Fahrenheit 9/11 Review

Fahrenheit 9/11 Review

Hello guys and girls. I had the unpleasant opportunity to view the new movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” by Michael Moore last night. I have never been so offended in my life, he makes us Marines feel like we are over here fighting watching our friends and other troops die for no cause. Vote for Bush.
Semper Fidelis,
Corporal Howard II, W.M. (I am on the left in the pic) read more

Ambushed Vehicles From The Sand Box

Ambushed Vehicles From The Sand Box

THE below PHOTOS in WORDS……..

Hey man, just got hit today. I’ll paint the picture for you. Three vehicles, Lead vehicle (soft vehicle and the one I was in), Hard vehicle (clients plus two DEH), and Trail vehicle (also a soft vehicle). We were driving back to base and came up on an overpass. Saw two white trucks stopped above our lane with about 6-8 people around it. First thing they did was RPG the hard vehicle (which hit the windshield and didn’t blow. They started hitting us with frags and AK fire. We opened up on the and before the first vehicle cleared the bridge we confirmed 4 kills. When we cleared the bridge, they ran to the other side and started shooting from the rear. Shawn (our rear gunner with the M240) opened up on the group of shooters. A BMW with 4 armed guys tried to side swipe the hard vehicle. The lead vehicles rear shooter also with a M240 shot the BMW until it blew up. The hard vehicle’s engine locked up and the trail vehicle started pushing it and my vehicle fell to the rear. We drove until the hard vehicle started burning and we pulled over and secured the area and did a vehicle transfer. We dropped 2 grenades in the armored vehicle and left it. We created about 2 miles of hot led along the highway….shot EVERY vehicle that we passed. read more

T-Shirts to Fallujah

Dear Patricia and members of Sgt Grits, Inc.
We received the shirts you sent to us here in Fallujah and would just like to say thank you very much. My teammates and I really appreciate your generosity and support. The shirts are definitely coming in handy. Our team provides security for VIP's and convoys. We operate out of Fallujah, but work from Baghdad to the Syrian border. We have about twenty members in our team comprised of active and reserve Marines. Most of our team is originally from California and Chicago, but we also have members from AZ, WA, NJ, and LA. The weather is getting hotter out here. It is in the 100's everyday. Our team gets pretty busy. The activity has decreased a little here; it's a little less dangerous than it was our first two months here. Our team has several members that have received Purple Hearts, but the wounds were minor and everyone is doing fine. We really appreciate the thoughtfulness and support we are receiving from everyone back home and just wanted to take the time to say thank you for supporting us. Attached is a picture of the team.
Semper Fi, SSgt Paul Zogg read more

USMC

USMC

Korea Certificate

loved your news letter and would love to suscribe to it , i come from a marine corps family my father was a p o w on sipan during ww ii ,my oldest brother was a hellcat pilot on the yorktown shot down in battle of midway ,i lost another brother on guadacannal ,and i had two sons that served honorably , and iam a chosin resevor survivor , ,the best thing i ever did was join the marine corps , there is a lot of truth to once a marine allways a marine ,and the pride instilled in me at parris island boot camp i will carry to my grave , i work a lot with veterens and its sad our boys comming home cant get there needs fulfiled ,because of budeget cuts we just got 18 vans shut down to get these boys to hospitals etc. my pet peve is why we as a country turn our backs on our veterens ,someone tell me why after severing two or three tours read more

Korea 1950

Korea 1950

Winter Sports, North Korea, 1950

In early December, 1950 at Yonpo Airfield, North Korea, I was assigned as a member of a team taking a Portable Radar set to the Chosin reservoir. After loading the equipment into a jeep and trailer, we drove over to the squadron mess tent to pick up some C-rations. It was about 8pm at night. At the mess tent we were told to stand down as the Marines at the Chosin were cut off due to other military units retreating, exposing the Marines flank. read more