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In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial.
War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it.
Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican Republic and was wounded there, Vietnam was my war.
The bringers of death saviors of life they are few but known worldwide. They are proud to do what must be done at any cost. You might know them as jar heads or the worlds 9-11. Our enemies know them as devil dogs. They sacrifice their lives doing what they believe is right. In places they do not know in places so far from home. To protect or freedoms to defend our rights they will willingly give their lives. They are not known by their age sex or race. They are not hero’s or show off’s they do not have a death wish. They do what they were trained to do without a fuss. That’s why they are and always will be called MARINES.
The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters in WWII
Sgt.Grit,
The first C rations I had(at P.I.) were boxed the same year I was born 1943.
Needless to say the smokes were a little stale but didn't stop us from using
them. In Div.someone came up with the idea of making pizza out of the white
bread sliced about a 1/4 in thick with cheese spread on it along with other
leftover's and the good ole Tabasco on top. You added enough water to the
can to just cover the bread and set it on the fire until the water was
cooked out.It tasted pretty darn good when you are out in the bush.We all
had a bottle of the Tabasco we “checked out” from the Mess Hall.
G Niemann 60-64
MARJAH, Afghanistan — Like tomb raiders, the Marines unearth the deadly treasures of those who no longer rule Helmand province. Scouring dry creek beds and abandoned compounds, they collect caches of AK-47s, Soviet era grenades and homemade explosives buried by the insurgents.
Throughout military history, animals have gone to war alongside humans. Millions of horses, mules and donkeys died in World War I, as they carried the soldiers and artillery ammunition to the battle fields of Europe. “There was a great love and loyalty between the soldiers and the animals they worked with,” said registrar Toni M. Kiser, who created the exhibit “Loyal Force: Animals at War” at the National World War II Museum. During World War II, nearly 3,000 horses, provided by the Army Quartermaster Corps, enabled the shore patrol to cover more ground. “The U.S. Coast Guard used more horses than any other branch of the U.S. Military during WWII.” Most supplies and a great deal of artillery were still horse-drawn, and a mounted infantry squadron patrolled about six miles in front of every German infantry division. “These mounted patrol troops were referred to as the ‘eyes and ears of their units.’”
Akron's Marines will begin to arrive home Friday after several months at war in Afghanistan.
Their arrival couldn't make a local prayer group happier.
''That is wonderful they are coming home,'' said Marylee Cromley, a member of a prayer group from the Akron Baptist Temple. The group made tiny prayer squares, sent care packages and prayed for about 100 Marine reservists from the Weapons Company since the Marines left Ohio last spring.
The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) will soon be entering it's 10th year and our troops have served on multiple combat deployments. The stresses of combat and high operational tempo have strained our military and their families to no end. We have seen and heard the stories of these heroes as many have returned home with horrific physical injuries, but a tremendous psychological toll is also being paid. Even though several new Department of Defense and Veterans Administration initiatives have attempted to de-stigmatize and address all aspects of mental health, suicide rates are alarmingly high across all services and within our transitioned GWOT veteran population. There is more we can do to help these veterans deal with the baggage of combat and get back to some resemblance of their normal lives.
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I've been looking for him since July of 2010 and I have yet to hear from him. I need to know if anyone's known someone by the name of Matt(hew) Westpy. He should be a 1st Sgt and he told me he's in the 1st Marine Division, 13th Mechanized Infantry. I'd never heard of it and older marines I'd talked to hadn't heard of it either. Can anyone help me?