , semper fi your son and retired us marine paul ssgt , usmc retired read more