Grit – The Mighty Mite that you are referring to. I once had one of our supply guys searching for the stock # of a radiator for the air-cooled Mighty Mite – he spent two hours on it – boy, was he mad.
R. Moen 2059141
My Salute
The decommissioning of Navy Hospital ship USS Sanctuary and being towed for its imminent demise to a scrap heap to me is just plain sad. When serving as a grunt with L3/7, 69-70, I had two medivacs onto the Sanctuary, once being treated for jungle rot infection and later for immersion foot. From the surgical staff to the nurses I along with my fellow Marines received the best of care! My salute to the Navy docs and nurses and especially all the bush Corpsman who without them … Ooorah! Semper Fi
MSgt Luca Isandoro (Ret)
Panama
Operation “NIMROD DANCER” (which no one has heard of) was several companies of Marines that guarded the Arrijan tank farm in Panama, pre-operation “Just Cause”. I was a 41 with Charlie 1/6 during this operation and attended the J.O.T.C. (army jungle school). One night on LP/OP, I spied through my NVGs a Humvee pulling up and stopping on one of the large mounds of earth that contained fuel for ships passing through the Panama canal.
I saw several guys pointing into the jungle to my port and trained my goggles in that direction. Instantly I saw three flashes come out of the jungle. My heart started pounding as I clicked to three round burst and prepared for an order to light up the jungle. BOOM! An illumination round fired into the night sky from behind me, and My buddy Russell cut loose with a sixty from the hill in front of me. It ended almost as quick as it started. ROE's said we couldn't pursue the enemy at night, so we all sat tight till morning. 11's patrolled the area and found bloody rags and goo spattered trees. No doubt those guys were looking for a medal that night in Panama shooting into a company of America's finest, but got a belly full of lead instead.
Just wanted to sound off for Charlie 1/6 and this unknown operation, and all the Marines involved who made contact with these PDF bast-rds looking for a medal for fighting US Marines. Semper Fi my brothers, I won't forget.