Sgt Grit – After reading so many memories of boot camp in your last newsletter I dug out this photo of my platoon taken spring of 1951 hoping it would spark some interest.
I remember our train backing into MCRD back gate and being welcomed by two mild mannered gentle marines (just kidding here) and my life has never been the same since then. I think we all thought we had got off the train at the wrong place.
SSgt R. L. RINEHART and Sgt J. K. JOHNSON was our DI's—-I am 2d from left in second row.
Robert E. Bailey
Capt USMC(Ret)
Lebanon, Missouri