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12 The War on Terror Edited by R. R. Keene
Marines launch major combat operations in Afghanistan while ww
continuing to teach and train Iraqi security forces and police.
18 On the Frontline With Embedded Training Team 2-7
By Stewart Nusbaumer
Training and fighting ff alongside soldiers of the Afghan Na-
tional Army, yy leathernecks write their own manual.
26 World War II: Survivor: Corporal Glenn McDole
and the Palawan Massacre Dick Camp
Japanese soldiers shot and bayoneted prisoners who ww were
attempting to escape the gasoline-fueled flames that engulfed
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30 The Cast-Iron Coffin By Steve McQueen as told to
LtCol Jack Lewis, USMCR (Ret)
The late actor Steve McQueens make-believe film ff adventures
were never as dangerous as his days as a Marine PFC!
36 Marines Become the Face of History
By Mary r D. Karc KK her
The National Museum of the Marine Corps turned to active-
duty leathernecks as models for the next exhibits, now being
developed.
39 Journalists and Leathernecks: Reporters Visit Quan-
tico for a Day in the Life of a U.S. Marine By Andrew Lubin
Journalists with the University of Marylands Knight Center
for Specialized Journalism visited MCB Quantico, Va., to gain
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46 A D-Day Salute to the U.S. Marines
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The 30th Commandant of the tt Marine Corps recalls a surprising
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Letter of the Month
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Sound Off ff Letter of the Month.)
Every year as the anniversary of my mm
June 14, 1957, enlistment draws aa near, I
have this thought tt to explain what the U.S.
Marine Corps means to me.
In those days, aa we had options: college
or the military. A little thing like not hav-
ing a high school diploma eliminated the
college option, so I thought hh I could at least
make a showing of trying to enlist.
I had sustained a sports injury, so I felt
sure I would not be drafted, dd but to ensure
this I felt I would check with all the serv-
ices and become ineligible. At this time
in my life, ff I was not the most intelligent
person around. For instance, I really did
not know what a Marine was or that the
word marine had anything to do with
water. I was not even adequate cannon
fodder.
I checked all the services and was told
that due to my injury, they could not take
me, except, the Marine Corps. I checked
with the Marine recruiter and gave my mm
spiel. I still remember him, a gunn nn ery ser-
geant with a truckload of ribbons. He asked
me if the injury bothered me and I told
him only in damp weather. The gunny
said, dd No sweat, lad, and signed me up.
The next thing I knew, it was 0230,
June 15, 1957, and myself and a busload
of other innocents were delivered to the
Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
where we met an angr aa y, foul-mouthed uu cor- rr
poral. In some way we had insulted his
beloved oo Corps. We had no idea what ww we
might have aa done because we had just ar-
rived, but apparently, yy that was all it took.
At this point the thought was creeping
into my mind that maybe I had made the
wrong decision.
Things were not going the way the
gunny said they would. He had not men-
tioned Receiving Barracks; I fou ff nd out
why hh . yy We wer ww e met by our drill dd instructors.
They had a lasting effect on my mm life ff in
and out of the Corps. My senior drill in-
structor was Staff Sergeant Sorenson who ww
told us: Yo YY u have aa a duty to your God, dd
your family, your country and the Corps,
but not necessarily in that order. My
seven years in the Corps went rapidly. I
was ww at aa Camp Pendleton, Calif., ff in 1964 and
met the other Marine who made a vast
differ ff ence in my life ff : the provost marshal
sergeant, Sergeant Major Lang. These
two Marines were the ultimate Marines. I
like to think of them as bookends to my mm
Marine Corps career. There were many nn
other offi ff cers and enlisted Marines I will
remember forever.
I got out in 1964, but the Corps did not
get out of me. The change is forever is
more than a slogan. There is hardly a day
that goes by that I dont think about it, or
if I have aa to make an important decision,
something relative to the Corps comes
into mind. I dont wear the fact that I am
a Marine on my mm sleeve. I dont have to. I
know what the Corps is and has done for
me. Most people are surprised when I tell
them I am a Marine and being in the
Corps was the only time in my life that I
really fe ff lt safe ff . They are usually aston-
ished to hear this. I dont bother to try to
tell them why. hh I received much more from
the Corps than it received from me.
I just had to exp xx ress my feelings of what aa
this great brotherhood has done for me.
Sgt Darwinn B. Rutz
USMC, 1957-64
Greeley, Colo.
This Weapon Is Stamped
Made in the USA
Unless these tt old eyes are deceiving ii me,
the upper uu photo on page 33 of the Janu-
ary issue shows General, then-First Lieu-
tenant, Robert H. Barrowholding a UD42
submachine gun. The UD42 was pro-
duced from 1942 to 1943 by United De-
fense Supply Corp., a gov oo ernment-formed
company nn specifically tasked with weap-
ons development, for possible issue as a
replacement fo ff r the Thompson subma-
chine gun. It was used by agents of the
OSS [Office of Strategic Services], and a
good number were dropped to Chinese
forces. No doubt, this is wh ww ere 1stLt Bar-
row [pictured above] obtained his copy.
The weapon never received wide dis-
tribution due to its reliance on all-ma-
chined parts, which limited its speed of
manufac ff ture. The gun was produced in
.45-cal. and aa 9 mm. mm Today aa , yy this rare we ww apo aa n
is a premium collectors item.
MSgt Bob Caulkins, USMC (Ret)
Brunswick, Ga.
Marine Mom Worried About
Weapons Security
I am the mother of a Marine who ww has
served one tour in Iraq and went to Af- ff
ghanistan in May. I alw ll ays read my mm sons
Leatherneck magazine when it arrives
and then pass it along to him.
I just finished reading the April article
about sniper rifles titled Precision Weap aa -
ons and foun ff d it very interesting. Then I
began to wond ww er if the information in thi tt s
article would also be interesting to the
enemy. mm The article explains how the bar-
rels can be altered for ff a suppressor and can
fire at a closer range, muffling the sound
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Sound Off
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and hiding the flash, keeping the sniper
safer. Another paragraph explains how oo the tt
rifle ff s were improved so that they could
shoot accurately past 1,000 yards.
I am no gunsmith, so I dont kno kk w how oo
much of this info ff rmation is generally
kno kk wn oo to people who ww make weapo aa ns. But
speaking as a worried moth tt er, I was won ww -
dering if Leatherneck cc is certain, in publish u -
ing articles like this in your Technology/
Gear section, that they are not helping th tt e
enemy mm improve his weapons also. I do
enjoy reading your magazine and I thank
you for your efforts.
Susan Martin
York Springs, Pa.
Mrs. Mar MM ti tt n, we are rr sendin dd g n
you our Leatherneck Securi ty
Conscious and Aware rr ness
Challenge gg Coin. The Ma MM rines
at Precis rr ion Weapons Section (PWS) say
you can buy u most of o the tt weapons a parts tt
on the civilian market, tt however, rr accord- dd
ing to Ch CC ief e Warrant Off O i ff cer 5 Sc SS ott A.
Justus, offic o er in charge, e the kno kk w-how is
something that is maintained and re-
mains at PWS. The TT rifles i themselves are
not much more than an ordinary rifle ff in
the hands of unskilled shooters. The am-
munition is sp s ecially made dd , and while
similar rounds can be fi ff red, they tt are not
as effect ff ive.Sound Off Ed.
A Few More Words About
The Candy Bar Kid
I want to comment on the Candy Bar
Kid letter in the April Sound Off col-
umn uu . I was with tt How Company nn , yy 3d Bat-
talion, Seventh Marine Regiment, July to
October 1952. There was a Lewis in the
company who was refer ff red to by that
name.
[The above photo] looks like it is a
made for Hollywood picture. When we
were on the line, movement in the day-
light always aa dre dd w enemy fi ff re and we only ll
went out in front of the lines after sunset!
Raymond R. Ronan
Oakhurst, N.J.
In late 1951, possibly early 1952, when
I was a combat m correspondent attached to
the 2d Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment,
I rememb m er doing a yarn about uu the Can aa dy
Bar Kid (Candy, not with a K), who
slipped through our wire at darkness,
armed only with a knife and his pockets
filled with can aa dy dd bar aa s. Wh WW ile he wa ww s tasked
with reconnaissance, he also managed to
use the knife very handily. I had a very
short conversation with him befor ff e being
told not to use his name in any article I
did. To TT this date I could not tell you his
name.
The story was sent back to [First Ma-
rine] Division, and I never heard anym nn ore
about it. The fact that the story turned up
in Argo r sy in 1952 bears out my hunch that tt
it could have aa been Sergeant Kyle Lewis.
In those days, many nn of our combat corre-
spondent stories ended up uu with tt a civi ii lians
byline. Because of th tt e stealth tt he required, dd
I doubt he was a sniper. He carried a Ka-
Bar and that was about it.
Capt Jack T. Paxton, USMC (Ret)
Executive Director, USMCCCA
Wildwood, Fla.
Father Vasko Is Not the Only Priest
To TT Tend to MSG Israels Spiritual Needs
It was nice to see Father Peter Vasko
named an Honorary Marine by General
James T. Conway aa , yy 34th Commandant of
the Marine Corps, in your March 2009
issue: Beyond the Call of Duty: Father
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[The above picture] is of Franciscan
Fath aa ers Carroll and Fitzgerald in the court-
yard of the American Consulate, Jeru-
salem, Israel, in 1948.
Fathers Carroll and Fitzgerald were
regular visitors there and made it a point
to visit we Marines who were th tt e security
at the consulate then.
They were a great comfort to all of us
there.
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Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicle Police
Winthrop, Mass.
Only in the Corps
I read the letter What Has Become of
the Service Uniform? in Aprils Sound
Off with tt great interest, because it brought hh
back fond memories of a Marine I served
with briefly at Quantico in 1968.
He had just retu tt rned fromVi VV etnam and
had maybe three weeks left in the Corps.
He left a note in his locker during an In-
spector Generals inspection that read, Im
so short you yy can aa t see me.And, he was no-
where to be found. As you can imagine,
that did not go over very well. I do not re-
call wha ww t his punishment was, but it prob-
ably included mess duty on weekends.
Regarding the uniform of the day: The
two of us were assigned to deliver mate-
rial for a conference at the Pentagon. As
required, I wore my mm service uniform with
a barracks cover and shoes shined to an
inspection grade. He wore salty utilities
and dirty jungle boots. We WW arrived at the
Pentagon and got about 100 yards inside
when a booming voice yelled: Marine,
halt where you are! There stood the Ser-
geant Major of the Marine Corps with a
look on his fac ff e that would make drill in-
structors cringe. He ripped my mm colleague
up an aa d down ww an aa d called our uu comp mm an aa y nn com-
mander. Again, I do not recall the pun-
ishment, but back in those days, we took
the wearing of utilities off base as bizarre
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as walking around naked, dd especially in
the confines of another installation.
I dont know where ww that Marine, whose
first name was Gene, is today, yy but I am
sure his remembr m ance of visiting the Pen-
tagon that day varies from my mm own quite
a bit in terms of fondness.
Daniel M. Rennus
USMC, 1967-69
Rockville Centre, N.Y.
Wear the Proper Uniform
For the Proper Occasion
I just finished reading retired Gunnery
Sergeant r Steven A. Coles April letter and
I cant tell you how oo much I agree with him.
In fact ff , Im in such total agreement that I
had to write you immediately.
As Ive told my sons, you dress for the
occasion. If dungarees and boots are re-
quired, dd then wear them. If the occasion
calls for a three-piece suit, then put it on.
Quite fra ff nkl aa y, ll Imnot impressed with those
who walk into a store or down the street
wearing their utilities, regardless of serv-
ice. When youre out of the boonies or off ff
the battlefield, dd you should have pride of
service and pride of character to wear the
appropriate clothing, and that means the
appropriate service uniform of the day. aa
To be honest with you, Im a littl tt e more
than upset that my Marine Corps has al-
lowed oo th tt is curre uu nt mode of dress to become
everyday wear. Someone needs to correct
this situation, and that starts at the top.
Former LCpl David Sullivan
USMC, 1964-66
Waterford, Conn.
The Ma MM rine Co CC rp rr s is ii indeed moving to tt
tight ii en tt up on the tt wearing ii of ut ff il tt i ll ty tt unifor ii m rr s
and getting back into service unif i or ff ms.
Th TT e Corps still do dd es ee not allow ll the wearing
of utility unifor i ms off base (with minor
except e ions), s except when going to and
from work in a vehicle.Sound Off ff Ed. EE
Readers List Their Own Favorites
As Top-10 Badass Marines
There is no shortage of Marine heroes
from 1775 to today aa . yy However, given the
[Ap AA ril] Leathern rr eck ar aa ticle, Top-10 Bad-
ass Marines, I wonder wh ww y hh at least two
heroic Marines are not listed. Sergeant
Major Dan aa Daly, ll two ww -time Medal of Honor
recipient nn from rr WorldWar aa I, is one, an aa d Maj-
or General Smedley D. Butler, rr also a two-
time Medal of Honor recipient, is an aa other. rr
Butler was a solid Marine officer who ww
took care of his Marines and also got the
job done. He was a Marine I would want
on my flank because he was loyal to the
troopsnot only after his time in the
Corps, but also to the Bonus Army mm veter-
ans after WW I. He was the epitome of a
Marines Marine.
Former Sgt Patrick Hayes
Hampden, Maine
Havi aa ng met Stan Wa WW wrzy aa niak and
Chesty Puller and later serving with
Ernie DeFazio and working with John
Ripley, yy Leatherneck is on the money when
it comes to some Badasses.
I would like to add three names of Ma-
rines I served with during my mm time:
Colonel Joseph R. Bull Fisher, my mm
comma mm n aa ding offic ff er in 3d Battal tt ion, Ninth nn
Marine Regiment, and 2/4 with DeFazio.
He was a three-war Marine: Iwo Jima,
Chosin Reservoir and Operation Starlite.
He also earned the Navy Cross.
Sergeant Major Neal D. King, another
three-war guy. He was my mm drill instructor
in 1950 and my mm sergeant major when ww I was
in 4th Marines. In 1969, he took a reduc-
tion in seniority to go from Fleet Marine
Force Pacific to be Sergeant Major, 3/3,
in Viet VV nam.
SgtMaj Mike Mervosh, three-war Ma-
rine, was my mm company gunny in 1950
with 1/6. The club at Camp Pendleton is
named for him. He was out front all the
time.
Good job on the Top-10 TT Badass
Marines.
Capt Ed Garr, USMC (Ret)
Ocala, Fla.
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Top TT -10 Badass Marines comes as no
surpri rr se. Afew ee personal recollections con-
cerning Major Ski whi ww le he was execu-
tive officer of 2d Force Reconnaissance
Battalion (then at Camp Geiger, N.C.)
may point up uu the tt marrow of th tt is two-t ww ime
Navy Cross winner.
You never wanted to get separated from
your weapon. Ever. At the tail end of a
week-long guerrilla escape and evasion
exercise, an aggressor fo ff rce ambushed our
extract tt ion truck rr with tt smoke and tear gas
grenades. We scat aa t tt ered in a tar- aa black night hh .
I trie r d to take aa out uu a tre tt e with tt my mm head, gain-
ing a concussion and losing my mm weapon in
the process. Showing up uu back at the com-
pany minus my mm rifle immediately earned
me an audience with Maj a Waw WW rzyniak.
He stared right through me. G--damn
it, Darby r , yy you ever want to get off ff this
base while Im still breathing, youll walk
out to wherev ee er in hell you yy lost that wea ww po aa n
and youll not come back without it.
I returned with the rifle a day later.
Stanley Wawrzyniak didnt much like
quitters either. A couple of Recon candi-
dates were suffer ff ing through an entry-
level test under his watchful eye when,
aft ff er a half-d ff ozen wiggle-worm pull-
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announced he could do no more.
The majo a r exploded, dd Cant? This
country was not built on cant. The Ma-
rine Corps was not built on cant. Now
get back up on that ------- bar!
And he had his own take on morale.
Morale aint got nothing to do with lib-
erty tt or mail call or curtains in the barracks.
Morales got to do with training your
people so most of them get back alive.
Sgt Reuben Darby, USMC (Ret)
Hedgesville, W.Va.
StanWawrzyniak would have to be at aa the
top of my mm list too! Stan was Comma mm nd aa ing
Officer, rr Headquar qq ters rr Battalion, Third Ma-
rine Division ii on Okinawa when a fewof us
fromdivi ii sion headquarters were being sent
toAir/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company nn in
Vietnam during April 1972. As he was
wishing us farewell, we could see tears in
his eyes because he was not going with tt us.
I dont know where they would fit on
your list, but two names would at least
deserve an honorable mention: Colonel
Bill Masterpool and Lieutenant Colonel
Alex Mr. Recon Lee. These two could
walk around in a firefight, with impunity, yy
like a walk in the park.
Jack Vogt
Hampton, N.H.
I enjoy n ed your Top-10 Badass Ma-
rines. I propose a similar challenge to
Leatherneck tt readers: Pick the All-Time
Marine Corps Super Squad. The criteria
are a little more restrictive; they tt mus mm t have
distinguished themselves at the small-unit
level. This always makes for interesting
discussion at Happy Hour, particularly
with Marines from differing generations.
Ive tried to spread the wealth with rep-
resentatives from the Spanish-American
War to Operation Iraqi Freedom:
Squad Leader: First Sergeant
John Quick, Medal of Honor
First Fire Team Leader: Gunnery Ser-
geant Dan Daly, two Medals of Honor
Automatic Rifleman: Corporal
John Yancey, two Navy Crosses
Assistant Automatic Rifleman:
Sergeant Michael Strank, KIA
Iwo Jima, flag raiser
Rifleman: Sgt Alfredo Gonzalez,
Posthumous Medal of Honor
Second Fire Team Leader: Sgt Herman
Hanneken, Medal of Honor
Automatic Rifleman: Platoon Sergeant
John Basilone, Posthumous Medal of
Honor, Navy Cross
Assistant Automatic Rifleman:
Cpl James Day, aa Medal of Honor
Rifleman: Staff ff Sergeant
Jimmie Howard, dd Medal of Honor
Third Fire Team TT Leader: Sgt Bill
Ironman Lee, three Navy Crosses
Automatic Rifleman: PltSgt
Mitchell Paige, Medal of Honor
Assistant Automatic Rifleman: Cpl
Robert E. OMalley, yy Medal of Honor
Rifleman: Cpl Robert J. Mitchell Jr.,
Navy Cross
Why is Sergeant Majo a r John Quick the
squad leader? Simple, he was senior.
LtCol Bob Dixon, USMC (Ret)
Woodbridge, Va.
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items, denta nn l hygiene items, etc., to be used
for MedCap [Medical Civic Action Pro-
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Regiment. The sergeant major has a two-
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OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Marines Strike Insurgent Positions
Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground
Task ForceAfghanistan conducted a
maj a or combat operation against insurgent
forces in Now Zad, Helmand province,
April 3.
The leathernecks of Company L, 3d
Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment (Re-
inforced) struck well-known enemy mm loca-
tions in the insurgent-infested Now Zad
district center.
Now Zads district center is kind of a
unique place inAfghani aa stan because the tt re
is no local civilian population, said the
Lima Co executive officer ff , First Lieu-
tenant Mike H. Buonocore.
Engineers with Combat Logistics Battal tt -
ion 3 reinfo ff rced Lima Co. SPMAGTF-A
also provided aviation sup uu port, rocket ar-
tillery support from Battery D, 2/14 and
various elements fro ff m the U.S. Air Force,
Navy and Army. mm
During the combat operation, Lima Co
targeted r positions where insurgen r t attacks
have originated from during the past sev-
eral months. Other locations were identi-
fied with intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance assets.
The two ww major comp mm onents involved in
the operation were a ground force and an
aerial assau aa lt. Combined fires fro ff mrocket
artiller rr y, rr aircraft, mortars aa and ground troops tt
destroyed enemy targets.
The mission took some enemy mm forces
out of the fig ff ht and showed them how
much force we have aa with us and what ww we
can use against them, said Corporal An-
drew C. Conte, an infantry squad leader.
It really ll cleared out uu some of the areas we ww
were havi aa ng troubles in.
The ground scheme of maneuver em-
ployed oo Lima Co as the tt main effort by con-
ducting a raid on a kn kk own ww enemy position,
while other Marines provided blocking
forces to ensure insurgent reinforcements
were denied th tt e opportuni uu ty tt to engage th tt e
Marines.
Navy aa F/A-18C Hornet fi ff ghter-attack
aircraft ff , an Air Force B-1B Lancer bomb m -
er, Marine AH-1W Super Cobra attack
helicopters, the Armys tactical missile
system and D/2/14s high mobility ar-
tillery rocket systemset conditions for the
operation by employing precision muni-
tions on key insurgent targets.
THE WAR ON TERROR
Once the bombs started dropping,
there wasnt too much movement, said
Conte. With all the ground for ff ces out
there and everything we had overhead oo , dd it
was calm because we knew nothing was
going to touch us.
Additional munitions were called in on
other known enemy mm positions to ensure
the raid force ff was successful. ff As the bar-
rage lift ff ed, the assault element moved in.
We were able to engage some enemy
targets before they engaged us, said Cpl
Taylor E. Vogel, a forward observer with
the 81 mm mortar platoon. We were able
to drop mortars on [enemy] fire teams
that were moving in on [Marine] units.
We destroyed the big targets that have
been occupied by enemy forces.
Prior to the operation, the Marines had
conducted daily combat m operati aa ons in Now
Zads district center in order to shape the
battlefiel ff d.
Marines used leaflet drops and radio
broadcasts in the area to warn the popu-
lation in nearby villages of danger in the
area.
Throughout uu th tt e winter inAfghanistan,
you hear about the [insurgent] spring of- ff
fen ff sive, said Conte. We caught them
before they caught us in the spring offe ff n-
sive, and we set the tone showing how
much [firepower] we have aa and what we
can use.
Insurg uu ents att aa empted to count uu er the tt Ma-
rines stri tt ke on Now Zad with tt improvised
explosive ii devices, morta rr rs, aa small-arms rr fi ff re
and two rockets that were fired ff overhead
with no success. Unwavering, the Ma-
rines identified and pursued their targets.
The operation was a tremendous suc-
cess on all levels, said Buonocore. The
confir ff med battle damage assessment is
pretty significant. There were no civilian
casualties, and nothing was hit th tt at wasnt
a target. We have achieved tremendous
success here against the enemy.
LCpl Brian D. Jones
Combat Correspondent, SPMAGTF-A
Farah Province
3d Bn, 8th Marines Secures Golestan
By Building Faith in Government
U.S. Marines are working diligently to
create favorable conditions for Afghani-
stan security forces and to build the peo-
ples faith in their countrys government.
In Golestan, aa Fa FF ra aa h aa province, rr leathernecks
in 2d Platoon, Company K, 3d Battalion,
Eighth Marine Regiment (Reinforced ff ),
Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task
ForceAfghanistan mentor and train the
Afghan ff National Police wh ww ile prov oo iding
security and working closely with gov-
ernment offic ff ials to achieve community
goals.
The platoons responsibility is provid-
ing security throughout Golestans valley
by conducting patr tt ols through the rugged,
mountainous terrain and villages.
With WW out you I cannot live and work in
this area I am in, Qasim Khan, KK the dis-
trict sub-governor, told Marines through
an interpreter. One of the fi ff rst thi tt ngs you
create aa d here was safe ff ty, yy an aa d th tt at aa is the big-
gest thi tt ng. I guarantee you, if you werent
here, we wouldnt be here either, and we
want nn to contin nn u nn e workin rr g together to bring
more security.
Khan meets often with the Marines to
discuss local issues, in the hopes of find-
ing resolutions.
Khan acknowledged the sacrific ff e the
leathernecks hav aa e made in being sepa-
rated from their famil ff ies. We all under-
stand you left ff your childr dd en, you left ff your
wives and have left ff th tt em to come to a far-
away aa land for me, for our country, Khan KK
said. We want security, and we want to
live like you do. We pray aa eve ee ry rr day aa that tt you yy
all make it home safely.
Within Golestans valley, there are ap-
proximately 10 tribes scattered through-
out 15 villages. Many nn of the villages the
Marines patrol have rarely seen alliance
forces.
People further away aa think their gov-
ernment is weak and believe the [insur-
gency] is the only other way, said Amir
Mohammed, dd the district prosecutor.
Corporal Benjamin G. Miles, a mor-
tarman who ww volunteered for ff the deploy-
ment to Afghanistan, says aa the job is very
time-consuming, but worth tt it. He believes
the Marines are creating conditions safe
enough for workers to improve local fa-
cilities and infrastructure.
We try to help them whe ww never we can,
as far as food and medical attention, and
if they need stuff, ff they can come and
ask, said Lance Corporal William Her-
ing, another tt mortarman. Well help them
if we can. There hasnt been an attack
from surrounding towns because we are
constantly patrolling and showing a pres-
ence. We WW re letting the people see that
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AAbove: Marines take cover during a controlled detonation in the village of Now Zad. Leathernecks of L/3/8
are reintroducing Afghan-led AA governance to the area.
Below: Leathernecks maintain security while others assess battle damage on a former insurgent position
in the village of Now Zad.
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were here, and we are doing stuff to help
them out.
A great deal of the units time also is
spent escorting convoys and protecting
landing zones to ensure much-needed
supplies are delivered for the populace.
Convoys have been ambushed multiple
times, and weve pushed back the enemy
to the point that they retreated, Hering
said.
The Marines have been in firefights, ff
encountered uu improvised expl xx osive ii devices
and had a rocket-propelled grenade at-
tack on their forward operating base, but
had no casualties. I like it out here be-
cause we are really taking the fight to the
enemy, yy said Cpl Miles.
Here on this forward operating base,
Ive noticed that everybody wants to be
the best, said Sergeant Aaron M. Titus,
1st Squad leader, 2d Plt. Its almost a
competition or a rivalry between the
squads. Everybody wants to be good at
their jobs. Thats a good deal when people
care that much.
Second Lieutenant Daniel M. Yurko-
vich, the platoon leader, stressed the im-
portance of building close fam ff ily ties
[within the platoon] while working in an
isolated area. All my mm Marines out here
are a pretty tt tight family, ff and they tt re doing
amazing things. I got guys that go out on
patrol and come back, stand post, fi ff ll
sandba dd gs and other tasks all in one day aa . yy
Theyre all great young men, and it is the
one thing that brings us together.
LCpl Brian D. Jones
Combat Correspondent, SPMAGTF-A
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Al Asad Air Base, Iraq
Iraqi Soldiers Learn to Deal With IEDs
For years, the terrorists weapon of
choice in Iraq has been the improvised
explosive device because it allows him to
target coalition forces without fear of di-
rect confrontation.
Although technology has helped miti-
gate the threat posed by IEDs and road-
side bombs, they continue to appear on
Iraqs roads and highways.
To help counter thi tt s threat tt , soldiers fr ff om
1st Company, yy Special Forces Battalion,
7th Iraqi Army Division participated dur dd -
ing March and April in training designed
to counter the threats posed by IEDs.
We want the Iraqis to recognize the
IEDs and know what indicators to look
for, said Robert Wise, a special opera-
tions foreign internal defense advisor
with Military Transition Team 7. The
Iraqi army soldiers are becoming targets
now because the insurgents know they
are the biggest threat.
The IED and unexploded ordnance
recognition training was part of a month-
long course designed to further the skills
AAn Iraqi commando takes his turn practicing a
sweep of an area planted with simulated IEDs dur-
ing the month-long commando course orches-
trated by the 7th IA Div and MiTT-7 of MNF-W.
Second Lt Daniel M. Yurkovich
(far right) and LCpl Farid
Hotaki speak with a man from
Golestan March 13. The
lieutenant and his Marines
work with the populace to
gain intelligence on insurgent
activity in the area and
inquire about peoples needs
and concerns. (Photo by LCpl
Brian D. Jones)
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of Iraqi commandos assigned to the 7th
IA Div headquartered at Camp Mejid at
Al Asad Air Base.
Instructors from a counter-IED train-
ing team taught the Iraqi soldiers how to
spot and identify different ff types of IEDs,
as wel ww l as the components used in making
IEDs and other explosive devices. Aft ff er a
period of classroom instruction, the Iraqi
soldiers took to a dirt lane dotted with
broken-down oo vehicles, trash and assorted
debris to refine their search techniques.
I was trying to teach them to not go
up to it [a potential explosive device] and
then keep their eyes on it until somebody
got there to take care of it, explained Spe-
cialist Kevin Morren, an Army counter-
IED instructor with Task Force Troy.
It was a very good course, said Pri-
vate Abbas Jejan, a squad sergeant with
Special Forces Bn, 7th IADiv. If we went nn
out tomorrow, we might face something
we have noticed in this class.
First Lieutenant Scott Alexander, a re-
connaissance platoon leader with Regi-
mental Combat Team 8, whose platoon
has been working closely with the Iraqi
commandos during the course, said the
Iraqi soldiers have progressed significant ff -
ly in their training and can use the infor-
mation to train other Iraqi army platoons.
The Iraqis are eager to train, saidAlex-
ander. They have a vision and are the
driving ii force behind the training program.
Cpl Jo Jones
Combat Correspondent, MNF-W
Corpsmen Teach TT Iraqi Commandos
Basic Lifesaving Skills
For more than three weeks in March
and April, soldiers with the Commando
Battalion, 7th Iraqi Army Division have aa
been fine-tuning their combat skills dur-
ing a rigorous training course taught by
Military Transition Team 7 at Camp Yas-
sir, Al Asad Air Base.
While reconnaissance Marines from ff
Regimental Combat Team 8 and Army
counter-improvised explosive experts have
helped hone the commandos ability to
fight, U.S. Navy corpsmen from RCT-8 TT
recently took the stage to teach the Iraqis
how to save lives.
During a medical instruction and prac-
tical application training course at Camp
Yassir onApril 4, the Iraqi soldiers learne aa d
a few ff of the basic lifesaving skills all sol-
diers need.
According to RCT-8 Hospital Corps-
man Second Class Michael J. Crawford, aa
the first aid instruction is an essential tool
for the Iraqi soldiers to keep themselves
and their fellow soldiers alive.
Periods of instruction included how to
stop bleeding through direct pressure,
bandaging and the application of tourni-
quets, checking for and restoring breath-
ing, and immobilizing and aa splinting nn broken
bones. After the corpsmen explained and
demonstra tt ted the tt medical techniqu qq es, the tt
soldiers practiced their newfound skills.
Complicating the classes was the need
for ff interpreters to bridge the language gap aa
between the Americans and their Iraqi
students.
As with all the skills taught during the
month-long commando course, it is ex-
pected that the students will take their
newfound information and pass it on to
other Iraqi soldiers.
The goal of the medical course, and all
the training coordinated by MiTT-7 and
similar units scattered throughout Iraq, is
to make the Iraqi army a self- ff suffi ff cient
force capable of securing its borders and
protecting its citizens.
Cpl Jo Jones
Recon Marines Teach House Clearing
To TT Iraqi Commandos
Reconnaissance Marines with 2d Pla-
toon, Company nn B, 1st Reconnaissance
Battalion, Regimental Combat Team TT 8
have been training Iraqi commandos with
the 7th Iraqi Army Division, Al Asad Air
Base on infantry tactics during a month-
long training evolution du dd r uu ing March and
April. As part of the course, the Recon
Marines started honing the Iraqis room-
clearing skills.
I was very impressed with today aa , yy said
Sergeant Aaron Tenorio, team leader with tt
1st Recon.
The Marines started with the basics of
roomclearing by bb demonstratin aa g the proper
way to clear a four-corner room. Aft ff er in-
struction, Iraqi soldier teams aa showed oo what ww
they learned while the Marines observed
and critiqued each team.
Theyre moving too fast, Tenorio told
the interpreter. Their hands are bobbing
up uu and down. He didn dd t check this corner
properly.
The interpreter would relay aa the infor-
mation to the soldiers and they would do
it again, and aa againa nn n aa d again. Even with tt
the constant critiques from their instruc-
AA commando with the Iraqi army ties a bandage
around his partners leg during a medical instruc-
tion and practical application course at Camp Yas YY -
sir April 4.
Recon Marines demonstrate to Iraqi commandos how to properly enter a room with a ffour-man team. The
Marines have been training Iraqi commandos on urban infantry tactics. (Photo by Sgt Eric C. Schwartz)
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They get this, but with tt anything, tt prac-
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rio said.
The biggest problem we have here is
the language barrier, said Corpo rr ral Kacey
Butcher, a radio operator.
Although the teachers and students
spoke kk differ ff ent languages, the tt commandos
understood they needed to learn and the
Marines unde uu rstood they tt needed to teach.
Overall, their discipline is good and
their office ff rs are aa locked on, Butcher said.
The more they work with Marines, the
more disciplined they become.
After two-man room clearing, they ad-
vanced up to five-man room clearing and
detainee handling.
As the day progressed, the comman-
dos, who learned quickly, began making
slight critiques to their soldiers on things
they need to work ww on or were doing wro ww ng.
These Marines are very well-trained,
said Iraqi army mm Lieutenant Ali Adelkha-
lef, 2d Platoon leader, 1st Bn, 7th IA Div.
I want to teach my soldiers how to do
this like the Marines, said Iraqi army
Lance Corporal Barra Ishmael Ahmed
with 3d Plt, 3d Bn.
Sgt Eric C. Schwartz
Combat Correspondent, RCT-8
Commandos Take to the Skies
For Air Assault Training
To refin ff e their air assault skills, Iraqi
soldiers with 1st Company, nn Commando
Battalion, 7th Iraqi Army mm Division took
to the skies in two Marine CH-53E Sup uu er
Stallion transport helicopters duri uu ngApril
as they participated in familiarization of
helicopter and air assault operations.
What were trying to do is get the
commandos used to getting on helicop-
ters, teach them the proper way of load-
ing and off- ff loading, how to store their
weapons, and how to pull security before
and afte ff r they get off the helicopters,
said Robert Wise, a special operations
for ff eign internal defense advisor with
Military Transition Team TT 7.
During the training, the commandos
loaded into the back of the helicopters
and were flown to a small objective sev-
eral miles away aa . Upon touchdown, the
soldiers quickly exited and set up secu-
rity in a 360-degree perimeter around the
helicopter, securing the immediate area
and allowing the CH-53E to safely lift off ff
again.
It was ww thei tt r first experience working as a
company mm with helicopters, said Iraqi army mm
Sergeant Qahtan Hamza, a platoon ser-
geant nn with 1st Co. It was ww very rr interesting.
The Commando Bn is made up of sol-
diers with vastly different levels of expe-
rience and training, and Wise explained
the importance of every soldier partici-
pating regardless of their profici ff ency.
Some of the [Iraqi] soldiers hav aa e done
this many times, but this is the first time
as a group, explained Wise. We have
them go through the training step by step
so we can get them all on the same level.
Although helicopter familiarization is
the commandos final exercise befo ff re
they gradua dd te from a month tt -long tr tt aining
cycle, both Wise and the soldiers feel
confid ff ent in the tt skills they hav aa e acqu qq ired.
I think theyve come a long way from
where we ww started off, ff said Wi WW se. Theyre
excited, theyre motivated, and theyve al-
ready been on one mission [since the
training began] where they looked for in-
surgent activity in Anbar province.
Hamza said he thoroughly enjoyed the
training and is confident in his abilities.
I am very ready for [a real-life heli-
copter mission], he said. I wish we could
go through helicopter training every day
and fly all around the country!
Cpl Meg Murray
Members of 1st Co, Commando Bn, 7th IA Div exit a CH-53E
Super Stallion during helicopter and air assault familiarization
at Al Asad Air Base April 9. (Photo by Cpl Meg Murray)
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C
amp Joyce, Afgha ff nistan nn th is sand-
bagged, remote base is on the front-
line of theAfghanistan ff war. rr Actua tt lly, ll
it is on the frontline of both Afghanistans
conflicts: the war against the enemies of
the Afghan ff state and the struggle to train
Afg ff hans to figh ff t hh the enemies of the tt ir state aa .
At Camp mm Joyce, the tt fighting and the train-
ing can shift back and forth several times
in one day, aa even several times in one hour. uu
Located in Kunar, one of the countrys
most violent provinces, the small base
sits on the rising foot ff hills of towering
mountains that crest on the Afghanistan-
Pakistan border. This is a major infiltra-
tion route for ff insurgents trav aa eling from
their sanctuary in Pakistan to the war in
Afghani aa stan aa . And the towering mount uu ains
are excellent platforms for insurgents to
fire down on Camp Joyce. oo Before I even
unpacked my bag when I arrived at the
camp on March 15, we were slammed by
several incoming rockets.
Named after Marine Lance Corporal
Kevin Joyce of 2d Battalion, Third Ma-
rine Regiment, Third Marine Division,
killed there in June 2005, today Camp
Joyce is home to Emb m eddedTraini TT ngTeam
(ETT) 2-7, whose men also are from the
3dMarDiv.
Story rr by Stewart Nusbaumer Photos courtesy of the author
Training and Fighting in Afghanistan
On the Frontline With
Embedded Training Team 2-7
Working through a Tajiman
interpreter nicknamed
Doc (his face intentionally
blurred), ETT 2-7 team members
GySgt Mario Garza (middle)
and Sgt Foster Uselton teach
rifle marksmanship basics to
ANA soldiers.
Embedded Training Team 2-7
ETT 2-7 has 21 Marines and sailors:
five offi ff cers, 13 noncommissioned offi ff -
cers and staff NCOs, and three corpsmen.
Of these 21 billets, 18 were filled int nn ernal-
ly ll from Combat Assault aa Batta tt lion (CAB),
3dMa dd rD aa iv, ii III Marine Expeditionary rr Force,
Okinawa, Japan.
CAB is a hybrid unit, a one-of-a-kind
mechanized/engineering battalion with
an Assault Amphibian Vehicle Company, nn
Light hh Armored Reconnaiss nn ance Co, Com-
bat Engineer Co and Headquarters and
Service Co. All Marines volunteered for
the assignment, but not all Marines were
accepted. It takes maturity and an ability
to make kk decisions on your uu own, says aa Lieu-
tenant Colonel Daniel L. Yaroslaski, the
commanding officer. ETT epitomizes
independent duty.
The leathernecks often improvise, ac-
cording to Sergeant Foster H. Uselton.
There is no manual for this work, he
says. No manual, but the essence of the
ETT mission is to train, tt advise and men-
tor the Afghan National Army. mm The goal
is to make the tt ANA AA independent of coali-
tion for ff ces and capable of defending Af- ff
ghanistan. This means the Marines are
training and mentoring in everything from
tactics to logistics to leadership.
ETT 2-7 was formed on Okinawa dur-
ing July 2008 and deployed to Marine
Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twen-
tynine Palms, Calif., in late Septembe m r un uu -
til lat aa e October, and aa then tt on toAfghani ff stan
in early November. For two months on
Okinawa, then one month in California,
the Marines worked on their hard skills
(e.g., vehicle driving, communications and
radio, counter-improvised explosive de-
vices or IEDs) and their soft skills (e.g.,
language and culture).
Some Marines specialized and went
to certain classes, says LtCol Yaroslaski,
a native Californian, rr and then the tt y tra tt ined
other Marines. Since we were going to
embed with an Afghan light infantry unit,
there was a focu ff s on peoples skills and
decision-making competence in teaching
the basic infantry skills.
Besides Camp Joyce, the headquarters
for ETT 2-7, team members also are at
Camp Monti, which is enveloped in a gor-
geous green valley of wild flowers and
stone walls reminiscent of Ireland. They
also are at aa Forward aa Operating Base (FOB)
Fortress that is on the main road to and
from Jalalabad, the largest city in eastern
Afghanistan an aa d at Combat Outpost (COP)
Penich, which ww is in a brown desolate desert
and, like Joyce, sits on a major infiltration
route fr ff om Pakistan.
With a battalion of 650 Afghan troops
to train tt and mentor spread over oo four sites,
the 18 Marines and three sailors of ETT
2-7 are thinly stretched and oft ff en work
independently.
The Gunny Training Afghan Trainers
Asked by an Afghan soldier about the
M16 rifle ff jamming, Gunnery Sergeant
Mario Garza responded with the clarity
and succinctness one might expect from a
gunny: Clean your rifle before patrol,
when you return uu from ff patr aa ol, and when on
an extended mission. It wont jam. The
Afghan return tt ed to dissembling, cleaning
and reassembling the M16.
Walking to the firing range, an open
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ing training at Camp Joyce.
All Marines volunteered for the
assignment, but not all Marines
were accepted. It takes
maturity and an ability to make
decisions on your own.
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area just outside the compound perime-
ter wire, GySgt Garza says aa , They love
their AK [rifle]; its bigger, with a larger
round and makes louder noise. But were
trying to teach them bigger is not always ll
better. Were trying to teach one shot, one
kill, and not multiple shots and no kill.
Ten Afghan soldiers had attended a
two-week tr tt aining course in Kabul to pre-
pare themto train tt other Afgh ff an soldiers to
fire the M16. A good course, the gunny
admits, but just not enough time. Al-
though Garzas military occupational spe-
cialty (MOS) is 1349, heavy aa equipment
chief, ff he has attended the Marine rifle
Teaching the need for cleaning individual weaponsas with these U.S.-provided M16A2 service riflesis a
significant piece in making each Mountain Lion a rifleman.
Using the time-tested method of training the trainers, ETT 2-7 taught
basic marksmanship and M16A2 rifle maintenance to 10 selected
ANA soldiers shown going downrange to check hits on their targets.
When I get good results on the
range, Garza nearly cracks a
smile, I am happy. I suddenly
had the feeling that the gunny was
not going to have a happy day.
marksmanship coachs course, been an
instructor on rifle ranges and shoots com-
petitively. yy Hes our gun nut, a Marine
told me with a big smile.
At the tt range, Gunny nn Garza rr demonstrate aa s
how to carry the weapon, how to pass a
weapon aa to another soldier and how to en-
sure no round remains in the weapon. I
will make this as much fun as possible,
but if you point your rifle at me, I will get
very angry. The Afghan translator didnt
really have to translate that sentence.
When I get good results on the range,
Garza aa nearl aa y ll cracks a smile, I amhappy. yy
I suddenly had the feeling that the gunny
was not going to have a happy day. yy
He orders fiv ff e Afghan ff soldiers into the
prone position and to snap in, telling
them to practice everything you learned
in th tt e coursebreathing, trig rr ger sque qq eze,
sight alignment, stock against cheek, legs
spread flat on ground. After about 15 min-
utes, he hands each shooter a magazine
and then three rounds.
After ff a donkey nn is shooed away aa fromthe
range, th tt e gunny snaps, Load! Shooters
in the prone position insert magazines into
their M16s. A few pull back the bolt, fol-
lowed by a shout from ff Garza. Make
ready! The bolts are pulled back, and
rounds slide into the chambers. You YY may
fire! Fire three slow, well-aimed shots!
And with sharp eyes and a stern face, ff the
gunny paces back and forth behind the
line of fi ff ring soldiers.
Aft ff er firi ff ng, Garza, accompanied by
his Afghan students, walks downrange to
the targets to analyze the resultswhich
he is not pleased withand then issues
sight adjustments. And the process is re-
peated: snap in make ready may
fire walk downrange analyze shoot-
ing adjust sights. With two groups of
five Afghan ff shooters, the process contin-
ues into the afternoon until, Just got
Intel, the gunny yells after receiving a
call on his cell phone. Theyre supposed
to be firi ff ng rockets at us in about a 20 min-
utes. OK, lets go downrangereal quick!
The next day, aa the number of rounds is
increased to four and then to 10, with
shooting periodically halted fo ff r cows and
goats slipping over the mountain. By late
aft ff ernoon of the second day, the gunnys nn
growl has softenedsomewhat. His eyes
are a little less intense. By the morning of
the third day, aa his stern face nearly cracks
into a smile. In the afternoon, his heavy aa
pacing behind the shooters slows, and
then stops. Afghans are now giving the
commands: make ready may fire, ff etc.
The 10 Afghan soldiers had learned the tt
firing process and the safety measures
and were grouping their shots closer to
the target center. And downrange at the
targets, as the third day aa was drawing to a
close, the gunny nn was smiling from ear to
ear: Good, man that is excellent
grouping thats fantas ff tic shooting
Im happy with that!
The ETT Mission in Afghanistan
The problem is not so much hard as-
setst heyre important, but most impor-
tant is the mindset, Colonel Michael E.
Langley told me at his desk on Camp
Blackhorse just outside of Kabul.
As commander of Regional Corps Ad-
visory CommandCentral, the colonel
oversees six Marine embedded training
teams and nine Army mm teams. The Afghan
Army will hit its peak when the Russ RR ian
model and ideology are expunged fro ff m
the service. He expressed concern with
the Afghan officer corps where too often
rank-status prevails and the enlisted sol-
dier, even senior enlisted soldier, has lit-
tle status and responsibility.
At Camp Joy oo ce, ETT 2-7s logistics of- ff
fic ff er, First Lieutenant Chad James, said
something similar: The Afghan Armys mm
logistics system is based on the Russian
system; everything flows from top down,
not from ff bottomup as it should. To TT change
their mentality and this system is going
to take time. Now we are only modifying
thei tt r Russian aa system, so it will take time.
At Blackhorse, Col Langley invited Ser- rr
geant Major Will WW iam F. Fitzgerald to join
our discussion. He zeroed in on the most
important attributes for an ETT Marine:
patience, focus and perseverance. Among
the Marines at Camp Joyce, patience is
constantly emphasized as crucial. Perse-
verance is often implied as a key to train-
ing a military in a different ff culture. You YY
Above: Some f of the
10 Mountain Lions selected
and specially trained to be
M16A2 marksmanship
instructors for the rest f of
1st Kandak (Bn),,
2d Brigade, 201st Corps,,
ANA. The 201st Corps is
transitioning from the AK47
to the M16 servi rr ce rifle.
Right: GySgt Erik Stark y ey kk
(left) and 1stLt Calvin
Parsons stand on Outpost
Narang in Kunar provi , nce,
Afghanistan.
dont look for improvement oo in one week
or in one month, Sgt Uselton told me,
but in three months. And without tt focus, ff
there cannot be patience or perseverance.
The Sergeant Mentoring Mountain Lions
Sgt Uselton had just fallen asleep; it
was 22:45. A pounding on his door shot
him straight up in bed. Uselton, we have aa
a mission! You have to get up and get the
ANA ready to roll out! It was Army 1LT
Anthony nn Evans of the U.S. Armys mm Scout
Platoon, from the small Army mm base re-
cently built next to Camp Joyce. oo
After walking the short distance to the
ANA qua qq rters, the tt sergeant rouses his Af-
ghanArmy rr platoon, the Mountain Lions.
Then he hustles hh to the tt heavily sandbagged
tactical operations center (TOC) and is
told the tt operation will be a snatch, with tt
only a few ff hours uu to catch the tt target befor ff e
he leaves the tt location. Akn kk own ww holder and aa
distr tt ibutor of weapons for ff the Taliban, the
subj u ect also is a leader fo ff r setting up local
ambushes on U.S. forces. Uselton grabs
his combat gear and hurries back to the
Mountain Lions. The convoy soon roars
out the front gate. Afgha ff n soldiers and
police ride in pickups while Army mm scouts
and Marines ride in Mine Resistant Am-
bush Protected (MRAP) vehicles.
Uselton, MOS 1341, an aa engineer equip-
ment mechanic, trains and mentors 30 ex-
perienced and seasoned Afghan soldiers
at Camp Joyce. His students are selected
from three differe ff nt companies as the bat-
talions Quick Reaction Force, now train-
ing to be a special operations platoon.
Its a prototype, LtCol Yaroslaski told
me. If it works out, it will be tried in
other ANA NN kandaxes [battalions].
On the road that runs through tt the tt village
of Chowkay, aa Army mm soldiers with MRAPs
set up blocking positions both north and
south of the town. oo Asquad of scouts walks
around to the west side of the village to
estab a lish an aa oute uu r cordon. ANA AA and aa Army
sniper teams take up positions on several
roofs, and the east side of the village is
sealed off by soldiers on the highway. The
assault teamenters the village to establi a sh
a cordon around the walls of the house.
Its pitch-black kk there are no street-
lights, and no house lights are on. Sgt
Uselton and aa a squ qq ad of Mountain Lions
using night vision goggles to mov oo e throu tt gh
the villages narrow streetsarrive at the
compound uu . They raise ladders on two sides
of the walls to observe the courtyard.
The Afg ff han police begin a tactical call
out, yelling that the house is surrounded
and for the subje u ct to come out. After sev-
eral minutes, they move oo inside the com-
pound for a soft knock (regular knock)
on the door. A middle-aged male opens
the door, appearing slightly nervous but
not scared, say aa s he does not kn kk ow the tar-
get, and then gives permission for his
house to be searched.
The operation went well, Sgt Uselton
say aa s later at Camp Joyce. No need for ff
me to do much; Mountain Lions know
what they were doing. Im just there to
supervise that they do the right things,
which they did. But we didnt get our tar-
get, which is really frustrating.
Gun uu ny Garza trains on the firing range,
and Sgt Uselton mentors Mountain
Lionsmostly in the fi ff eld dd and 1stLt
James advises his logistics counterparts.
Whether instructing or aff ff e ff cting by ex-
ample or through recommendations, the
Marines grow close to their Afghan sol-
diers. Living next to the tt m, going on com-
bined patrols and operations and getting
in firef ff ights ff , working with them to mod-
ernize their support system, ETT Marines
respect the tt Afg ff han soldier. Theyll fight,
and theyre courageous, said Corporal
Terry J. Halvorson, who work rr s with the
Mountain Lions. This is probably the
most rewarding duty Ive had in the Ma-
rine Corps, said Staff ff Sergeant Brad
Jones, a Marine for 13 years.
Out of this personal respect and rewar aa d-
As ETT TT 2-7 was stepping up activity during December 2008, LtGen Richard C. Zilmer (holding helmet), Com-
manding General, III Marine Expeditionary rr Force, Okinawa, Japan, and Sergeant Major Daniel J. Fierle, III MEF
sergeant major, visited the ETT, made up of mostly III MEF leathernecks, at Camp Joyce.
Perseverance is often implied
as a key to training a military
in a different culture. You dont
look for improvement in
one week or in one month.
Sgt Foster H. Uselton
For more photos of ETT 2-7 leathernecks, see
our slideshow at www.mca-marines.org/
leatherneck/ett27 //
ing work, rr Uselton says aa there is bonding.
Marines take their strong sense of bond-
ing with each other and extend it to their
ANA NN soldiers.
Suddenly an incoming rocket screeches
overhead, arcs, drifts downward and im-
pacts with a horrific boom! Uselton grabs a
his combat gear and sprints off LtCol
Yaroslaski and Gunny Garza race into the
TOC Sgt Cullen scurries up the ladder
to the observation platform Cpl Hal-
vorson scans the mountains with binocu-
lars outgoingArmy mortars blast away
an Afghan artillery piece opens up
violent orange flashes dance across the
side of a mountain.
The train, advise and mentor Ma-
rines are on hold. The fi ff ghting war has
returned to Camp Joyce.
Editors note: Stewart Nusbaumer,
wounded in Vietnam tt while serving as an
Amgrunt (an (( amph m ibian tra rr ctor Ma MM -
rine workin kk g with the infa n ntry rr ) yy , and med- dd
ically retired as a corporal rr , l has been an
embedded journalist with Army m and Ma-
rine units tt in Iraq and curren rr tly is embed- dd
ded with ETT TT 2-7 in Afghani ff stan. tt
Lt Faradoon, an ANA officer (left), worked closely with Sgt gg Uselton in coordi-
nating training for the team of ANA soldiers scheduled to return to their unit
as instructors.
Marine staff ff noncommissioned off ff icers GySgt yy Mario Garza (left) and SSgt Brad
Jones, as well as all the Marines of ETT 2-7, can be very proud of their achieve-
ments in providing a baseline of skills for key members of the ANA 201st Corps
in Kunar province.
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Photos and map courtesy of the author
S
uperior Private Tomisaburo Sawa, Impe-
rial Japanese Army fixed the bayonet on
his rifle and carefully checked to make
sure it was loaded. From the tt veranda of the bar-
racks, he watched as members of his platoon
advanced across the courtyard. Marine Private
First Class Glenn Mac McDole saw aa them
coming from the entranceway of his trench air-
raid shelter. He kn kk ew instinctively that some-
thing was terribly wrong.
The Japanese guards aa were in full combat m gear
with tt fixed bayone aa ts. Aguttu tt ral uu order was given ii ,
the line stopped, dd and the Japanese quickly formed a semicircle
around the trenches fil ff led with American prisoners of war
(POWs).
I saw five soldiers go up to one of the air-raid shelters and
throw buckets of gasoline into the entrance, Sawa stated. This
was follo ff wed by two men who threw lighted torches into the
opening.
McDole watched in horror as fl ff ames engulfed the trapped
Americans. One human torch climbed out of the trench and ran
screaming toward the Japanese. They shot him down, but others
were not so lucky. kk The guards watched them burn to death. Mc-
Dole ducked down, terrified ff by what he had seen. My God, he
thought, the Japanese are going to kill us all.
Palawan, Camp 10-A
With the surrender of U.S. fo ff rces in the
Philippines, American POWs immediately ll were
confined ff in filth ff y hh , yy ove oo rcrow oo ded camp mm s near Ma-
nila. McDole was sent to the infa ff mous Caba-
natuan Camp #1. It was a death camp; every
day 10 to 15 men died of malnutrition, vitamin
deficiency or contagious diseases. In addition,
brutal Japanese guards executed many prison-
ers for trumped-up charges.
McDole knew that tt th tt e same thi tt ng might hap-
pen to him. He searched for a way aa to escape the
camp. It fin ff ally came in the form of a large
working party. Wa WW nt men, want men, the
guards shouted. Three hundred go to Manila.
McDole, envis nn ioning better conditions, quickly raised his hand,
despite the Corps adage, Never volunteer.
On 12 Aug. 1942, he landed on Palawan, aa one of the largest is-
lands in the Philippines, 270 miles long, 15 miles wide and lo-
cated on the we ww stern perimeter of th tt e Sulu Sea. McDole mar aa ched
to an old, dilapidated Filipino constabulary barracks, his home
for the next 2 years. In a courtyard in front of a U-shaped bar-
racks, the prisoners were met by the commander of the 131st
Airfield Battalion, Captain Nagayoshi Kojim KK a, nicknamed the
Weasel by the POWs.
Kojima stood on a little pedestal so he could look down on
us, McDole remembered. In a squ qq eaky voice, he would say,
Americans, and pause, today aa we build roads. It wasnt long
Survivor: Corporal Glenn McDole
And the Palawan Massacre
WORLD WAR II
The one entrance to the Palawan prisoner camp (below f left ff ) helped control the prisoners f of war. Inside the walls (below right) were numerous coconut trees that
prisoners would climb at night to retrieve the coconuts.
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before we knew it was a lie. We were to build an
airstrip.
The prisoners started working almost immedi-
ately. yy There was nothing around the camp but thick
jungle. The POWs felled trees, hauled and crushed
coral gravel aa and poured concrete day aa after day with-
out adequate rest or food. It was all hand labor,
McDole emphasized, dd with only a level mess kit of
rice and an occasional bowl of mongo bean soup to
keep us going.
Food became an obsession; the prisoners thought
of it night and day. aa McDole dreamed of angel food
cake aa and ice cream. Others made up uu elab a orate menus
they inte nn nded to eat upon liberation. In the meantime,
they had to eat what they could scroungelizards,
birds, monkeys and snakes. McDole took a fancy ff to roasted
snake. Tastes TT just like chicken, he claimed.
Many of the prisoners became sick and were unable to work,
while others suffered ff from Japanese brutality. yy We had so many
fellows sick and beat up, McDole recalled, that they fil ff led one
wing of the barracks, which we called sick bay. yy
The term sick bay was a misnomer. There were no medi-
cines, and the men were put on half-rations if they did not work.
The Japanese carried a short club a bit thicker than an officers ff
woven leather swagger stick, McDole recalled. The guards
were expert at applying it to the kidneys or the back of the head.
They could drop a man with one blow.
The Japanese learned that several POWs OO had made contact
with local Filipinos, who gave aa them information and food. The
men were tied to the courtyard coconut trees and beaten in front
of the rest of the prisoners. One of the men was thrashed with a
wire whip, which tore his flesh to the bone. When one guard
tired, another took his place. The men were beaten unconscious,
dragged to a cell and put on a ration of half a mess kit of rice
every three days. aa
Even with tt the close supervision and threat of dire punishment,
several prisoners managed to escape, but not all of them made it
to freedom. Two POWs managed to elude capture for six days
befor ff e being dragged back to the camp. They were beaten un-
conscious in fro ff nt of the assembled prisoners and then loaded
on a truck and taken away. Filipinos said they were shot and
buried in unmarked graves aa .
A Stitch in Time
One American doctor was in the camp, mm but the Japa aa nese would ww
not give him any nn medicine, so he relied on his own remedies.
On 14 March 1943, McDole desperately needed the doctors ex-
pertise. I was busting rock when I suddenly broke out in a cold
sweat. I grabbed my mm side, and down on my knees I went. The
next thing I kn kk ew a guard was beating the heck out of me, telling
me to get back to work.
The American doctor convinced nn the guard that McDole was
really sick. He had acute appendicitis and was told he would die
without an immediate operation, but there was no anesthetic.
McDole responded, If Im going to die, lets die trying. He was
held down on a table by fiv ff e guards, who made fun of his
screams as the doctor operated. It took him two hours and fift ff y
minutes to get the appendix out and suture me back together,
McDole recalled. Unfortunately, infection set in.
One night his abd a omen rup uu tured. The doctor sewed the wo ww und
shut, but the thread would not hold. When that failed, dd the doctor
took shirt button uu s, lined themup uu alongside the incision and sewed
it up. After weeks of recovery, McDole was able to work again.
Massacre
By mid-October 1944, American B-24s began to systemati-
cally bomb the airfield. In one raid, they destroyed oo 60 Japanese
planes on the ground. Their arrival verified the rumors that an
American invasi nn on force was approaching the Philippines. The
POWs OO were overj oo oyedbut also worried. They had heard that
the guards would kill all the prisoners if the Americans invaded nn
the island.
The camp mm commande aa r decreed tha tt t aa the tt POWs OO would di dd g trenches
roofed with logs and dirt to serve as air-raid shelters. Three large r
and several smaller two- and three-man shelters were scattered
around the prison compound. Shelter A held 50 men, Shelter B,
35 and Shelter C had room fo ff r 25 to 30 prisoners. There was
only one entranc tt e, small enough to admit one man at a time. The
prisoners were instructed to get in the shelters when the air-raid
alarm sounded.
On 14 Dec. 1944, after spending the morning filling bomb
craters on the runway, the prisoners unexpectedly returned to
camp. The camp commander appeared and announced, Am er-
icans, your working ww days are ov oo er. At thi tt s pronouncement, most
of the men believed that the inv nn asion was coming, and they soon
Japanese ffighter aircr f aft ff operated ffrom the Palawan , airstrip,
wwhich included a concrete runway down the middle, concrete
turnoffs and two dirt strips, all built by the POWs.
This deserted Palawan warehouse is where many f of the prisoners had to sleep
on the floor or on whatever they could find.
would be fre ff e. Suddenly, ll the air-rai rr d siren wen ww t nn off, ff and the guards
started screaming to get into the bomb shelters. Their shouts
were punctuated by rifle butts and clubs. u McDole made a beeline
for Shelter C, which was located on the edge of a 60-foot cliff.
After some time, with no sign of planes, McDole was encour-
aged to look out, and see if [he could] see anything nn going on.
Lieutenan uu t ShoYoshiwara ordered the men of his company nn into
formation and told them to load fiv ff e rounds of ammunition and
to fix bayonets. Superior Private Sawa remembered that Cap-
tain Kojima appeared and announced that it was necessary to
kill all the POWs. Lieutenant Yoshiwara YY personally directed the
placement of individuals and issued th tt e necessary objectives and
methods of killing. He ordered those with rifles and machine
guns to kill any nn POW who ww came out of the air-raid shelters.
As McDole peered out, he saw several guards carrying buck-
ets of liquid. Others carried lighted torches. He watched as they
poured the contents of th tt e buckets into Shelter B and threw tt in the
torches. There was a burst of flame. Horror-stru tt ck, McDole heard
agonized screams as the men inside burned. He ducked back in-
side the trench tt and screamed, dd Theyre murdering the tt men in the tt
B-company nn pit. Finish digging the tunnel.
The inha nn bi a tants of Shelter Chad dug a tu tt nn uu el to extend beyond
the barbed-wire fence. Only a 6-inch plug of earth concealed an
emergency exit. McDole took anothe tt r quick qq look. He was horri-
fied by the carn aa agem en engulfe ff d in flames, guards bay aa oneting,
shooting and clubbing the helpless Americans.
Marine Sergeant Douglas W. Bogue saw several Americans,
while still burning or wounded, dd rush the Japs and fight ff them
hand to hand. One American, whom I could not recognize in the
confusion, succeeded in tearing a rifle from one Jap and shoot-
ing him before being bayoneted to death.
Sawa admitted at the war-crimes trial that seven or eight
POWs came runn uu ing out of one of the shelters. Lieutenant Yoshi-
wara yelled out, Shoot them. Shoot them! tt The light-machine gun
on the veranda, near my mm post, went into action and leveled these
POWs OO to the ground, dd killing each one of them. I opened fire with
my rifle and believe I dropped three of them. After that, Yoshi-
wara and another soldier threw two hand grenades into a trench.
I also saw aa two or three POWs OO bayoneted and one killed by a
sword.
Escape
As McDole kept watch, the prisoner at the end of the shelter
clawed aa the earth, quickly breaking through and widening the
hole. One by one the men pulled themselves out of the opening
and tumble m d down the cliff to the beach. Suddenly, yy burning gaso-
line splashed on the floor of the trench, setting one man on fire.
It was now or never for ff McDole. He pushed the last man out and
jumped. The screaming of the burning man stayed with him as
he stumbled and fell to the beach.
Sgt Bogue also was lucky to escape the trench, but he had to
tear through a barbed r -wire fe ff nce with his bare hands to reach
the cliff. ff McDole ran into his best fr ff iend. This is it, Buddy, isnt
it? McDole gasped.
Suddenly, rifle fire ff erupted from the top of the cliff. The two
men ran; bullets impacted all around them, as they desperately
searched for a hiding place. McDole spotted the camps mm garbage
dump and dove into the rotting mass. The smell was overpower-
ing, but he pushed deeper and deeper until he was covered com-
pletely. He ignored the worms and maggots and forced himself
to remain still. Wi WW thin minutes two ww other tt escapees burrowed into
the mound.
Muffl ff ed shots penetrated the garba r ge pile. One of the men
panicked, dd jumpe mm d up and ran for the water. He was gunned down
immediately. ll Another stood up and shouted, All right, here I am,
and aa dont miss me you SOBs! A volley of shots ended his shout.
Left: Japanese machine-gunners and riflemen stood on this veranda shootingg
POWs while others burned the captives alive in air-raid shelters.
AAbove oo : These Japanese soldiers stood trial inYoko kk hama for war crimes at Palawan. ww
McDole gutted it out until morning when he was near-
ly discovered. A guard was almost close enough to touch.
Suddenly another escapee was discovered, and the guard
ran off. Taking advantage of the tt distraction, McDole fled ff
the dump and took refuge in a sewer outlet where he
found ff a badly wounded prisoner. The two tried to swim
across the tt bay, but the man was too weak. McDole stay aa ed
with him until he succumbed to his wounds.
Bogue escaped the guards attention and foun ff d a small
crack in the rocks to hide in, all the time hearing the
butchery going on abov a e. The stench of burning flesh was
strong. The incoming tide forced him to mov oo e. While
crawling about, I found four others, he recalled. We
decided our only chance was to swim across the bay.
Bogue became separated from the others and spent the tt
next five ff days wandering around the jungle without food
or water. He was rescued by prisoners from the Iwahig
Penal Colony, yy a jail for locals convic nn ted of low-level
crimes. The prisoners fed and clothed him and contacted
the local guerrilla organization, which took him under
their control.
God Bless America
On the evening of 18 Dec., three days aa after the mas-
sacre, a badly weakened McDole slipped into the water
and began the five-mile swim. He was in the water all
night, arms and legs numb and almost useless, until he
collapsed on the beach shortly ll before dawn. aa
He found a coconut, cracked it open and
drank the milk, which helped him regain
some of his strength. As daylight emerged,
he saw huts across the bay aa and decided to
swim to them, praying it was a friendly vil-
lage. Halfway across, just before his strength tt
gave out, he spotted a wooden fishing ff trap,
climbed aboard and passed out.
The next morning he smelled food being
cooked in the village and saw a fishing boat
approaching the trap. aa He half rose, and they tt
spott tt ed him. Hey, Joe, a Filipino called out uu .
You a POW? McDole responded weakly,
I was, but no longer.
Shortly thereafter, he was reunited with Sgt Bogue. The two
rested one day, but were forced to flee after word was received
that a Japanese patrol was headed their way aa . yy On Christmas Eve,
they were on a hill overloo oo king a Filipino village, just as the sun
was setting. Their escorts stopped and in almost perfect English
san aa g, God Bless America. Both tt Americans r broke down ww as one of
the natives said, dd My friends, you are nowin the free Philippines!
Postscript
McDole was evacuated from the Philippines on 21 Jan. 1945.
He was one of only ll 11 survivors of the 159American POWs OO who
were massacred at Palawan. An Army mortuary unit excavated aa
the burned and destroyed dugouts afte ff r the war. The unit uu reported
79 individual burials and many more partial burials. The skele-
tons either had bullet holes or had been crushed by blunt instru-
ments. Most of the tt remains were found ff huddled together at a spot
farthest away from the entranceway, in an attempt to escape the
fire.
In two dugouts, remains were found in a prone position, arms
extended with small conical holes in the dugouts at fingertip
level. They had tried to dig their way to freedom. In 1952, the re-
mains of 123 victims were interred at the Jeffe ff rson Barracks Na-
tional Cemetery in St. Louis.
After ff the war, the Japanese were treated considerably better
than their prisoners had been. The senior Japanese of- ff
ficer was tried and sentenced to hang, but the sentence
was reduced to 30-years imprisonment. Only 14 Japanese guards
were brought to trial; the others could not be found. Six were
acquit qq ted, dd and the tt others received sentences from two to 12 years
of imprisonment.
Superior Private Sawa aa appeared at the trial the worse for wear.
The indomitable Sgt Bogue admitted to beating Sawa, who had
been one of his guards. Sawa aa received a fi ff ve-year sentence de-
spite Bogues request to have aa him hanged.
After his discharge, McDole was an Iowa highway patrolman
for 29 years aa and a Polk Count uu y tt sheriff. ff He was called up for Korea KK
and served one year at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,
Calif., befor ff e hanging up uu his Marine uniform ff fo ff r good. McDole,
in his 80s, donates his time to talk about Palawan, so that the
men who died there will not be forgotten. His book, Last Man
Out, is an account of his POW OO experiences.
Editors note: Retired Col CC Dick Camp CC is the tt vice presi rr dent of
Foundation Museum Operati rr ons at the Nati NN onal Museum of the tt
Marine Cor CC ps r . A frequent rr Leatherneck contributor, he also has
written several books, including Leather tt neck Legends e , Bat-
tleship i Arizonas Marines at War and Iwo Jima Recon. His
Devil Dogs at Belleau Wood WW was published in May 2008. His
books kk are available from ff the MCA CC booksto kk res or online at
www.marineshop.net.
Above: Cpl Glenn McDole reunites with his mother, Dessa, after ff his
daring escape from Palawan.
Inset: In 1952, the remains of 123 of those murdered at Palawan
were buried in a group gravesite at Jefferson Barracks National
Cemetery in St. Louis. Glenn McDole remembered his comrades
during a 4 Dec. 2003 ceremony at the gravesite.
By Steve McQueen as told to
LtCol Jack Lewis, USMCR (Ret)
Illustrations by Micheal T. Hollingsworth
T
he forest-green amphibious tractor
was pitching in the heavy seas like
an unbroken bronc poisoned on lo-
coweed, dd its several tons of metal riding
cork-like on the incoming tide. Half
frozen, I tried to shout instructions to
the three men clinging desperately to
the top of the foundering vehicle, but
I knew they couldnt hear me over the
pounding surf and the sounds of my mm
crafts ff engines.
A giant wavea wall of water at
least a dozen feet highcrashed down
upon the tracked amphib where I clung
like a crab that was avoiding the boiling
pot. It was like being hit by a train. The
force of the water and the frigid temper-
atu tt re uu drew the tt breath tt out of me, the tt shock
making it impossible to move. And in that
moment, I knew fear.
Shocked into numbness by the icy bath,
I gasped, dd laboring to breathe, the world
going cockeyed, as the tractor rose and
fell, the nose tilted downward, dd the whole ww
vehicle diving beneath the surface aft ff er
the breaker had passed to crash upon the
shore in a white, frosty tt spray aa of salt water.
My mind was racing, desperation seeking
to take aa control, as I realized that even with
the heav aa y arctic clothing I was wearing,
I couldnt dd hold out in the tt subfre ff ezing
temper mm atures for long. Already dd my mm
fingers were ww numb, without feeling,
and my reactions were sluggish.
The three Marines huddled
atop the tt amph aa ibious tank were ww
wet to the bone, gasping for
breath, starting to freeze ff in
the Labrador cold. I knew
that aa if I were going to rescue
them, it would have to be
now. ww With the incoming tide,
the breakers were growing
in height and forceany nn one
of themcould sweep the tt men
from their precarious perch.
Half froz ff en and weighted down ww
by the heavy waterlogged cloth tt -
ing, they tt wouldnt stand a chance
The CAST-IRON COFFIN
The Late Actor Steve McQueens Make-Believe Film Adventures Were Never as
Dangerous as His Days as a Marine PFC!
30 LEATH AA ERNECK JUNE 2009
in the wild pounding surf. And my mm own
situation was no better.
I clutched the heavy manila line in my mm
stiffened ff fin ff gers, but my arms had the
composition of molten lead as I tried to
scream above the sounds of my tractors
straining engine.
Catch the line! I s
my intent, but there w
understood. Only half
I could see the tt fear, ff the
in the eyes of the thre
the iron of the machin
Below me, in the i
phibious tractor, my a
other private first ff clas
struggling with the co
bring our lumbering
swamped tank, yet fea
crest of a wave, aa he mi
top of the three men.
Angrily, yy I swore at
teering for this mission
the Marine Corps had
ophy: Never volunte
dered. Youll YY die soon
What was I trying
myself the question a
rise and fall of the craf
mounted. That I was a
erty in NewYork mea
Still cursing myself,
bridge the rushing wat
and me, feeling ff the icy
me.
It was 1949 and I w
of the units of the Sec
sion out of Camp Lej e
had been selected to p
scale test and evaluati
equipment and techn
waters off the coast of
At the moment, I wa g
called ill repute with the officers and non-
commi mm ssioned officers. Private First rr Class
Step e hen Terre TT nce McQue MM en, Serial
Number 649015, United States Ma-
rine Corps. CC Goof Off First Class.
That was me!
And now I was trying to play hero
to make up for it, all because Id been
caught swiping food out of the ships
galley during the trip north. We had
been promised a liberty in New Yor YY k
on the way aa back from the exercise, but
that had ended for ff me when I had been
caught!
McQueen, youre an eight-ball! War-
rant Offi ff cer Reagan had declared when I
had been hauled before him fo ff r repri-
mand. (Reagan wasnt his real name, but
thatll do for this story.) yy He was a hard-
crusted old-timer who had worked his
way up the promotion ladder. A stern man
with a hawk aa -like face, he didnt take non-
sense from his menand especially not
from me!
This is a good outfit ff except for you!
he snarled. Its the likes of you that give
an organization a bad name. Consider
yourself restricted until further notice.
y p p
dont know. I suppose I had heard stories
of how tough the Corps was and consid-
ered it some sort of challenge. If tha tt t we ww re
the reason, I had come off second-best up
to now.
I had left my mm home in Missouri when
most kids were thi tt nking about high school
proms and aa footba t ll game aa s. Heading south, tt
I signed on a tramp freighter and ended
up on a beach in South America. Out of
money, I nearly starved before Id been
able to find another tt berth tt on a ship bound
for New Orleans.
Aft ff er that came a lot of odd jobs in-
cluding a stint at a lumber camp in Canada
and a summer with a carnival in the Mid-
g
take part in the tt exerci xx se was gathered tt from
all over the tt Eastern rr seaboard. Our uu unit was
loaded on board a lumbering LST
(landing ship tank), the amphibious
tra tt ctors being driven dd ont nn o the tt tank deck
and blocked kk there before ff we sailed up
the coast to drop dd anchor in NewYor YY k rr s
East River, waiting for the rest of the
force to gather. When the Navy arma-
da was at full stren tt gth tt , we ww had steamed
out through the Narrows in combat
formation.
I had lost track of the days we had
been at sea, when the General Quar-
ters alarm sounded uu and we gathe tt red on
the tank aa deck, receiving a qu qq ick briefi ff ng
from our offi ff cers and staff ff NCOs. The
low frozen outline lying off our bow was
Labrador, and we were preparing for our
landing.
The doors of our fl ff at-bottomed ship
were swung open, and there was a roar of
Still cursing myself,
I jumped, trying to bridge
the rushing water between the
tank and me, feeling the
icy spray that blinded me.
Riding ashore in an old amphibian tractor
g g g
the water. The skipper of the LST had
moved his vessel as close to shore as pos-
sible, since the flat bottom allowed it to
float in only ll a few feet of water. However,
the coast was marked with sandbars that
rose erratically and disappeared each day
with the shifting tides.
The ram aa p mm was resting on one of the sub-
merged sandbars. This I could see, but we
were still nearly a hundred yards from ff
shore. Under the knife ff -edged wind, the
sea was roaring in upon the beach with
expr xx ess-train force, breake aa rs crashing ove oo r
themselves as they broke upon the sands
closer to shore.
The tracs of the tractor caught in the
sub u merg r ed sand for ff an aa instant aa , as we tilted
off the ramp, then came the sensation of
falling. There was a strange, fearful feel-
ing in th tt e pit of my stomach as the viewing
panel in front of my eyes turned green
with tt seaw aa ater and I knew the forward end
of the vehicle was underwater, diving
downward.
Icy seawater poured in around us, in-
vading every crack, and the bilge pumps
throbbed to clear the water before it could
kill the engines. Then, suddenly, yy we were
bouncing on the surface, the machines
tracs digging water with their bucket-like
scup uu pers, and we were clear of immediate
danger.
The amphibious tractor had long been
called the Cast-Iron Coffi ff n, a term
drea dd med up uu by the Marines wh ww o operated
them with a mixture of respect and fear.
The machine had been developed by the
Marine Corps to deliver men and sup-
plies ashore under enemy fire with tt a min-
imum number of casualties.
But the greatest dread for the drivers
and the men huddled inside during a
landingwas becoming stalled in heavy
seas. As long as there was powe oo r from the
engines, the tractor would remain afloat
and the driver could maneuver. But once
she lay aa dead in the water, she was easily
swamped. And a man didnt stand much
of a chance of getting out in spite of the
life belts that were standard gear for crew
and passengers.
As the tra tt cs of my vehicle groun uu d up uu on
sand again, then caught hold with a for-
ward lurch, I looked out through that tiny nn
steel-enclosed glass slit, taking directions
from the beachmaster who was directing
me to a parking spot.
It was late afternoon, and the sun was
falling rapidly behind a scud of nasty-
looking clouds. Wet, I felt the raw, ww cutting
wind and shook violently with the cold.
Other tank aa s and aa amtracs were drawn up
on the beach as we leaped down, oo hugging
the bulky kk parkas about us, but the other
drivers and crews were not with their ma-
chines. Instead, they were gathered in a
tight knot on the beach. There was stiff- ff
ness, almost expectancy, in the way most
of them stood, dd and the three of usthe
corporal, the assistant driver and Itrot-
ted toward aa the group uu . It took only a glan aa ce
to see what had happened.
Nearly 100 yards out, one of the tanks,
driven off ff the LST and onto a sandbar,
had tipped over oo the edge of the shelf and
was foundered in deep water. There were
waves crashing over it, ice forming on the
metal, as three men inside fought to get
out, pushing up thro tt ugh the open hatch in
the top of the squat form. Their clothing
was dark with tt salt water as a long breaker
hit, almost kn kk ocking one of the men off his
perch. The others dragged him back to
temporary safe ff ty, yy then began signaling
frantically for help. Even at that distance,
I could see the fear in their faces, the ice
that was beginning to stiffen their clothes.
They cant last out there more than 15
A long breaker hit, almost knocking one of the men off
his perch. The others dragged him back to temporary
safety, then began signaling frantically for help.
minutes, a Navy corpsman muttered.
It was Gunner Reagan who turned to
glare over the group, face white beneath
his usual red sunburn, eyes squinting.
OK, I need some volunteers, he rasped.
Who feels ff lucky kk today?
Hes looking at me, I thought. It may
have been my imagination, but it seemed
his gaze paused on me for a moment be-
fore it swung on. He was asking me to
get drowned.
I cant order any man to go out
there, Reagan went on, but you
heard what the corpsman said. They
can only hang on for a few minutes.
Ill go!
I should have aa been looking the other
way, yy pretending it was someone else
who had spoken up. Instead, dd I took a
step for ff ward.
OK, McQueen. Reagan aa nodded. Any-
one else? He cant do it alone!
The corporal and my assistant driver
stepped forward to stand beside me. I
wondered if they were experiencing the
same thoughts as I. Before Reagan could
say anything more, the three of us turned
and ran for ff our amphibious tractor.
As we turned over the engine, we
shouted back and fo ff rth fo ff rming a plan.
Actual tt ly, yy it was no plan at all. It was more
a discussion of the dangers of getting too
close, rising on a wav aa e to come crashing
on the three freezing men. I found a coil
of line in th tt e bottom of th tt e tr tt actor and ex-
plained that wed have to get in close and
help them across.
I was at the controls as we hit the edge
of the water and bucked into it, diving di-
rectly into the huge breakers that crashed
over us. As we rose on the tt crest of the tt next
one, it seemed as though some unseen
god jerked it out fr ff om under us. The nose
of the craft tilted down, and we dived be-
neath the surface, then slowly righted our
position only to have the same thing
happen, again.
We WW all knew we had to get as close to
the sinking tank as possible, pass a rope
across and snub the tt tw tt o ww vehicles together,
then get the tt thr tt ee Marines across the tt wate aa r
as fas ff t as possible. It was growing dark
rapidly and woul ww d be only minutes before
we wouldnt be able to see what ww we were
doing. By then the mission probably
wouldn dd t matter, as the tt thre hh e couldn dd t pos-
sibly hold out against the freezing water
much longer.
Wit WW h tt a line in my han aa d, dd I qui qq ckly looped
it in a hitch aroun uu d one of the tt heav aa y hand-
forged cleats bolted to the armor plating.
I tried to ignore the water that beat about
me as we edged close to the tank, now
only a small island of metal in the heav-
ing, threshing waters. It was growing
smaller with each new wave of the in-
coming tide.
After shouting at the three and getting
no reaction, I knew the only course was
to cross to the tank itself. Standing there,
the cold cutting at my flesh like devils
knives, I waited until our amtrac, engines
still racing, was high on the crest of a
wave and I was looking upon the half-
frozen men.
As I leaped, dd the amtrac seemed to drop
away from me. Thinking I was going to
land short, I yelled at just the thought of
landing in the deep water. rr Instead, I lan aa ded
on hands and knees on the cold icy steel,
clawing for ff a handhold, dd as the three
grabb a ed me, brought out of their lethargy
of fear for an instant.
Fingers tightening with numbness in-
side my gloves, I lashed the line around
one of the cleats on the tank, wavin aa g to
my crew chief who ww was watching and re-
laying instructions to the assistant driver
who was at the controls.
The assistant driver shifted the gears
into nn neutr uu al, halting the speed of the water- rr
digging tracs. I prayed the weight of the
vehicle would not part the line. We WW
could never cross back to the tractor
with the tracs in motion. Just touching
one could mean losing a leg!
The corporal bent, tapping the un-
seen amtrac driver on the shoulder, and
the tractor was maneuvered still closer
to where we clung. The vehicle rose
on a wave, towering over us, then
crashed downward, only inches away. aa
The steel treads scraped the side of th tt e
tank with tt a tortured screech. The tank
shuddered, sinking more deeply into the
water.
Cowering as I was, I pulled up more
slack and tied off the line in the same in-
stant that the crew chief signaled the
driver to kill the power.
Urging the fi ff rst man up with curses
and helping him across the few feet ff of
King of Cool
Marine Steve McQueen
One of the hottest movie talents
of the 1960s and 70s, Steve Mc-
Queen was known for his tough
guy personality. Trouble followed
him from an early age as he de-
veloped a reputation as a juvenile
delinquent and was sent to Cali-
fornia Junior Boys Republic, a re-
form school, by his mother. He
left school after the ninth grade,
taking odd jobs until he was 17
when he joined the Corps.
Never So Few, The Magnif-
icent Seven, The Great Escape,
The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt,
Papillon and The Towering In-
ferno are a few of his movie hits.
In a July 1960 Leatherneck ar-
ticle, Colt, Mares Leg & Der-
ringer, Jack Lewis quoted McQueen, Until I enlisted in the Corps, I was a
pretty undisciplined kid, but that hitch did a lot to teach me responsibility and
to straighten out my life.
After leaving active duty in 1950, McQueen tapped his GI Bill for money to
study acting in New York City. Bit parts followed acting school until he was
signed in 1958 to play Josh Randall, a bounty hunter in the television Western,
Wanted: Dead or Alive. His breakthrough role was in the 1959 movie, Never
So Few. From there, it was upward until he was felled at the early age of 50
by mesothelioma, a form of lung cancer.
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tractor with the tracs in motion.
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choppy, boiling water, I kept eyeing the
line, expecting it to part or for the tractor
to come crashing down upon us with the
next falling wave.
The first man, in a state of shock and
exhaustion, hardly able to mov oo e, stepped
gingerly across the tracs of the amphib,
and the corporal, as wet as the rest of us
now, grabbed him beneath the shoulders
and half shoved oo him down into the inte-
rior of the vehicle.
The next man didnt need as much help,
and I concentrated on the third Marine. A
teenager, he clung, half conscious, to the
top of the tank, choking on the water that
crashed over oo him.
Hauling him to his wobbly fe ff et, I clung
to him and the line, getting him over the
tracs, while the corporal reached out to
get his hands aa on the tt mans coat. aa Rising and
falling with the waves, fearful of catch-
ing a foot ff between the two ww metal monsters,
I shov oo ed the man across to the corporal,
then helped lower him to the deck below.
By now it was totally dark, and once
inside, I fell into an exhausted heap be-
hind the drivers seat while the other two
Marines maneuvered the vehicle toward
the shore.
Minutes later, the rear of the tractor
scraped on hard ground, then the ramp
was dropped. The Navy aa corpsman came
in with his bag and knelt among the three
men, checking them qui qq ckly, yy then forcing
small bottles of medicinal brandy be-
tween their lips.
You got another bottle of that stuff?
I asked wearily, and he dug into his pack
to toss me one. As I was trying to remove
the tt cap with numb uu fingers, Gu GG n uu n nn er Reagan
kn kk elt beside me in the light of a fla ff shlight
and took th tt e bottle, ripping aw aa ay the tt seal.
Good job, McQueen, he said shortly,
as he handed me the brandy. If you de-
cide to reenlist, let me know. Ill recom-
mend you for Officer ff Can aa didates School!
I shook my mm head, grinning at him. Not
me. I only have a few months to go, then
Im off ff to NewYork. YY
I dont reckon youll have to wait that
long, boy, yy he said. You YY ll be going ashore
with the rest of us when we get back
there.
The next gulp of brandy tasted down-
right good!
Edit dd or tt s note: tt Leath tt erneck contr tt ibuting
editor Jack Lewis was a machine-gunner
in WW II and a combat correspondent s in
the Korean and Vietnam wars. He wrote
this account fro ff m an interview he did
with Steve McQueen. Lewis has written
more rr than tt 6,000 short stories and maga a -
zine articles and more than tt 20 books. He
resides rr in Hawaii, i high above the tt crash rr -
ing surf, which continues to motivate his
creati rr ve writing styl tt e.
Getting men and equipment ashore and in the correct area ffor onward operations during the extremes of of
wwinter challenged even the most experienced beachmaster.
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Above: To TT determine the exact stance the model makers must create,
experts sta ss ge gg the scene and photograph the models fromvario vv us angles.
Using the Ford Model T truck that will appear in the museum tableau,
Sgt RichardTack TT poses as the wounded Marine reclining inside the truck
while Sgt gg Wangler WW administers first aid. Sgt gg Drew Daily, standing in for
Sgt Eduardo Maldonado who actually posed for the figure, unloads
ammunition from the truck.
Capt William G. Heiken was select
1stLt Bernard L. Smith flying a Cu
Marine Corps Aviation Association
Year in 2008, matched Smiths he
replace Heikens face with Smiths
and the planes control wheel, whi
Above, from left: ff Sgt Mark T. Wangler gets an earful from model artist Shawn Hensley of Taylor Studios, who applies alginate during the early stage of creating a
mold. Once his face ff is covered, Wangler gives a thumbs-up to assure Hensley and lead model artist Marc Dams that hes doing well before they apply plaster bandages.
Although it looks uncomfortable, Wangler said the process did not bother him. It took nearly five hours to cast the molds for his entire body.
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By Mary D. Karcher
I
n late June 1918, a Ford Model T
truck dodged German shelling and
machine-gun barrages along a
rural road near a French village. As
the truck came to a halt, Marines
jumped out and got to work. One
helped a wounded Marine get up on
the back of the truck and tended to
his wounded leg. Another Marine
quickly began to unload boxes of
supplies and ammun uu ition, which were
so badly needed by weary leather-
necks waging a fierce battle against
German troops.
This scene from Wor WW ld War WW I is
one of the exhibits being created for
the National Museum of the Marine
Corps expansion, scheduled to open
in spring 2010.
During February, yy exhibit fabrica-
tors from Taylor Studios Inc., based
in Rantoul, Ill., traveled to Marine
Corps Base Quantico, Va., VV to create
12 life-s ff ized models for ff three new
galleries portraying early Marine
Corps history from 1775 to 1918.
Like all the Marines depicted in the
museum, uu cur uu rent nn and aa former Mari aa nes
posed fo ff r the figur uu es. Curator aa s wa ww nte aa d
to select leathe tt rnecks who ww se experi-
ences in the Corps match aa ed the figu gg re uu s
for whi ww ch they posed, lending even
more realism to the tt lifelike creations.
The exhibits in the museum are
careful ff ly selected and designed in
the most intricate detail du dd r uu ing an ar-
duous planning process. The Marine
Corps story is the most important as-
pect of this process, according to Ex-
hibit Chief Chuck Girb r ovan. Once
the curators identify the Corps im-
portant historical events, they select
Marines Become
The Face of History
Leathernecks Portray the Past
To Create Museum Exhibits
ted to pose as Marine Corps aviation pioneer
rtiss A2 aircraft in 1913. Heiken, who received the
ns Alfred A. Cunningham Award for Aviator of the
ight and weight measurements. Model artists will
s visage for the exhibit. Note the metal arm supports
ich help the model maintain proper positioning.
In the final stage of creating the mold, Curt Walker, WW Taylor Studios, reinforces the front half of Sgt Wanglers
leg casts with fiberglass matte.
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artifa ff cts fromthe Corps collection that
support the tt story and add the cast-resin
figures to provide the human element.
With limited gallery space and the dy-
namic stories of the Corps, the chal-
lenge of this process is considerable.
Museum visitors marvel at the au-
thenticity of the 73 cast figure ff s that
current nn ly tell the Corps story. No detail
has been overlooked, from ff the drip-
ping sweat on the back of a shirtless
Marine gun crew fighting on a South
Pacific island to the bleeding wound
of an injured Marine under the care of
a corpsman. To create such realistic
figures requires patience on the part
of the models and efficient expertise
on the part of the model artists.
Each figure ff assumes a pose defined ff
by the task he is performing. The model
must hold the pose as model artists
quickly kk app aa ly an aa initial layer yy of alginate,
a blue moldable substance th tt at creates
th tt e surface layer of the mold. Once ap aa -
plied, the substance must be stabilized
with plaster bandages. Thus strengt tt h tt -
ened, dd the formcan be remov oo ed from ff the tt
model and fur ff ther treated to enable the
fabricators to make a polyester cast,
which becomes the cast for the figure. ff
The models are created in sections:
torso, legs, head and arms, all precise-
ly positioned. A full body figure can
require fo ff ur to five ff hours to compl mm ete.
In 2005 and 2006, Serg r eants nn Mark aa T.
Wangler Jr., Richard Tack and Eduar-
do Maldonado all served two tours of
duty in Iraq with 3d Battalion, Sixth
Marine Regiment, Second Marine Di-
vision, headquartered at MCB Camp
Lejeune, N.C. Their experience in Iraq
linked them to the scene of the three
Marines fighting in France in 1918.
Sgt Wangl aa er posed as the tt Marin rr e aid-
ing the wounded man on the Model T.
Wangler actually did administer aid to
Sgt Tack during a fi ff refight ff on a roof- ff
top in Iraq. Tack, who poses as the
wounded uu Marine aa on the truck, received
a gunshot wound to his leg just before
a dump trucktermed a VBIED, or
vehicle-borne improvised explosive
deviceexpl xx oded as it headed stra tt ight
toward the building they were on. In
the midst of the atta aa ck, Wangler drag rr ged
Tack to cover, providing buddy aid.
The third Mar aa ine in the vignette who
posed as the tt Marine unloading ammu-
nition fromthe truck is Sgt Maldonado,
who was ww part rr of the quick reaction for ff ce
that came to help Wangler and Tack TT
after the explosion.
Currently assigned to the museum,
these thre tt e Marines all enlisted at aa ab a out
the same time, graduated from boot
camp within weeks of each other and
now will be together tt for ff all time in the tt
WWI exhibit at the tt museum. As Chuck hh
Girbovan said, dd The people and ma-
chinery change, but the Corps values
still transcend the ages.
Editors note: Leatherneck would
like to express its gratitude to Marine
curat rr or tt Nei NN l Abelsm ll a and Exhibit Ch CC ief e
Chuck Girbovan for explaining fut ff ure
museum exhibits and the tt story r behind
the cast-resin figures ff .
For a slideshow illustrating the process
of creating the fgures, visit www.mca-
marines.org/ gg leatherneck/museumfgures
Who Are the New Marine Figures?
Pieces of the mold for a WW I combat Marine,
modeled by Navy vv Cross awardee SSgt Jeremiah
W.Workman, rest on a warehouse floor. The face
mold on the right appears to be convex, but is
actually concave.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Trian-
gle, Va., will open three new galleries next year: De-
fending ff the New Republic, depicting 1775-1865; A
Global Expeditionary Force, representing 1866-1916;
and Marines in World War I, portraying 1917-18.
Twelve fi ff gures are being cast for these three galleries,
some with true identities and others representing typi-
cal Marines of the time depicted:
Corporal John F. Mackie, Civil War WW Marine, awarded aa
first Marine Medal of Honor
First Lieutenant Bernard L. Smith, pilot of a
Curtiss A2 plane
King Armored Car crewman
Master Sergeant Will WW iam L. Browne, drum major fo ff r
The Presidents Own United States Marine Band
German machine-gun crew (two figures ff )
Floyd Gibbons, war correspondent for the
Chica CC go a Tri TT bune
WW I Marines in scene with Ford Model T truck
(three figures)
WW I combat Marine
Unnamed pilot in a Thomas Morse Scout biplane
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By Andrew Lubin
A
group of 31 journalists spent a
day aa at Marine Corps Base Quan-
tico, Va., Feb. 19, with many of
them gaining a new understanding of the
Marine Corps.
The day at Quantico was the final part
of a fel ff lowship program presented by the
University of Marylands Knight Center
for Specialized Journalism. The Knight
Center sponsors programs on topics of
current interest such as digital media, the
new economy, and politics and race. The
program that brought the journalists to
Quantico was U.S. Military: New Pres-
ident, New Outlook?
Peggy DeBona, acting director of the
Knight Center, and David Wood WW , dd The Bal- ll
timore rr Suns national security correspon-
dent, coordinated the days program with
Quantico public affairs officer Chuck
Jenks and The Basic School PAO, Major
Jeff ff re ff y Landis. The goal was to provide a
snapshot of a day in the life of a Marine
lieutenanta day that aa might hh include call-
ing in close air sup uu port to assist Mari aa nes in
enemy contact, martial arts, condu dd cting a
shura (meeting), or other counterinsur-
gency operations.
An experienced journalist, Woo WW d has
embedded with Marine units in Somalia,
Iraq andAfghani aa stan and has stron tt g views
on the military and the media. I wanted
to get our group out of the academic en-
vironment and into the real world of the
grunts, he explained. Most reporters
dont get out into the blue-collar world of
the senior enlisted and junior offi ff cers
where the real military rr experiences reside.
The group put together a program that
Journalists and Leathernecks:
Reporters Visit Quantico for a Day in the Life of a U.S. Marine
Maj J ff eff Landis (right)
helped coordinate the
vvisit with the Knight
Centers acting director,
Peggy DeBona.
Retired Marine Col George Dallas, Director, Center for
Advanced Operational Culture Learning, explains the Corps
cultural and linguistic training programs to visiting
Knight Center journalists. (Photo by LCpl Skyler Tooker)
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included watching the Artillery Instruct tt or
Battery conduct fire missions from ff the
calls for fire they received from lieuten-
ants in TBS, as well as watching helicop-
ters conducting close air support training
as the young officers practiced their 9-
line mission briefs to inbound aircraft.
The afternoon was spent at the General
Raymond G. Davis aa Center, headquarters
for the Marine Corps Combat Develop-
ment Command (MCCDC), meeting and
discussing the Marine Corps short-, me-
dium- and long-term views of possible
conflicts with senior planners such as
Colonel Steve Zotti, the director of the
Stra tt tegi aa c Vision Group; Jean Malone, Ma-
rine Corps Warfighting ff Lab; and retired
Marine Col George Dallas, who ww runs the
Corps Center for Advanced Operational
Culture Learning. The Center for Irregu-
lar War WW fare aa s Col Dan aa Kelly KK ended the day aa
for ff the tt jour uu nalists with a briefing on com-
bating irregular threats.
The Knight Center participants were
journalists with expertise in reporting
fro ff m confli ff ct areas. Th TT e Miami Herald
sent Carol Rosenberg, its international
and military affairs correspondent, who
has covered oo the Middle East from Cairo
and Jerusalem and was a Pulitzer Prize
co-winner in 2001.
Independent fi ff lmmaker Don North has
a long history of reporting from a combat m
zone that dates back to when he covered oo
the Marines in Khe Sanh and Hue City
for ABC News during the Vi VV etnam War WW .
Freelance photojournalist James Lee is a
Marine veteran who fought with First
Marine Division during Operation Iraqi
Freedom and later was awarded a Purple
Heart during the battle for Fallujah. Jim
Hanson spent 14 years in the Army mm (Spe-
cial Forces and Area Specialist Officer
Pacific ff Rim) befor ff e joining Web- WW based
Blackfive.net as its lead military writer,
while Carlos Hamann was once in the
Army, but is now an editor on th tt e English
desk for Agence France-Presse.
Captain Clarence Loomis artillery bat-
tery had been fi ff ring all morning as the
journalists arrived at the gunline, but he
took an aa opportun uu ity tt betwe tt en fi ff re missions
to explain the routine necessary to fire ff a
155 mm howi oo tzer. Loomis narrated while ww
a section chief, ff Sergeant William Mullen,
ran the gun crew through a dry-fire ff mis-
sion, and then Loomis answere ww d questions
that mostly concerned pow oo der charg r es and aa
types of artillery rounds.
With tt in a few minutes, Loomis received
a seven-round fi ff re mission, and as the
howitzers began to fire, Davi aa d Wood com-
mented, Most reporters dont have the
chance to get out in the field enough to
understand the weapons and tactics on
which they write.
Afte ff r leaving the artillery range, the
journalists were then taken to Range #7
AAbove: As part f of the
operational capabilities
demonstration, the
jjournalists watched the
firing of artillery. (Photo
by Andrew Lubin)
Left: Capt Clarence
Loomis (center) r explains
the separate loading
propellant and projectile
for the 155 mm howitzer.
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where they watched the Hueys and Co-
bras of Marine Light Attack Helicopter
Squ qq adron 775, a Reserve unit from John-
stown, Pa., practice close-in support as
they fired rockets and the 20 mm gun at
their designated targets.
The afte ff rnoon session began with re-
marks from Brigadier General Timothy hh
Hanifen, ff Deputy Commanding General,
MCCDC. BGen Hanifen welcomed the
journalists, spoke briefly about the pur-
pose of the Combat Development Com-
mand and promised full cooperation in
answering any questions. There is a dif- ff
ference between gotcha questions and
knowledgeable questions, and the Knight
Center journalists were asking the latter.
For example:
How do you balance between a hard
war and a soft war? Its our 3-block war
concept; were prepared to shoot, to do
humanitarian missions, and to provide se-
curity was the answer.
Is recruiting up because of the econ-
omy? mm No, there are always young men
and women who want to be Marines.
Your Marines carry 80 pounds of gear.
Isnt that too much? It might be; were
working hard to reduce their load.
And, dd finally, yy cant you use hi-tech to
defen ff d against IEDs [improvised oo explo-
sive devices]? Not really; you cannot
armor your way aa against ordnance. There
comes a time when you need to kill the
enemy. mm
All were good questions that earned
equally good, dd accurate answers.
The presentations fromCol Steve Zotti,
Jean Malone, Col George Dallas and Col
Dan Kelly elicited more questions, par-
ticularly with Zottis vision of regional
threats of particular interest. The previ-
ous day at the Pentagon, Majo a r General
John F. Campbell, USA, the deputy di-
rector of Regional Operations, J-3, The
Joint Staff, ff had said that piracy didnt
keep him awake nights, so the journal-
ists found it most interesting to see piracy
listed on the Marines threat board.
Being told that the Marine Corps listed
Mexico and Latin America as subjects of
potential future conflict earned the atten-
tion of the three journalists from border
states Califo ff rnia and Texa TT s, as did the ex-
planation that the Corps fol ff lows such
tr tt ends as crime, water stress, urban stress,
and the youth bulgethe concept that
count uu ri tt es with rapidly ll growing youth tt pop-
ulat aa ions have ramp aa ant aa unemployme yy nt nn lead-
ing to large groups of disaffected youths
who are susceptible to joining terrorist
groups or rebel factionsas factors that
will lead to the destabilization of a coun-
try or region.
It was ww refreshing to see that tt the tt Marines
are so forward-looking, said Jill Labbe,
deputy editoria rr l page editor for ff Fort rr Wo WW rth,
Texas Star-Tele rr gram e , and that five, 10,
15 years out, theyll be ready for either
traditional war or a counterinsurgency.
The final ff word on the day at Quantico
came from Blackfiv ff e.nets retired Army mm
Special Forces offi ff cer Jim Hanson: Its
interesting to see how Marines constantly
reinvent themselves. And theyre much
more open for discussions and questions
than the Army mm or the Air Force.
Editors note: Andrew Lubin author tt ed rr
the book Charl CC ie Battery: rr A Marine Ar- rr
tillery Battery r in Iraq, and, as an em-
bedded dd journalist, t writes about the war
from www. wwtheMilita ee ryObserver-O rr nPo PP int
.com. His HH next book, kk Keep Moving or
Die: Tas TT k Force Tarawa TT at An-Nasiriyah,
will be published this year. rr He HH was in
Afgh gg anistan with ETT 3-5 and Co A, BLT BB
1/6, 24th tt MEU.
Potential Instability & Conflict: 2009-2025
Utility of Naval Expeditionary MAGTFs
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Test Pilot Becomes First Marine
To Fly Joint Strike Fighter
On March 19 Major Joseph O.D.
Bachmann became the fir ff st Marine to
pilot the F-35 Lightning II fi ff ghter jet,
which is slated to become part of the
Corps aviation aa arsenal by 2012.
Bachmann, a test pilot with the Joint
Strike Fighter program, said the purpose
of the flight was to acquire experience
and become comfortable with the aircraft
so he can find any potential nn flaws or issues
that may need correctionesp nn ecially in
the short takeoff ff and vertical landing, or
STOVL, version of the aircraft.
The F-35 is a single-engine, single-seat,
multi-role, stealth-capable, fifth- ff genera-
tion supersonic strike fighter aircraft that
was developed by Lockheed Martins Joint
Strike Fighter program. They are produc-
ing three hh variants vv of the aircraft: the F-35A,
the conventional takeoff and landing vari-
ant; the tt F-35B, the STOVL OO variant, whic ww h
eventually will replace the tt Marine Corps
F/A-18 Hornet and AV-8B Harri aa er II, as
well as the EA-6BProwler; an aa d the F-35C,
the carrier variant, which will go to the
Navy. yy
The F-35 will be the Marine Corps
first stealth aircraft. When the F-35 gets
fielded, dd the rest of the world cant turn a
blind eye to our force being stealth, said
Bachm hh ann nn . [The enemy] wont ever know
were coming. Its awes aa ome.
Operation support cost also is reduced
with the F-35. According to Lockheed
Martin, the F-35B will prov oo ide unequ qq aled
multi-mission capabilities with a fraction
of the support required by other fighter
jets. This aircraft and its game-changing
capabilities are going to offer Marine and
joint for ff ce commanders on the fro ff nt lines
the most affo ff rdable and technologically
advanced fifth-generation aircraft in the
wor ww ld, said Lieute uu nant General George J.
Trautm aa an III, Marine Corps Deputy tt Com-
mandant for Avi AA ation.
Bachmann and his fello ff w Marine and
civilian aa test pilots will continue nn to fly ff , yy taxi
and use the simulator version of the aircraft ff
until they believe the aircraft is ready to
be fielded. They are currently working
with Lockheed Martin engineers to make
the necessary adjustments as production
continues. Doug Pearson, vice president
of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Te TT st Force,
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, nn
calls the F-35 an amazing piece of ma-
chinery. We WW are building an airplane that
will last 8,000 flight hours.
Were diligently worki rr ng to keep our
edge, Pearson said. God forbid we ever
hav aa e a maj aa or conflict, but uu if we do, we need
[this aircraft] and we need it to be swift.
Bachmann agrees that the most impor-
tant role of the aircraft ff is its benefit to the
Marine walking point in a combat zone,
when its dark, and the enemy mm is near.
For the Marine thats out on the front all
by himself, ff hes going to hav aa e a higher
level of protection behind him, he said.
Sgt Michael S. Cifuentes
DivPA, HQMC
Intramural Three-Gun Competition
Adds Excitement to Routine Shooting
Pumped up uu with adrenaline, Marines
and civilians fr ff om the National Capital
Region participated in the fir ff st intr tt amural
three-gun shooting competition at Weap WW -
ons Training Batt tt alion, Marine Corps rr Base
Quantico, Va., March 16-20.
The competition was open to anyone at
any level of proficiency as long as they
attended the training, said Chief Warrant WW
Offi ff cer 3 Michael Musselman, the battal-
ion gunner for WTBn. Marines ranking
from private first ff class to colonel showed
up to test their skills.
We WW realized a need fo ff r tactical shooting
capabilities, said Musselman, whe ww n asked
about the purpose of having this compe-
tition. All the run uu ni nn ng, mov oo ing an aa d shoot-
ing is based more on a combat skill set
where the target locations are unknown.
Competitors signed up in groups of four; uu
individuals were placed in a four ff -man
team, with close to 25 teams competing.
The first thr tt ee day aa s of the tt week consisted
of training for the shooters. Each shooter
was assigned one of the three days to re-
ceiv ii e training on the tt M4 car aa bi r ne, M9 serv-
ice pistol and the M1014 shotgun.
Afte ff r the training, shooters were as-
signed to one of the two days of the com-
petition. The match was broken into th tt ree
stages, testing speed, agility and accur uu acy
from various positions and distances to
the target.
I fel ff t motivated going through the
course, said Gunnery Sergeant Aaron
Bosch, one of the shooters with Range
Wethe Marines
Edited by Mara R. Rutherford
BA S E S , S T AT I ONS & V E T E RA NS
Maj Joseph Bachmann, a developmental test pilot for the F-35 Lightning II, stands in front of F-35AA-1 AA mo-
ments after his March 19 record-making flight as the first Marine to pilot the Lockheed Martin aircraft the
Corps is counting on to eventually replace its entire fighter, attack and electronic warfare fleet.
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Company, nn WTBn. It was fun just to come
out here and shoot. Bosch took the best
individual overall award, completing the
entire course with a time of 2:41.41.
Musselman hopes for another comp mm eti-
tion inAugust. The goal would be to host
a competition here in Quantico and open
it up nationally for Marines from ff other
units across the United States, he said.
The three-gun competition ended with
trophies being awarded aa to the top indi-
viduals and top teams with the fastest
times, but the competition was more than
just fun ff and games for the Marines in at-
tendance. As Musselman pointed out,
Every skill they learn here is transfer-
able to combat.
Competition Standings
Individual Awards
First Place best individual overall oo
award: GySgt Aaron Bosch, WTBn,
2:41.41
Second Place: Sgt Scott Weidling, WW
WTBn, 3:10.77
Third Place: Cpl Jason Cook,
WTBn, 3:16.08
TeamAwards
First Place: Headquarters Section,
Range Co, WTBn, 3:10.34
Second Place: Special Reactions
Team, Security Bn, 3:13.34
Third Place: Range Co,
WTBn, 3:23.08
Sgt Judith Carver
PAO, MCB Quantico, Va.
I MLG Leatherneck Receives
Women of the Year Award
Staff Sergeant Sarah E. Turner, train-
ing chief, Military Police Company, nn First
Marine Logistics Group, I Marine Expe-
ditionary Force, received one of the two
Enlisted Women of the Year YY awards pre-
sented by the Navy League of San Diego
during a ceremony at the Mission Valley
Marriott March 24.
I am honored to serve with such a
well-rounded Marine, said Captain John
B. Bowe, Commanding Offi ff cer, MP Co.
The aw aa ard is split into two brackets: a
junior enlisted division, pay aa grades E-5
and below; and a senior enlisted division,
E-6 and above. Individual commands
nominate candidates based on their ac-
complishments. A panel fro ff m the Navy aa
League narrowed down hundreds of can-
didates to 52 worthy hh applicants, but only
two went home with a cash prize and a
scholarship fr ff om National University, yy
along with a certifi ff cate of appreciation
and a plaque.
Turners experiences and accomplish-
Followed closely by a scoring official, a Marine sprints
to his next target during Weapons Training Battalions
first intramural three-gun competition March 20.
MARINE ROCKS TO NASHVILLE IDOL
VICTORYCpl Sean Castaneda, advisor,
Marine Advisor Team (MAT), Africa
Partnership Station (APS) Nashville,
sings his way to victory during Nashville
Idol 2009, a spin-off of TVs American
Idol, aboard USS Nashville (LPD-13)
March 13. Currently Nashville is
deployed in support of APS, an
international initiative developed by
Naval Forces Europe and Naval Forces
Africa that aims to work cooperatively
with U.S. and international partners to
improve maritime safety and security
on the African continent.
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proved her qualifications ff for the senior
enlisted Women of the Year award. With
23 military personnel under her author-
ity, yy she tackled the responsibility of a se-
curity forc ff e and convoy nn commander, a
position usually filled by an officer. ff
She truly cares about her Marines,
said First Lieutenant Elisa M. Barrios,
Executive Officer, ff MP Co. The first one
in and the last one out, shell get the job
done no matter what it takes.
After completing 33 logistics patrols
and six escort missions in excess of 3,000
miles, Turner safely returned her team ac-
cident free. She also organized the imme-
diate aa evacu ee ation of a casualty tt and aa assumed
the duties of training chief, ensuring all
of her Marines were mission ready.
The annu nn al Enlisted Women of the tt Year
award is one of the many ways the Navy
League recognizes Americas hard-work rr -
ing military personnel. There are a lot of
Marines out there [who] do hard work
and dont get recognized, said Turner. It
was good to see the command support
their Marines.
Cpl Whitney Brackett
Combat Correspondent, 1st MLG
Marines Promote Camaraderie
In Amazing Race on Okinawa
There may aa not have been a million-
dollar prize at stake, but that didnt stop
10 teams fro ff m Service Company, Com-
bat Logistics Regiment 37, Third Marine
Logistics Group, III Marine Expedi-
tionary Force, Camp Foster, Okinawa,
Japan, fro ff m competing in the Service
Compa mm ny Second Annual Amazing Race.
The competition, held March 13, was
based in name and format aa on the tt popular
reality TV show oo , ww The Amazing Race,
where contestants race around the world
stopping at several checkpoints and com-
pleting diffic ff ult tasks along the way aa .
Events for Service Cos version included
competition in grappling, pugil sticks,
volleyball, general Marine Corps knowl-
edge, basketba t ll, relay races, swimming
and, dd throughout it all, plenty of running.
Not only was it fun, but it was also
good for training. I dont think I have to
worry about PT for a wh ww ile, said Private
First Class Daniel S. Rosales, a legal spe-
cialist with Service Co and team leader
for Los Brown.
Before the race, each team leader was
given a sealed package containing clues
to their first checkp kk oint an aa d a time limit to
discover oo what ww it was. Although the teams
did not travel around the world like par-
ticipants in the TV series, they still were
challenged as they raced around Camp
Foster towing daypacks laden with uni-
forms and boots.
Teams accumulated points along the
way based on how they fared with the
challenges and how they placed in each
leg of the race. The team to reach the fin-
ish line with tt th tt e most accumu u lated points
was declared the winner.
The goal was to build camaraderie
and break down the barriers between dif- ff
ferent sections, said the event coordina-
tor, Gun G n nn ery Serge r ant aa Kristina D. Roberts,
an internal control auditor attached to the
III MEF disburs uu ing office. ff We wanted to
incorporate running, but we also wanted
to make it fun ff and enj n oyable for ff the
Marines.
Marines found their clues both on and
off base during the fiv ff e-hour competi-
tion, enduring the Marine Corps Combat
Fitness Test relay and the Medical Evac-
uation race as well as a final challenge
based on another popular TV show, Fear
Factor. Te TT ams whipped up disgusting
dishes that were consumed by members
of the other teams after they were judged
by Corporal Daniel R. Hodges, training
NCO for Service Co.
The Los Brown teams winning dish, a
concoction of salted shrimp, sardines,
jalapenos, chocolate cake, garlic and a
double-stacked burger, helped them earn
third place overall, behind team Chair-
borne in second place. Team TT members
from both teams received a cash prize
and a three-day aa weekend.
The winning team, Revenge of the
Nerds, snatched up fi ff rst place, a cash
CREW CHIEFS ENGAGE TARGETS DURINGAERIAL GUNNERY TRAININGCpl Scott Romeo, a crew
chief with Marine MediumHelicopter Squadron 166 (Reinforced), fres a .50-caliber heavy machine
gun from a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter as part of his training during the 11th Marine Expe-
ditionary Units Marine Air-Ground Task Force exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., March 29.
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a years worth of bragging rights.
It was a good race. It actually chal-
lenged the Marines mentally and physi-
cally. I was impressed, said Hodges. Id
like to see a third year of Amazing Race.
I believe it will become tradition for Serv-
ice Company. nn
LCpl Kentavist P. Brackin
PAO, MCB Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan
Quick Shots Around the Corps
Corpsmen Train Marines
To Be First-Responders
Corporal David A. Weikle, WW assigned to
the public affai ff rs office ff at II Marine Ex-
peditionary Force, reported that leather-
necks of 2d Battalion, Second Marine
Regiment, Second Marine Division based
out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., recently con-
ducted dd a combat lifesaver course to pre-
pare them to respond to the tt traumatic and
oftentimes life-threatening inj n uries they
may aa see on the front lines.
The four-day aa course utilized a variety
of scenarios to tr tt ain Mar aa ines, ranging fr ff om
care for heat casualties and treatment for
shock, to hemorrhage control and triage
on the battlefi ff eld. Classes were followed
by practical application and testing to en-
sure tha tt t Marines retained the tt ir newly ac-
quired knowledge. One such test came
after the casualty assessment class.
Petty tt Offic ff er Third Class Kyle KK Meiborg, r
a hospital corpsman, created a scenario
for each Marine so th tt ey would think nn about
how to respond in a real situation. Lives
are at stake, Meiborg explained. You YY
cant affo ff rd to slip up and make stupid
mistakes.
Marines came aw aa ay from the course
with hands-on experience and renewed
confi ff dencepa rticularly important as
they prepare for a deployment oo in support
of Operation Endurin uu g Freedom. The bat-
talion is set to train as many combat life-
save aa rs as possible before they depart later
this year.
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Att AA ention, all units! Be on the lookout for an
intoxicated highway construction worker. Last seen
setting out traff ff ic cones, westbound near mile marker 62.
Submitted by
Former Cpl Max Roark
Knoxv xx ille, Tenn TT .
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Nathan R. Johnson, LCpl
Jesus E. Riojas and PFC
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To the U.S. Marines
By Gen Carl E. Mundy Jr., USMC (Ret)
As CMC, Gen Carl E. Mundy Jr. participated in numerous ceremonial events like the D-Day commemoration in Portsmouth, England, in 1994. Here he is pictured
accepting Honors during the commissioning ceremonies for USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in October 1993.
A D-Day Salute
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s the 65th anniversary aa of D-Day
is upon us, Im reminded of a
signific ff ant salute to U.S. Ma-
rines that occurred during the 50th
anniversary.
Several ee months nn before the tt comme mm m-
orative ii events in the United Kingdom
and on the beaches of Normandy, I re-
ceived a call from my mm British counter-
part, the Commandant General Royal
Marines. Major General Robin Ross
advised me that his Corps had been
given responsibility for ff one of the more
colorful events of the commemoratio aa n.
It was to be conducted on the green
overlooking the British D-Day memo-
rial with Portsmouth harbor r as the
backdrop in which the international
armada of warships would be at an-
chor before ff getting underway to cross
the English Channel.
In addition to thousa tt nds aa of veterans,
16 heads of state of the nations who ww par- rr
ticipated in Operation Overlord would
be in attendance accompanied by thei tt r
ministers of defens ff e, chiefs of service,
and commanders of all major forma-
tions, which had been part rr of the D-Day aa
landing still in existence. For the Uni-
ted States, this meant President and
Mrs. William WW Clinton, nn Secretary aa of De-
fense Wil WW liam Perry, yy the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, ff and aa commanders of theAmer- rr
ican divisions, air corps elements and
Navy forces whose colors were still
active. These and their allied counter-
parts would number almost 200 gen-
erals and admirals together with their
defense ff ministers and heads of state.
Attendance at the event was expected
to be 250,000 persons.
MajG a en Ross went on to describe
the event as a Drumhead Ceremony, yy
one of those stunning exhibitions of
military aa pageantry tt in which the British
excel. The ceremony hailed from an-
cient nn times and involved the tt creatio aa n of
an ad hoc altar around which the for-
mations of troops about uu to go into nn battl aa e
were formed. Their regimental battle
colors were ceremoniously laid on the
altar, and a religious service blessing
the formations tt and their colors followed.
In more modern times, the drums of a
regimental or division band were used
to form the altar after the tro tt op forma-
tions were paraded into line. Thus, the
term, Drumhead Ceremony.
The Commandant General contin-
ued that the ceremonial units would be
made up of the Band of the Royal Ma-
rines, a large ceremonial platoon of
Royal Marines, and a fo ff rmation of
massed colors of all participati aa ng units.
Carl, he concluded, dd I wan aa t nn to ask you yy
for ff a ceremonial platoon of U.S. Ma-
rines to be included in the ceremony.
I responded that his request was a
great honor, but uu reminded him tha tt t ab-
sent a few Marine detachments on the
U.S UU . capital ships in the tt landing, Amer- rr
ican Marines had not playe aa d a majo a r
part in the invasion, and that he might
be bett tt er served to get a U.S. Arm rr y mm unit.
His response was firm: This is going
to be a Marine Corps event, and I want
your Marines alongside mine. Wit WW h-
out furth ff er discussion, I assured him
that we would provide oo the platoon.
Colonel Pete Metzger, commanding
26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was
to be emb m arked kk in the amphi mm bious ships
of the U.S. Nav aa ys D-Day Fleet 94,
the U.S. contingent of warships in the
international armada. The MEU was
tasked to provi oo de the ceremonial pla-
toon, and Col Metzger, rr being a former
Mari rr ne Barracks Washington, 8th tt &I
officer, saw to it that a platoon was
for ff med, outfitted in blue dress uni-
forms, and drilled to the perfection ex-
pected of an 8th & I formation.
The ceremony was one day prior to
the actual D-Day anniversary, and 5
June 1994 was a perfect day in Ports-
mouth, England, with blue skies, calm
waters in the harbo r r, and a crowd of
patriotic attendees that not only met
the 250,000-persons estimate, but had
to be constrained to that number. The
occasion was high dress with mili-
tary atte tt ndees from the nations in thei tt r
most formal, bemedaled unif uu orm ff s. The
official ff party, composed of heads of
state, wa ww s seated on an aa elev ee ate vv d platf aa o ff rm
fla ff nked on either side by bleachers
seating we uniform ff ed military atten-
dees. At the appointed time, the Ma-
rine band stru tt ck up uu martial music and, dd
fo ff llowed by the two ceremonial pla-
toonsRoyal Marines leading and
U.S. Marines in trail with massed reg-
imental colors betwee tt nma rc aa hed onto
the expanse of green before the digni-
taries and formed the line of troops.
Drummers fr ff om the band then
moved forward, dd detached their drums
and formed the ceremonial altar. The
massed color bearers then moved sin-
gle-file ff to the altar where ww they draped
their colors and retired back into for-
mation. A movi oo ng sermo rr n wa ww s then de-
livered by the Archb hh ishop of Canter-
bury reminding all in attendance of
the significance of this day, yy 50 years
ago, remembering the fallen, and ac-
knowledging the array aa of colors that
had led the formations into battle.
At the conclusion of the religious
ceremony, to the continuing strains of
pomp and circumstance music by
the Marine band, dd the color bearers re-
covered their colors and returned to
the mass fo ff rmat a i tt on. Drummer mm s marc aa hed
forward to recover their drums and
moved back into ranks. The band then
reversed position from the right to the
left, left of the line of troops, to lead
the formation past the reviewing plat-
form and off the fie ff ld. This placed the
platoon of U. UUS. Marines as the lead el-
ement in the column of troops.
The drum maj a or raised and then
dropped his mace to commence the
march-off, ff and the band and column
of troops stepped off to the strains of
The Marines Hymn. I was caught
by surp uu rise by bb this gracious tri tt b ii ute from
the Royal oo Marines and, turning to my mm
British counterpart, said, Robin, the
tradition of my mm Corps is to stand for
its hymn, hh and I must do so.
As I stood, MajG a en Ross came to
attention beside me. Noting the move-
ment behind him, Secretary of Defense
Bill Perry turned and, seeing the two
of us standing, followed suit. Within
moments, undoubtedly ll wonderin rr g wh ww y, hh
every allied offi ff cer in the bleachers
rose. Queen Elizabeth II, noting the
offi ff cers rising on either side of the
platform rr , stood up, prompt mm ing the other
15 heads of state also to stand.
It was a moment in history: 250,000
spectators and 16 heads of state stand-
ing as a proud platoon of U.S. Ma-
rineseach an inch taller than he had
been moments befo ff restepped off ff
the field ff to the strains of their hymn. hh
Editors note: General rr Mundy MM is ii the tt
30th Commandan dd t of o the Ma MM rine Corps. pp
The band and column of troops stepped off to the
strains of The Marines Hymn. I was caught by surprise by
this gracious tribute fromthe Royal Marines.
JACK HINSONS ONE-MANWAR: WW A Civil War Sniper.
By To TT m C. McKenney. Published by Pelican Pub-
lishing Co. 400 pages. Stock #1589806409.
$24.26 MCA Members. $26.95 Regular Price.
Jack Hinsons One-Man War WW , written
by Lieutenant Colonel Tom C. McKen-
ney, USMC (Ret), is the incredible story
of a Southern civilian sniper operating
during the American Civil War. Master-
fully told, but difficult ff to research, LtCol
McKenney has successfully ff brought to
light this poignant tale of a grief-stricken
mans need for revenge.
Jack Hinson, who was approaching 60
years old, was a successful ff farmer near
the Tennessee-Ke KK ntucky kk border and a de-
voted fami ff ly man. He was known as one
of that areas leading citizens, until the
dogs of war came calling. At fi ff rst, and
as did many nn far ff mers of that tumultuous
period, dd Hinson attempted to stay neutral.
In early winter 1862, Ulysses S. Grant
brought his gunboat-supported army to
the walls of Fort Donelson on the Cum-
berland River. During the following bat-
tle Hinson road the lines and offered his
eyewitness intelligence to both armies,
and one to Grant himself. ff However, his
slim-to-none hopes of staying neutral
would abruptly change.
Like many oth tt er communities through-
out the contested South, the times of reg-
ular combat quickly turned into irregular
guerrilla warfar ff e. Attracting semi-mili-
tary for ff ces and countless fr ff eebooters, the
ar aa ea residents witnessed innumerable acts
of inhuman cruelty and injustice. May-
hem reigned upon the families living in
this once peaceful and prosperous land.
On one horrific day aa a Union cav aa alry
troop appeared at the tt Hinsons door. rr They
had cap aa tur uu ed two of Jacks boy oo s. The boys, oo
caught with tt hunting rifles, had been taken
for suspected guerrillas and were sum-
marily ll executed. Identified as Jacks sons,
the patrols lieute uu nan aa t ordered his sergeant aa
to impale the boys oo decapitated heads on
the Hinsons front gateposts.
After the family buried their childrens
remains, Hinson swiftly turned his atten-
tion to exacting terrible vengeance. Hin-
son fr ff eed his slav aa es, mov oo ed his famil aa y ll we ww st,
and carefully ove oo rsaw the manufactur tt e of
a specially crafted sniper rifle ff . Certain
that his surviving family was safe, he ini-
tiated his highly personalized war of ret-
ribution. McKenney writes, Whatever
the details, the Federals had sown ww the wind, dd
and for the tt rest of the war, they tt woul ww d reap
the whirlwind.
Hidden deep in Hinsons Scottish her-
itage resided the impulse for blood and
retri tt bution. The first person Hinson hunt uu ed
down was the hated Union lieutenant; his
second kill was the sergeant who ww seemed
to take aa delight in impaling the tt boys heads
on the familys gateposts.
Moving oo freely throughout the wooded
hills, Hinson continued his unique brand
of warfare. He set up a camp at the base
of what ww is now known as Jacks Ridge,
overlooking the northern flo ff w oo ing Te TT n-
nessee River. ii There, at a bran aa ch known oo as
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Chronology of the American Revolution is another excellent historical
refer ff ence work by Marine veteran Bud Hannings. He has a way aa of making his-
tory come to life even when ww telling the reader what happened chronologically.
His day-b aa y-day account of military and political events, written in the present
tensefrom the early beginnings of unrest in the Colonies, through Lexing-
ton and Concord and up to the reduction of the victorious Continental Army to
a single regiment in 1784is without peer.
Hannings holds forth ff on our Revolution in 546 pages, complete with superb
period illustrations and maps. Covered in detail are the movements of not only
the Continental Army and Navy, aa but also the Marines, who have aa not been com-
prehensively covered in other sources.
The book is highly recommended and a great referenc ff e source for all students
of history. Historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, Research is endlessly se-
ductive. ii Hannings book demonstrates why. ww Readers can browse the fascinating aa
facts listed as they happened, dd to gain a picture of the time and a better under-
standing of the events and why hh they occurred.
It is being sold at the reference (hardcover) book price, $125.00, and is avail-
able from ff the publisher, McFarland & Company nn Inc., Box 611, Jefferson, ff NC
28640, (800) 253-2187, www.mcfarlandpub ww .com. (ISBN: 9780786429486)
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Sesame Street Helps Families
Cope With Life-Altering Change
Thre hh e years aa after the launch of its Talk,
Listen, Connect nn (TLC) initiative, Sesame
Workshop premiered its newest film,
Coming Home: Military Families Cope
With Change, at sneak previews across
the country and on its April 1 release on
Publ u ic Broadcasting Service.
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit edu-
cational group that produces Sesame
Street, also screened its latest 30-minute
special at the Pentagon, where William aa J.
Lynn III, deputy secretary aa of defen ff se; Eric
K. Shinseki, secretary of veterans affairs; ff
and Gary E. Knell, president and CEO of
Sesame Workshop, were joined by Elmo
and Rosita, two of Sesame Street tt s most
popular characters.
The Muppets co-star in the fi ff lm with
singer John Mayer and actress Queen
Latifah, as well ww as several ee military families ff
who are coping with tt life-altering changes
due to combat-related injuries, both visi-
ble and invisible.
One of the families featur ff ed in the film
is that of Marine Major Nico Marcolongo,
who ww was diagnosed with post-traumatic
stress disorder following a recent deploy oo -
ment to Iraq. Afte ff r struggling with depres-
sion and detachment from his family, ll Maj a
Marcolongo eventually began the recov-
ery process with the help of civilian and
military aa professionals. He now oo works with tt
the San Diego-based Challenged Athletes
Foundation to help veterans recover fr ff om
serious injuries through the use of sports.
Coming Home, whic ww h premiered dur dd - rr
ing April, the Month of the Military
Child, dd is aimed at helping the tt childr dd en of
military personnel reconnect with their
parents nn after deployment, nn as well as teach-
ing them that they are not alone. Its ac-
tually great [to know] that theres other
families that are going through the same
thing, said Sammy mm Cila, 9, who ww partici-
pated in the film with his fami ff ly.
This summer, TLC will launch Sesame
Street Family Connections, a social Web
site that will enable deploy oo ed or injured
military personnel to interact more easily
with loved ones when distance or disabi a lity tt
makes everyday communication difficult.
TLC has created more than 1.3 million
kits containing DV DD Ds and print materials
to help cope with tt deploym oo ent, change and aa
loss. They are being distributed at no cost
to militar aa y rr familie ff s, schools, childcar aa e pro-
grams, hospitals and aa rehab a ilitation center nn s.
The kits, which are produced in English
and Spanish, also are available for down-
load fro ff m the Sesame Street Web WW site
at www.sesamestreet.org.
Compiled from Marine Corps
and civilian media press releases
Leatherneck Line
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Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop,
talks to Elmo and Rosita March 18 at the Pentagon
during the screening of the Sesame Street special
Coming Home: Military Families Cope With Change.
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To Disabled Veterans
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K.
Shinseki opened the 23rd National Dis-
abled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in
Snowmass Village, VV Colo., March 29, en-
couraging more than 400 participants he
said had fou ff nd uu their way to the tt top of the tt
mountain in search of miracles.
The group, which included about 150
vet vv erans of Iraq andAfghanis aa tan, aa has ov oo er vv -
come a lot of obstacles in life to be here,
and you will overco oo me many more by the
time this clinic is over, Shinseki said.
The clinic, jointly sponsored by the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs and Disabled
American Veterans, uses recreation as a
rehabilitative tool for veterans with dis-
abilities ranging from spinal cord injuries
and orthopedic amputat mm ions to visual im-
pairment and neurological conditions.
As the tt y learn adaptive Alpine and Nor-
dic skiing and are introduced tt to rock climb m -
ing, scuba diving, trapsho aa oting, wheelchair
fencing, sled hockey and snowmobiling
during a six-day program, the veterans
eyes are opened to a whole new world of
opportunity.
Shinseki, a retired Army general and
disabled veteran who ww lost part of his right
foot in Vietnam, said experiencing a life-
altering event changes the body, dd but not the
person. Your dreams and hopes are just
as real today, he told the veterans. Its
the heart and mind that keep hope alive.
The secretary also urge uu d the tt veterans to
take their accomp mm lishments a step further
as they experienced the exhilaration and
healing powers of these mountains, and aa the tt
support of corporate sponsors and volun-
teers who make the winter sports clinic
possible.
Raym aa ond E. Dempsey, national com-
mander of Disabled American Veterans
and a first-timer at the clinic, encouraged
the veterans to think of the week ahead as
a battle theyre entering together. We WW all
have aa a fi ff ght in front of us this week, he
said. We WW will meet the mountain as in-
dividuals and also as a band of brothers.
Adam McCann, a Marine Corps vet-
eran from ff Oberlin, Ohio, was one of the
more than 65 active-duty tt military person-
nel and veterans from operations in Iraq
and Afghanistan who participated in the
clinic this year. McCann, who ww was serv-
ing as a machine-gunner in Iraq when he
was seriously wounded during a mortar
attack in April of 2005, has attended the
clinic for ff several years.
McCann enjoys the skiing and scenery,
but theyre only a part of what keeps him
going back every year. Its really being
able to share aa stories and talk with tt the other tt
veterans that are the most important to
me, he said. They can relate to me so
much better than anyone else.
McCann has encouraging advice for
his fellow veterans: Those who think
the tt y cant do adapt aa ive sports should come
to the Winter WW Sports Clinic and watch the
other people. Then theyll believe that
they can do it too.
Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service
and Department of Veterans Affairs press release
First All-Veteran Class Graduates
From Guide Dog Program
The April 5 Guide Dogs of the Desert
graduation ceremony was meaningfu ff l not
only to the group of veterans receiving
diplomas, but also to their trainers, who ww
are veterans themselves and understand
fir ff sthand the experiences the graduates
have endured.
The graduation was held at the Guide
Dogs of the Desert campus in Whitewa-
ter, Calif. Veterans from every era were a
part of the tt graduating class, including two
graduates of a new program called See
the Possibilities, which is designed to
expand current outreach programs to vet-
erans and proactively seek out military
personnel returning from recent conflicts
in Iraq and Afgh ff anistan. Veterans receive
assistance in several areas, including ori-
entation, mobility and life skills, with the
hopes that ultimately they will be paired
with a guide dog of their own.
A few fa ff miliar fac ff es also were in the
audience on graduation day, yy including
actor Dick Van Patten, wh ww ose company,
Natural Balance, enlisted Paula Abdul to
help publicize and commemorate Guide
Dog Month in May.
We WW are so proud to be able to serve the
men and women who have so brav aa ely
served our country, yy and to be joined by
luminaries such as Dick Van Patten and
PaulaAbdul who also want ww to honor them,
said Roccie Hill, executive director of
Guide Dogs of the Desert.
Participants in the program included
Corporal William English, USMC (Ret),
who served in the Vietna VV mWa WW r and drove oo
an antitank vehicle in the Third Marine
Division, an aa d Master Sergeant Ruth tt Schu-
maker, USMC (Ret), who ww served during
World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Schu-
maker received a fe ff male Labrador/ rr golden
retriever-cross named Pearl in honor of
the crew of USS Pear PP l rr Ha HH rbor (LSD-52).
Guide Dogs of the tt Desert is a nonprof nn it ff
orga r n aa ization tha tt t off ff e ff rs safe ff mobility, lov oo -
ing companionship and independence to
the blind through the use of a guide dog.
There is no cost to any nn client for the life
skill training or for guide-dog training.
For more information about the program,
visit the Web site www.gddca.org ww .
Guide Dogs of the Desert
AAccompanied by an instructor,
AAdam McCann (foreground), a
disabled Marine veteran from
Oberlin, Ohio, challenges
himself at the 23rd National
Disabled Veter VV ans Winter
Sports Clinic in Snowmass
VVillage, Colo. Co-sponsored by
the Department of Veterans
AAffairs and the Disabled
AAmerican Veterans, the clinic
is the world leader in teaching
adaptive Alpine and Nordic
skiing to veterans with
disabilities.
Special celebrity host Paula Abdul presents MSgt
Ruth Schumaker, USMC (Ret) a diploma and an
AAmerican flag at the Guide Dogs of the Desert
graduation ceremony April 5. Schumaker kk also was
united with her guide dog, Pearl, aft ff er completingg
a 28-day intensive on-site training course.
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Sergeant Jack E. Macy, yy wh ww o won the Army mm
Distinguished Service Cross and Silver Star in
th tt e Ko KK rean aa Wa WW r aa , rr died Feb. 11 in Oak aa lan aa d, dd Calif. ff
He was 79.
Macy enlisted in th tt e Mar aa ine Corps inAu AA gu gg st
1948, just aft ff er gradu dd at aa ing fr ff omSt. Mar aa y rr s Col-
lege High School in Berk rr eley. yy He wa ww s stat aa ioned
in Guam fo ff r about 15 months befo ff re fi ff ghting
broke out on the Ko KK rean Peninsula in 1950.
On Aug. 8, he was acting platoon sergeant
with Company nn H, 3d Battalion, Fift ff h Marine
Regiment nn , 1st Prov oo isional Mar aa ine Brigade (Re-
info ff rced) in action against enemy mm aggressor
fo ff rces north tt east of Chindong. His rifl ff e platoon
was relieved wh ww ile still heav aa ily engaged with
the enemy mm and under continuous small-arms
fi ff re and sporadic mortar fi ff re.
His DSC citation states: When the relief
was completed, dd it was discovered that three
men we ww re missing. Serg r ean aa t Macy retu tt r uu ned
to the fo ff rmerly occup uu ied position in search of
these men. During his search, and at the risk
of his ow oo n w life ff , he adm dd inistered fi ff rst aid to sev-
eral wounded comrades. Aft ff er locating the
missing men, all of wh ww om were wounded, dd he
made three trips through heav aa y enemy mm fi ff re to
car aa ry rr th tt e wo ww un uu ded men to safe ff ty tt . yy He th tt en made
a fo ff urth trip to recover the body of a fa ff llen
comrade, but, because of intense enemy mm fi ff re,
was ordered to cov oo er the body and leav aa e it in
position.
Sgt Macys display aa of outstanding courage
and devotion to du d ty so impressed the U.S.
Army mm that he was aw aa arded the DSC.
He later told a newspaper reporter, It was
very simple. Id been training with those men
fo ff r two years. They were just like members of
my mm fa ff mily. yy I just went in and got them.
He was in the landing at Inchon and the
push into the South Ko KK rean capital of Seoul.
On Sept. 26, 1950, he earned the Silver Star
and a Purple Heart wh ww en he was shot in the
hip and leg du dd ring street-to-street fi ff ghting.
Millard Kaufman
Millard Kaufm ff an, a Wo WW rld Wa WW r II veteran
and a screenwriter wh ww o co-created th tt e charac-
ter Mr. rr Magoo an aa d was nominated fo ff r Acad-
emy mm Aw AA ards fo ff r his screenplay aa s of Ta TT ke the
High Groun uu d! and Bad Day aa at Black Rock,
died March 15 in Los Angeles. He was 92.
Kaufm ff an graduated fr ff om Johns Hopkins
University in 1939 and work rr ed as a reporter
befo ff re joining the Marines in 1942 and serv-
ing in WW II.
His writing credits also include Never So
Few, ww The Wa WW rlord, dd The Klansman and
Conv nn icts 4.
Kaufm ff an wrote a screenplay aa fo ff r a short
fi ff lm called Ragtime Bear in 1949. A fe ff a-
tured character was Mr. Magoo, wh ww ose voice
was that of actor Jim Backu kk s. Kaufm ff an later
helped write the 1950 Mr. Magoo short fi ff lm
Punchy hh de Leon.
In 2007, he published his fi ff rst novel, the
baw aa dy dd coming-of- ff age tale Bow oo l of Cherries.
His second nov oo el, Misadventure, is sched-
uled to be pub u lished this fa ff ll.
Col Frederick P. PP Anthony nn in the Wa WW shing-
ton, D.C., area. Aft ff er a career in the Corps, he
was, fo ff r many nn years, Head, dd Military Aw AA ards
Branch, Headqu qq arters, U.S. Marine Corps.
Dr. rr Ralph B. Ballou Jr. rr , 85, of Nashville,
Te TT nn. He was a WW II veteran, phy hh sical edu dd -
cation profe ff ssor and director of athletics at
Belmont College in Nashville and at Middle
Te TT nnessee State University fo ff r 27 years.
Cpl James Budas, 83, of Battle Creek,
Mich. He was a WW II veteran who served
seven years. He was with 1stMarDiv, vv III Am-
phibious Corps, at Tientsin, China, and later
served at the U.S. Nav aa al Ammunition Depot,
Crane, Ind. He also served at Camp Lej e eune,
N.C., and sailed on a Mediterranean cruise.
He left ff high school to enlist in 1943, and in
2002, wh ww ile in his 70s, gradu dd ated fr ff om Battle
Creek Central High School.
PFCIvy C. Cantrell, 89, of Clemson, S.C.
He was a WW II veteran wh ww o served with the
3dMarDiv at Guam in 1944 and Iwo Jima in
1945.
John J. Carro, 82, of Stone Ridge, N.Y. YY He
was a WW II veteran wh ww o served fr ff om 1944
to 1946 and was aw aa arded the Purple Heart fo ff r
wounds received on Iwo Jima.
LCpl AndrewCassidy dd , 64, of We WW st Hav aa en,
Conn. He was a Vi VV etnam veteran.
Lloyd P. PP Castle Sr. rr , 80, of Hemet, Calif. ff
LtCol Joseph F. FF Cody dd Jr. rr , 77, in Salisbur uu y, yy
N.C. He was a Mustang off ff i ff cer wh ww o enlisted
in 1947. He served with the MarDets in USS
Box oo er (CV- VV 21) and USS Mo MM unt Mc MM Ki KK nley e
(AGC-7), was a Ko KK rean Wa WW r veteran, a drill
instructor at MCRD San Diego and was com-
missioned in 1956. As a cap aa tain, he comm mm an aa ded
the MarDet in USS In II tr tt e rr p e id (CVA VV -11).
He was operations off ff i ff cer, 5th Marines in
Vi VV etnam and commanded 2/8 at Guantanamo
Bay aa , yy Cub u a. He retired with tt more th tt an 29 years
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The fo ff llow oo ing Marines were listed as hav aa ing died while supporting combat operations:
Lance Corporal Daniel J. Geary, 22, of Rome, N.Y. YY, with 3d Battalion, Eighth Marine
Regiment, Second Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base
Camp Lej e eune, N.C., March 20, in Farah prov oo ince, Afg ff hanistan.
Corporal Michael W. WW Ouellette, 28, of Manchester, N.H., with 3/8, 2dMarDiv, vv II MEF, FF
Camp Lej e eune, March 22, in Helmand prov oo ince, Afg ff hanistan.
Cpl Anthony nn L. Wi WW lliams, 21, of Oxfo ff rd, dd Pa., with tt 3/8, 2dM dd ar aa D rr iv ii , vv II MEF, FF Cam aa p mm Lej e eun uu e,
March 22, in Helmand prov oo ince.
The fo ff llow oo ing Marines died during nonhostile incidents:
LCpl Nelson M. Lantigua, 20, of Miami with 2/10, 2dMarDiv, vv II MEF, FF Camp mm Lej e eune,
March 31, in Al Anbar prov oo ince, Iraq.
LCpl PatrickA. Malone, 21, of Ocala, Fla., with tt 2dTa TT nk Bn, 2dMarDiv, vv II MEF, FF Camp mm
Lej e eune, March 10, in Al Anbar prov oo ince.
Staff ff Sergeant ArchieA. Ta TT y aa lor, 37, of To TT mb m all, Te TT xas, with tt 2d Intelligence Bn, II MEF
Headqu qq arters Group uu , II MEF, FF Camp Lej e eune, March 14, in Kabul prov oo ince, Afg ff hanistan.
Cpl Donte J. Whitworth, 21, of Noblesville, Ind., with Comb m at Logistics Regiment 15,
First Marine Logistics Group uu , Marine Corps Air Station Yu YY ma, Ariz., Feb. 28 (DOD an-
nounced his death March 4), in Al Anbar prov oo ince as the result of a vehicle accident.
Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom:
Marine Casualties, March 1-31, 2009
of service. His personal decorations include
the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star with combat
V, Meritorious Service Medal and Purple
Heart.
His brother is LtCol Richard L. Cody,
USMC (Ret) of Stafford, Va., who served with
him in Vietnam and, on one occasion, in a
fi ff refight together against the enemy. yy
He also wrote three novels about the Ma-
rines: The Coura uu ge Tree, Imitate the Tiger
and So Becomes a Man.
SSgt Donald R. deChambeau, 83, of Waite
Park, rr Minn. He served from 1943 to 1949 as
a radar operator with MAWS-7, 2d MAW, and
participated in the Battle of Okinawa. Later he
was part of the occupation forces in China. He
was a founder of the MAWS-7 Assn., a life ff
member of the MCLs Valhalla Det. and served
as its commandant for five years.
Cpl Thomas W. Donahue, 59, of St. Cloud, dd
Minn. He served from 1969 to 1971, with a
tour in Vi VV etnam in the tt 7th Counterintelligence
Tea TT m. He was a member of the MCLs Val-
halla Det.
Cpl Charles J. Farrell, 62, of Fort Wayne,
Ind. He was an FO with D/2/11, who was
wounded in 1966 on his first day in country.
He was awarded the Purple Heart, spent a year
at Great Lakes Nava aa l Hospital and was re-
leased with total disability in 1967. He dreamed
of a career in the Corps, but he never got the
opportunity. yy
Sgt Louis P. Fratzke, 83, of Pierre, S.D. He
was a WW II veteran who served from 1943
to 1945 with H&S Co, 4th Bn, 14th Marines,
4thMarDiv. He was recalled during the Ko-
rean War and served with the 1stMarDiv. In
1952, he joined the South Dakota National
Guard and retired as a chief warrant officer 4
with 42 years total service. He also was a
trooper with the South Dakota Highway Pa-
trol, retiring as a captain after 25 years. He
was a member of the MCL, 4thMarDiv Assn.
and 1stMarDiv Assn.
Herb Freeman, 82, of The Villages, Fla.
During the 1950s and 60s, he was a photo-
journalist for Stars and Str tt ipes i and Leather- rr
neck, and a Marine veteran of 21 years.
Harold N. Hecht, 80, of Remsen, Iowa.
He served from 1952 to 1954 as an aircraft
electrician.
Capt WilliamC. Bill Hudson, 81, of Du-
rant, Okla. He enlisted at the end of WW II,
was commissioned and was a rifle platoon
leader in A/1/7 in Korea. He was awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds received while lead-
ing a night patrol at Outpost Detroit in August
1952.
Cpl Clarence P. PP Pete Kellett, 84, of
Powdersville, S.C. He was a WW II veteran
who ww saw action with the 2dMarDiv at Tarawa,
Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa. aa He was a mem-
ber of the MCL.
The Rev. Robert L. Uncle Bob Knox,
83, of Newark, Ohio. He was a Marine during
WW II and went on to graduate from Lincoln
Bible Institute (Lincoln Christian College),
Lincoln, Ill.
Prior to his retirement, he was chaplain for
the Newark police and fire departments. He
also ministered at theAubu AA rn uu Christia rr n aa Church,
Au AA b u urn, Ill.; Rive ii rton Christian aa Chu hh rc uu h, River ii - rr
ton, Ill.; Camp Point Christian Church, Camp
Point, Ill; Second Church of Christ, Newark;
Heath tt Church of Chr hh ist, Heath tt ; Licking Valley
Church of Christ, Newark; Newark Church of
Christ, Newark; Frazeysbur uu g r Chur hh ch of Chr hh ist,
Frazeysburg; and Pleasant Vall VV ey Church. He
was a member m of the Second Church of Christ
in Newark and the MCL.
Jerome M. Kopp, 76, of North Mankato,
Minn. He served from 1951 to 1954 and was
a Korean War veteran.
LtCol Frederick A. Locke, 76, in Fort
Myers, Fla. A graduate of Bucknell Univer-
sity, he was named to the 1952 Olympic soc-
cer team and also named to the second team
All-American squad. He entered the Marine
Corps and became a helicopter pilot, flying
combat missions over oo Vietnam. His awards in-
clude the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze
Star medal with tt combat V, VV two tt Purple Hearts
and the Combat Action Ribbon.
As a member of Marine Helicopter Squad-
ron One, he fle ff w during the administrations of
Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, ww John F. Ken-
nedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He also served
as fi ff rst lady Jacqueline Kennedys personal
pilot. He established the tt Marine Corps JROTC
program in Henderson, Nev., and was recog-
nized by former President James E. Jimmy
Carter for ff outstanding community achieve-
ment. He also established and directed the an-
nual Toys for Tots drive in Lehigh Acres, Fla.
Cpl Fred Lopez, 85, of CastroVal VV ley, Calif.
He was a WW II veteran who served as a re-
conn nn aissance aa scout and intelligence NCOwith
1st Bn, 8th Marines, 2dMarDiv. He fought at
Taraw aa a, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa aa , where ww
he was seriously wounded whi ww le neutralizing
a Japanese machine-gun nest. He later retired
as an engineer with Law aa rence Livermore Na-
tional Laboratory, whe ww re he work ww ed kk for ff 34 years.
George Lucey, 80, of Conshohocken, Pa.
He served in WW II and the Korean KK War and
also played football for Marine Corps teams.
He was a member of the China Marine Assn.
and MCL. He also anonymously left Thanks-
giving dinners on the doorsteps of underpriv-
ileged families.
Harold J. Melloy, 87, of Roswell, Ga. He
served in WW II with H&S Co, 3d Marines.
He was elected to multiple terms of office as
president of the 3dMarDiv Assn. and as chair-
man of the board of directors. A graduate of
Brooklyn Poly ll technic Univ ii ersity, yy he had a dis-
tinguished engineering career in the tt Nashville
and Atlanta areas.
Wilfo ff rd M. Whitey Meyer, 86, of Le
Sueur, Minn. He was a WW II veteran of the
Pacific. ff
1stSgt Kenneth Pony Monell, 77, in
Geneva, Switzerland. He enlisted in 1949 and
served 22 years. He was a fire team leader
with H/3/7 during the Korean KK War at Inchon,
Seoul and the Chosin Reservoir. He was
wounded along with his entire fire team on
Sept. 11, 1951, and awarded ww a Bronze Star after
leading an attack on a communist bunker.
During the VietnamWar, he was an advisor
with the South Vietnamese Marines. Later, he
served with Co C, lst Recon Bn and lst Force
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Recon Co. He participated in the Battle of
Hue during Tet, TT 1968.
GySgt Ralph W. WW Paulk, 94, in Hayward,
Calif. ff He was a WW II veteran who served
with 6thMarDiv. He also was a member of the
6thMarDiv Assn. and the 1stLt Frank Rea-
soner Det. 919, MCL.
Maj Lonnie Poling, 63, of Arab, Ala. He
served 25 years, including service in the Viet-
nam War. He was the founding chairman for
the Joint Integrated Air & Missile Defense ff
(JIAMD) Summit mm in Huntsville, where a Path-
fi ff nder Award will be dedicated in his name
and put on display at the Von Braun Center.
This award aa will go to the tt member m of the tt JIAMD
community who ww best exempl mm ifies Maj Polings
spirit of selfless leadership.
George Potterton of Closter, N.J. In 1951,
he served as a corporal with tt 1st Tank Bn in Ko-
rea. He was commissioned in February 1952,
and then served with 8th Motor Transport Bn
until 1953. He was a middle school physical
education instructor, athletic director for 38
years and Closter recreation director for ff 40
years.
Perc PP y L. Roberts Jr. rr, 83, of Memphis mm , Tenn. TT
He was a veteran of WW II and the Korean
War WW and subsequently a member of the Ma-
rine Corps Reserve. In 1951, he captained the
University of Memphis fo ff otball team and won
the JimThorpe Award AA that year.
CWO-2 WW Anthony G. Tony Ruggiero, 78,
of Marthaville, La. He served 21 years. Dur-
ing the Korean War, he served as a gun squad
leader with 1st Plt, 4.2-inch mortars, lst Ma-
rines at Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir in
1950. He also was stationed in Bonn, Ger-
many; nn Iwakuni, Japa aa n; and Twentynine Palms,
Calif.
He later worked in law aa enfor ff cement as a
deputy to the Juvenile Division for ff the East
Bato aa n Rouge Parish aa Sheriffs Office. ff He retired
with the Louisiana Department of Justice as
chief criminal inve nn stigator fo ff r the attorney
generals offi ff ce.
Col Herb Schlosberg in Sherman Oaks,
Calif. A WW II veteran, he was later Southe uu rn
Californias Toys oo fo ff r Tots coordinator. He was
the photographic officer fo ff r the 4thMarDiv
and veteran of Iwo Jima who ww later worked to
help produce the Academy mm Award-nom AA inated
fil ff m To the Shores of Iwo Jima.
He was recalled to active duty during the
Korean War and sent to San Francisco where ww
he attended law school in his spare time and
handled legal matters for production compa-
nies. He later handled the estates of Marine
veteran and late novelist Leon Uris as well as
Col Bill Hendricks, who founded the Toys for
Tots program, which Schlosberg helped coor-
dinate and supported.
He was a close friend and confidant of the
late Joe Rosenthal, the Associated Press pho-
tographer widely known for his famous Pulit-
zer Prize-winning photo of the second fl ff ag
raising atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
Maj Roy N. Thorson, 85, of Green Valley,
Ariz. He was a WW II Marine aviator with
VMB-433, who fle ff w PBJ (Marine B-25)
bombers over the Northern Solomon Islands
and the Philippines. He was recalled to active
duty during the Korean War and transitioned
to helicopters, flying the Sikorsky kk HRS with
HMR-162.
GySgt Billy F. Wal WW ker, 82, of Tr TT ooper, Pa.
A retired Marine, his service included WW II
at Iwo Jima, the Korean KK War and then in Viet-
nam as a civilian liaison with Philco Ford. He
operated his own business, Hybrid Service
Labs, cutting and inspecting semiconductors.
He was a life ff member of the MCL, Valley
Forge Det.
Sgt Robert J. Zak Waszak, 63, of Chi-
cago. He served from 1963 to 1969 and was a
radio operator with H&S/2/9 and 3/3, 3dMar-
Div, vv 1965-66. He participated in Operation
Starlite, Operation Piranha and Operation
Rice Straw-Golden Fleece.
Theodore J. Te TT d White, 85, of Indian
Wel WW ls, Calif. He was a WW II veteran of the
5thMarDiv on Iwo Jima. He was a member of
the fi ff rst patrol to reach the summit of Mount
Suribachi. He was wounded and medically
evacuated to the States. He was involved with
Special Olympics, Boy Scouts and the Foun-
dation for the Retarded of the Desert.
Sgt Gladys L. (Sims) Williams, 89, in Cin-
cinnati. A sergeant during WW II, she served
as a LINK trainer in Santa Barba r ra, Calif.
Among her students was future Ohio Senator
John Glenn. In 1944, after marrying Glyn
Williams, she was honorably a discharged fro ff m
the Corps.
In 1952, she co-founded the Troy Country
Works WW hop with local artists. She won numer-
ous aw aa ards for her pottery, yy and she donated a
portion of the annual sale proceeds toward
scholarships for Troy High School students.
She established the Troy Head Start Pro-
gram, which she also directed from 1968 to
1973. She worked as a fa ff mi aa ly therap aa ist at aa Good
Samaritan Hospital in Dayto aa n and in private
practice in the off ff ic ff e of Dr. Jung H. Kim of
Lima. She later worked at Catholic Social
Services in Sydney and was a board member
and supporter of the Mental Health Associa-
tion of Miami County. yy
Sgt Charles Chuck Woodman, 77, of
Highland, Calif. He enlisted in 1949 and was
with tt C/1/1, 1stMarDiv ii in 1950 Korea fr ff om In-
chon to Seoul to the Chosin Reservoir and the
Central Front in 1951. He eventually retired
from th tt e San Bernardino County tt Sheriffs De-
partment as a detective. He was a member of
the Chosin Few and 1stMarDiv Assn.
John F. Wo WW rtcheck, 85, in Bristol, Conn.
He was a WW II veteran with Co B, 4th En-
gineer Bn, 20th Regt, 4thMarDiv and saw ac-
tion at Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo
Jima. He subse u quently wa ww s awarded the Bronze
Star and two Purple Hearts. After the war, he
represented Bristol in the Connecticut State
Assembly. yy He was on the board of managers
of the Wheeler Regional YMCA in Plainv nn ille.
Cpl Garvin C. Wright, 86, of Redington
Shores, Fla. He was a WW II veteran who
served with Co B, 3d Tank TT Bn, 3dMarDiv on
Guadalcanal and made combat landings on
Bougainvi nn lle, Guam and Iwo Jima. He was a
life ff member of the Marine Corps Tank TT ers
Assn. and the 3dMarDiv Assn.
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shot the boats captains or other officers. ff
As time passed and his killing reputation
grew, ww he was hunted by the local army
units and a combined Marine/Navy am-
phibious force.
In one tru rr ly remarkable moment in naval aa
military history, yy the captain aa of a transport
loaded with armed soldiers hove to and
attempted to surrender. Thinking hed been
accosted by bb a swarmof Rebels, the tt captain
beached his boat and rapidly struck his
colors. Alone, with no infantry support,
Hinson reluctantly passed on the offer ff
and quietly faded into the countryside.
The au aa th uu or writes, It was the tt only ll time
in recorded history that tt a fully armed rr naval
vessel with embarked combat troops ever
surrendered to one man, and it was prob-
ably the shortest period of military con-
finement aft ff er being captured uu in combat.
Late in the war, Jack acted as a guide
for General Nathan Bedford Forrests op-
erations in Tennessee and Kentucky. kk The
auth uu or estimates that Hinson, who surv uu ived
the war, had killed nearly 100 individu dd als,
including some pro-Southern renegades
who plagued his neighbor. After the war,
Hinson presented his trusty sniper rifle to
GENForrest. The reader will note that the
rifles chain of possession is carefully
recorded in the appendix of the book.
McKenney spent 15 years researching
the legend surrounding Jack Hinsons
unique qq war experiences. His research was
diffi ff cult becaus aa e Hinsons surviving family
was, at first, ff afraid of reprisal, while later
descendants aa wished not to be remembe m red
as being related to a bushwhacker. The
book is a joy to read; whether youre an
old military trained scout sniper, or a hard-
charging Civil War WW enthusiast, youll be
captivated at this skillfully crafte ff d liter-
ary masterpiece.
Jack Hinsons One-Man War reads
with the comfor ff t of a best-seller, but in
fact, this true-to-life tale might easily have
been lost to history. So capture a copy,
stake out a comfortable chair, and read
and refl ff ect on the righteousness of a bro-
ken-hearted fathers need for furi ff ous
vengeance.
Robert B. Loring
Editors note: Marine veteran Red
Bob Loring provides frequent reviews
for Leatherneck readers. When not read- dd
ing, gg Bob works rr ceaselessly in support of
East Pasco PP County, yy Fla.s community ef- ff
forts, tt including Toys for Tots.
LAST LL MAN STANDING: The 1st Marine Regiment on
Peleliu, September 15-21, 1944. By Dick Camp.
Published by Zenith Press. 320 pages. Stock
#0760334935. $25.20 MCA Members. $28 Regu-
lar Price.
Employi oo ng the Marine Corps History
Divisions vast collection, including the
personal papers archived in the Marine
Corps General Alfred M. Gray Research
Center aboard Marine Corps Base Quan-
tico, Va., and extensive interviews with
two of the First Marine Regiments bat-
talion commanders, author Dick Camp
skillfully rolls this rare material into one
of the most dramatic battle accounts of
the past decade. So much so, in fact, ff that
the reader feels he or she is actually par-
ticipating in the horrifi ff c assault that re-
sulted in un uu doubtedly some of the highest
casualties in Marine Corps history.
Taking the battle a day aa at a time, Camp,
currently the vice president for museum
operations at the National Museum uu of the
Marin aa e Corps, viv ii idly dd highlights hh the ama aa z-
ing heroics, especially the tt ferocious fight-
ing on D+2 fo ff r Bloody Nose Ridge. In
six brutal days, we come upon innumer-
able blood-and-guts heroes such as Lieu-
tenant Colonel Russell E. Honsowetz,
comman aa din d g the tt 2d Batt aa alion, 1st Mar aa in rr es,
and Colonel Lewis B. Chesty Puller, to
name two out of at least 20.
To TT his credit, dd Camp mm doesnt mince words
in describing the controversy between
Majo a r General Roy S. Geiger and Maj a -
Gen William H. Ruper RR tus when ww MajGen
Geiger was forced to order MajGen Ru-
pertus to bring in soldiers from the U.S.
Armys mm Wildcat Division to replace the
badly shot-up 1st Marinessomething
MajG a en Rup uu ertus was loathe to do. His
boast that Peleliu would be captured in
two, three days at the most was overly
optimistic.
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By the time the battle ended, heroism
was commonplace. The Presidential Unit
Citation was awarded aa to the First Marine
Division (Reinforced) for ff its extraordinary
heroism in action against Colonel Kunio
Nakagawas 2d Infantry Regiment con-
sisting of 6,500 combat-hardened troops
positioned in what were ww called by Mar aa ines
as maniacal ramparts.
In part, the citation read: Opposed all
th tt e way by th tt oroughly disciplined veteran aa
Japanese troops heavily entrenched in
caves and in reinforced concrete pillboxes
which honeycombed the high ground
throughout the island, the off ff i ff cers and
men fought with undiminished spirit and
courage despite heavy aa losses, exhausting
heat aa and aa difficult terrain, seizing an aa d hold-
ing a highly ll strat tt egic air and land base for
future operations in the West WW ern Pacific.
By their individual acts of heroism, their
aggressiveness and their for ff titude, the
men of the First Marine Division upheld
the highest traditions of the United States
Naval Service.
Writt tt en with obvious affect ff ion an aa d deep
appreciation fo ff r the First Marine Regi-
ment, and the books main contributors,
Ray Davi aa s and Russ Honsowetz, Last
Man Standing, in addition to holding
firmly ff to documented fact, is a model of
solid, dd believable military writing the way
it should be written.
Don DeNevi
Editors note: Don DeNevi, who sp s e-
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tles of his own, including The Mi MM litary
Railw ll ay Serv SS ice in Wo WW rld War II II , II A mer- rr
icas Fighting Railroads and The West
Coast Goes to War. rr A retired colleg e e gg in-
structor, he now serves as supervisor of o
recreation at San SS Quentin St SS a tt te Prison in
California.
ON THE CORPS: USMC Wisdom From the Pages of
Leath tt erne rr ck cc , Mar MM i rr n ii e Corps Gazette tt , and Proc rr eed- dd
ing ii s gg . Edited by LtCol Charles P. Neimeyer, USMC
(Ret). Published by Naval Institute Press. 277
pages. Stock #1591145910. $21.84 MCA Mem-
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This is a book of articles taken fromthe tt
annals of The Naval aa Institutes Proceed- dd
ings and the Marine Corps Associations
Marine Corps Gazette and Leatherneck
magazine, as put together by retired Lieu-
tenant Colonel Charles P. PP Neimeyer, Di-
rector, History Division, United States
Marine Corps.
Individually, these are interesting arti-
cles written by experts on various Marine
Corps subj u ects. As a whole, they describe
th tt e matu aa r uu in rr g of the tt Marine Corpsa com-
ing of age of a magnificent ff fight ff ing ma-
chine whose foes ff were not always ll met on
a bloody battlefield. ff The articles capture
the essence of a Marine and answer the
question: What is it that makes a Marine?
While our Corps has an illustrious his-
tory of battlefield victories, some of our
most vicious and important fi ff ghts took
place in and around Was WW hington, D.C.,
when various fact ff ions sought to either
disban aa d us enti nn rely ll or place us un uu der Army AA
contro nn l. These figh ff ts hh continue nn to be fought,
and some of the articles describe how the
Corps survived these onslaughts.
While reading the articles, we find that
for a good leader, it is most important to
have good followe oo rs. We WW discover the tt value
of boot camp and how the concept of
using combat m -trained veterans as instruc-
tors was put to good use. We read about
esprit de corps, that elusive but all-im-
portant quality of the Corps. We WW learn
that offi ff cers share our esteem for ff the cor-
porals and sergeants on the battlefi ff eld.
We see the role history plays in the mak-
ing of our Corps and how knowledge of
those who ww went before us buoys our spir-
its when ww the tides of war are at low ebb.
We learn all this, and much, much more.
Some of the articles were written by
leathernecks whose names will be famil-
iar even to modern-day Marinesleaders
who ww are legend to us. The names of other
authors may not ring a bell, but every one
of themhad something important aa to tell in
an article and was considered to be a vi-
sionary in his day. For instance aa , included is
a 1920 Marine Cor CC ps r Gazette article by
Major Alfr ff ed A. Cunningham about the
Value of Aviati AA on to the Marine Corps.
Also included is Major General John A.
Lej e eunes 1921 speech to theArmy rr General rr
Staff College, whi ww ch was reprinted in the
July ll 1979 issue of Mar MM ine Corp rr s Gaz aa ette.
The last article in the book was written
by General Lewis W. Wal WW t, pub u lished in
the May 1971 issue of Leatherneck, as
Gen Walt bid his Marines farewel ff l on the
eve of his retirement. LtCol Neimeyer
has done a magnificent job in the article
selection process. When reading the arti-
cles in order, a reader will quickly come
to understand what sets Marines apart.
The reader will witness the transition of
our Corps from ff a group of high-rigging
marksmen to the world-renowned mili-
tary force of today, respected in all quar-
ters of the tt globe. He will be a better tt Marine rr
for having read this book.
GySgt John Boring, USMC (Ret)
Editors note: GySgt Boring is a retire rr d
Marine Corps CC journalist and a life ff mem-
ber of o the Uni UU ted States Mar MM ine Corps r
Combat CC Correspondents s Association. He
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Bill, l youve made our day. yy Un UU f n or ff tu-
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in the tt photo. If yo ff u can IDthem, and thei tt r
sergeant r major, please let us know who
the tt y e are, e so we can publish the tt ir names
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on my toes regarding the Corps: past,
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So far, she has witnessed recruit grad-
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see our second air show at MCASYuma.
One of Idas favorite T-shirts is embla-
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I am indeed one fortunate Marine!
MGySgt Carlton LeDrew, USMC (Ret)
Yuma, Ariz.
Yes, indeed you are.Sound Off Ed.
Theres Always a Critic
The picture of the Marine guard wear-
ing a white holster next to Marine One in
the February issue caused me to wonder
if he was actually armed with a pistol, and aa
if he was, did the pistol have the firing pin
removed?
I just recently received a tour of th tt e Ar-
lington National Cemetery by a soldier
assigned to Fort Myer who participated in
the inaugural events of our newest Presi-
dent. He told me that prior to the event,
the Secret Service removed the firing ff pin
of every rifle carried by the honor guards,
and that they also disabled the fli ff ntlock
rifles of the soldiers who were wearing
Revolutionary War uniforms. I consider
this to be an aa insult to the tt soldiers stationed
at Fort Myer, whose division is named
The Old Guard because of their long
history of loyalty and service to this nation.
I have to admit that this disturbed me
and I wondered ww who instituted this policy
and why. hh
I recall that when I was a member of
the Los Angeles Police Departme tt nt, I was
assigned to attend an event where Presi-
dent nn Jimmy mm Carte aa r appeared. The President nn
walked within fiv ff e feet of me, and I was
armed with a .38-caliber revolver. I also
was assigned to cover Senator Hubert
Hum uu ph mm rey hh when he was running for Pres-
ident and paraded down Broadway aa in Los
Angeles. No one asked to check my weap-
on on either occasion.
If the current President cannot trust the
men and women of the United States
Armed Forces to defend him, whom can
he trust? The Secret Service? Their rec-
ord is not too good. They failed to keep
the President from being shot twice in the
last 50 years. Maybe, he should start car-
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rying a gun uu and take responsibility for his
own safet ff y.
By the way, yy one of my proudest mo-
ments as a Marine was when ww I was part of
the miles-long honor guard for President
Eisenhower when he visited Okinawa.
Harry Ted Kozak
USMC, 1958-62
Fisherville, Ky.
If yo ff u do dd nt think that Mari MM ne is ii arme rr d, dd
theres rr only one sure way for ff you to find ff
out. Be at the White House the next time
Marine One lands and test him. As to re rr -
moving the firing pins during the inau-
guration, I will give you the same answer
we gave in our May 2005 issue after the
2004 pres rr idential election. The nation is ii
at war and, consequently, yy security at the
inauguration and related rr events was high.
Accordin rr g to [the] [[ Public Affa A irs Of- ff
fice, Marin MM e Barracks, Washington, D.C.,
the bolts were removed from the rifl i es
carried by b Marines [and other tt units] s in
the inaugural parade rr for security pur-
poses by order of the Secret Service.
Your remar rr ks rr about the Secret Service
are rr uncalled for. They TT do an incredibly ll
diffi i cult job. Be reminded that, tt before you
throw stones, our Cor CC ps rr has sadly ll had its
share rr of murderous snipers and assassins
who once wore rr the uniform.Sound Off ff Ed. ff
We Have a Winner! Give That Man $100
In II the Ap A ril magaz gg ine, we ran the
above picture rr fro ff m re rr tired rr Marine Fi FF rst
Lieutenant Jo JJ hn G. Lede dd s who offere ff d
$100 to the tt firs rr t person who could iden-
tify i the tt unit and tell us the month and year
the photo was take kk n and name some of
the Marines pictured. Charles B. Baldwi dd n
Jr. JJ of Twentyn tt ine Pa PP lms, Califff , received a
crisp hundred-dollar bill after ff he wrote: rr
looks kk like kk [m [[ embers of o ] ff 1st Platoon,
Baker Com CC p m any n , yy 1st Battalion, Seventh
Marine Regiment around November 1950,
in Korea, right i after ff the tt Battle of Sudong
and prior to tt the tt Chi CC nese enteri tt ng the tt war. rr
Mr. rr Baldw ll in knew, ww because at the tt time,
he was a machine-gunner with Weapons
Plt, 1/7, led ll by Fir FF st rr Lieutena tt nt Che CC wEen
Kurt Lee, e who on No NN v. 2 and 3 won the tt
Navy NN Cros rr s in Korea. KK Sound Off O Ed. EE
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Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak.
Please note that on Oct. 28, 1943, Navy
Reserve Lieutenant John F. Ke KK nnedy dd was
command aa er of PTBoat 59 whe ww n he helped
evacuate the wounded from the 2d Para-
chute Battalions Choiseul raid. One Mari aa ne
died in JFKs bunk. PT Boat 109 was sunk uu
on Aug. 2, 1943, in the Solomon Islands.
1stSgt Bill Westmoreland, USMC (Ret)
Docent, Command Museum
MCRD San Diego
This Story Is Just Peachy
I am a former ff Marine sergeant; a vet-
eran of World War II and the Kore KK an War.
During WW II, while serving with the
Sixth Marine Division on Okinawa aa in
May 1945, a fellow oo Marine aa yelled out uu tha tt t
he was hit and exclaimed that his blood
was running down his back.
Aft ff er removing his backpack, it was
discovered that a Japanese bullet had en-
tered his backpack and pierced a small
can of peaches.
The blood that was runn uu ing down his
back was juice from ff the can of peaches. The
name of the Marine, who was from ff Flush-
ing, N.Y., YY fro ff mtha tt t aa time on was ww Peaches.
John A. Albanese
Wallingford, Conn.
John JJ , thanks kk for including Pea PP ches
full name, but we removed it in order to
protect his sweetness. tt Sound Off Ed.
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MSG Bonn, Germany, is planning a
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barqmail.com.
USS Elokomin (AO-55 AA ), Sept. 22-25,
Gettysburg, Pa. Contact Robert F. OSul-
livan, 25 Denny St., Dorchester, MA
02125, (617) 288-3755, theeloman@
verizon.net.
USS Hornet HH (CV-8, CV/CVA/CVS-
12), Sept. 16-20, Buffa ff lo/N // iagara Falls,
N.Y. Contact Carl and Sandy Burket,
(814) 224-5063, hornetcva@aol.com.
USS Houston (CL-81), Sept. 16-20,
Long Beach, Calif. ff Contact Joe Szabo,
6337 E. Edgefield St., Lakewood, CA
90713, (562) 866-8690.
USS Iw II o Jima Class Association: USS
Iwo Jima (LPH-2/LHD-7), USS Okin kk awa
(LPH-3), USS Guadalca ll nal (LPH-7), USS
Guam (LPH-9), USS Tripoli i (LPH-10/
CVE-64), USS New Orleans (LPH-11),
Sept. 16-20, Holiday aa InnAirport, Tuc TT son,
Ariz. Contact Robert G. McAnally, 152
Frissell St., Hampton, VA 23663, (757)
723-0317, yujack@megalink.net.
USS Lake Champlain (CV/CVA/
CVS-39), Oct. 22-25, Harrisburg, Pa.
Contact Eugene Carroll, P.O. Box 131,
Interlaken, NY 14847, (607) 532-4735,
gcarroll@rochester.rr.com, www.ml ww rsinc
.com/lakechamp.
USS Lenawee (APA-195), Oct. 14-18,
Tuc TT son, Ariz. Contact Mac McCarty tt , yy 1911
E. Pole Star Pl., Tu TT cson, AZ 85737-3402,
(520) 297-9814, mccartyml@aol.com.
USSMontic tt ello ll (LSD-35) Al l Hands aa ,
Sept. 16-19, Branson Grand Plaza Hotel,
Bran aa son, Mo. Conta nn ct Robert Behm, 3011
Dunn uu Rd., Valley Springs, CA95252, (209)
772-0543, beamer@ussmonticello.com.
USS Philippine Sea (CV/CVA/C VV VS-
47) 1946-58, Oct. 5-10, Tucson, Ariz.
Contact CPO Chuck Davis, USN (Ret),
P.O. Box 496412, Port Charlotte, FL
33949-6412, (941) 743-5460, philsea@
embarqmail.com, chuckdavis1 aa @embarq
mail.com.
USS Rankin (AKA/LKA-103), Sept.
17-20, Norfolk, Va. VV Contact Skip Sander,
153 May aa er Dr., Pittsburgh, PA 15237,
(412) 367-1376, ussrankin@aol.com,
www.mlrsinc.com/rankin.
USS Sibley e (APA-206), Sept. 16-20,
Albany, N.Y. Contact Linda Stressel, 50
Hite Ct., Schenectady, NY 12303-5642,
(518) 785-7897.
USS So SS lomons (CVE-67) and her de-
stro tt ye oo r escorts, Jun uu e 27-30. Conta nn ct Joseph
E. Comeau Jr., P.O. Box 235, LaGrange,
ME 04453, (207) 943-8856, comeaufa@
ggcg.org.
USS Trenton rr (LPD-14), July 24-26,
Norfol ff k, Va VV . Contact BT-3 TT Chris Buffo ff rd,
1119 Count uu y tt Rd. 521, Cusseta, AL 36852,
(334) 756-8278, captp aa icar aa d30668@yaho aa o
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25-30, Low oo ell, Mass. Contact Richard G.
VanOver, 6584 Bunting Rd., Orchard
Park, NY 14127-3635, (716) 649-9053.
USS Yancey e (AKA-93), October,
Mobile, Ala. Contact George Clifton,
9620 Mansfield Av AA e., Oak Law aa n, IL
60453, (708) 425-8531, clifs@ ff ameritech
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U.S. Naval aa Disciplinary Command
(Marine Detachment guards and all Navy
duty personnel are welcome to attend),
Sept. 17-20, Anchorage Inn and Suites,
Portsmouth, N.H. Contact Steve Jenni-
son, (603) 868-2138; Jim Tu TT ohy hh , yy (810)
695-3241; or Rocco Valvano, (570) 323-
2330, http://usndcmd.org.
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Field), Oct. 29-Nov. vv 1, Surfside Inn on
the Boardwalk, Virgi VV nia Beach, Va. VV Con-
tact Chet Atkinson, P.O. PP Box 62066, Vi V r-
ginia Beach, VA VV 23466, (757) 495-1338.
U.S. Navy aa Amphibious Force Veter- rr
ans Assn., Oct. 11-16, San Antonio. Con-
tact John J. Walsh, 2745 Dalton Ln.,
Toms River, NJ 08755, (732) 367-6472,
apa224vp16@comcast.net.
Military Police Customs Reunion
Assn. (open to Marines and sailors with
Customs experience), Oct. 30-Nov. vv 1,
Branson, Mo. Contact Michael D. Aust-
ing, 2917 Eastport Rd. S.E., Dennison,
OH 44621, mausting@roadrunner.com.
Moroccan Reunion Assn. (Joint
Services), Sept. 9-13, Raleigh, N.C. Con-
tact Robert Sieborg, 2717 N. 120th Ave., AA
Omah aa a, NE68164, (402) 496-1498, robert rr
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Sept. 16-19, Kansas City, yy Mo. Contact
Mary Ann Froderman, (812) 446-3762,
(812) 605-0433, mafmath@juno.com @@ .
NOB/NAS NN Trinidad (USMC, Sea-
bees), Oct. 1-3, Tu TT cson, Ar AA iz. Conta nn ct F. D.
Barrett, 1448 W. WW Hwy. 16, Witts Springs,
AR 72686, (870) 496-2285, barrett27@
dishmail.net.
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Yale Ave., Irvine, CA 92604, (949) 936-
4040, cgwright@ocpl.org, wants photos
of Marines at MCASTus TT tin and MCAS
El Toro, Calif., 1890-1970, for the Or- rr
ange County Librarys historical im-
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and will be returned to the owner.
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Former Cpl Maxwell Barnes, P.O.
Box 3, Perry, ME 04667, (207) 853-4332,
wants a recruit graduation book for ff Plt
85, Parris Island, 1956.
Marine veteran Neil Cantwell, 4700
Tabor St., Apt. 5E, Wheat Ridge, CO
80033, candc1952@yahoo.com, wants a
recruit graduation photo for Plt 56,
San Diego, 1943.
Marine veteran Joseph H. Fuller Jr.,
4208 Quebec Ave., Prince George, VA VV
23875, (804) 239-5677, wants a recruit
graduation book for ff Plt 290, Parris Is-
land, 1964.
Marine veteran Robert Lynch, 5953
Iron Bridge Rd., Chatham, aa IL62629, (217)
414-4706, lurch120@aol.com, wants a
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San Diego, 1969.
Marine veteran Harry Kozlowski,
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cruit graduation book for ff Plt 2066, San
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Marine veteran Steve Toman, P.O.
Box 543, Nashville, MI 49073, wants a
recruit graduation book for ff Plt 2056,
San Diego, 1982, and issues of Wa WW ll ll a ll
Walla ll newspapers.
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Marine veteran aa Steve Toman aa , P. PPO. Box
543, Nashville, MI 49073, has Guide-
books for ff Marines, Leatherneck mag-
azines (including Pacifi ff c editions) and
Marine Corps-related books for sale.
Send three fir ff st-class stamps for com-
plete list of items.
Marine veteran Dennis Ryall, 676
Stokes Rd., Medford, dd NJ 08055, marine
24@aol.com, has a recruit graduation
book for Plt 240, Parris Island, 1962,
that he will give to any member of the
platoon.
MSgt Howard J. Fuller, USMCR
(Ret), 8903 Conway Dr., Riverside, CA
92503-2103, hjf h 27 ff 3744@prodigy.net, has
several copies of the recruit graduation
photo for Plt 28, Parris Island, 1940,
which ww he will send to any nn one who ww was in
the platoon.
SSgt James B. Benson Jr., USMC
(Ret), 1400 S. Sunkist St., SP 199, Ana-
heim, CA 92806-5624, jimsue199@msn
.com, is selling copies of his nonfiction
book, Marine Corps Detective ii s, which
recounts the experiences of CID agents
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Former Cpl Maxwell ww Barnes, P.O. PP Box
3, Perry, ME 04667, (207) 853-4332, to
hear fr ff om members of Plt 85, Parris Is-
land, 1956, and fromdrill instructors SSgt
C. L. STAN TT FORD, SSgt H. G. OLD-
LAND and SSgt L. WASLELEWSKI.
Former Sgt Bob Howell, 5320 Hor-
rocks St., Philadelphia, PA 19124, (215)
831-8324 (call collect), to hear fro ff m Ma-
rines who served with Joe MONAGHAN,
E/2/7, 1stMarDiv, KIA, Dec. 10, 1968,
Quang Nam Province, oo RVN. VV
Marine veteran George W. Gilbert,
2900 W. 340 N., Angola, IN 46703,
ggilbert@ffsbangola.com, to hear from
GySgt James Jimmy GORDON, his
platoon sergeant in PLC (Senior), MCB
Quantico, Va., 1972.
Marine veteran Ed Kitchen, (203)
484-0113, ekitch@snet.net, to hear from
members of Plt 137, Parris Island, 1960.
Marine veteran A. J. Daubenschmidt,
P.O. Box 151, Island Pond, VT 05846,
(802) 723-4037, to hear fr ff ommembers of
Wpns Co, 2/2, 2dMarDiv, MCB Camp
Lejeune, N.C., 1950-51, pictured above oo .
Marine veteran Lucian Bias, 6631
Stonely ll n yy Cotta tt ge Ct., Roanoke, VA24019,
(540) 366-8555, nanlu@cox.net, to hear
from members of Plt 149, Parris Island,
1946.
Marine veteran Bob Simonsen, 3920
Ramona Dr., Riverside, CA 92506, three
27bob@aol.com, to hear aa fromanyon nn e with tt
information on MTSgt Victor Hugo
CZEGKA KK , an aa Austria tt n aa -born Mar aa ine who ww
served from the early 1900s through the
early 1930s.
Marine veteran Thomas K. OBrien,
General Delivery, St. Louis, MO 63166,
(636) 230-4391, tkobrien1953@yahoo
.com, to hear from drill instructor Sam
RHONE, platoon honorman Ramon
COLON and members of Plt 3059, San
Diego, 1971; and from Capt David
FRANK and members of H&S Co, 3d
Service Bn, 3dMarDiv, 1972.
Marine veteran Jonathan Whitley, yy
owp9129@sbcglobal.net, to hear from ff
Marines who ww served with him from Feb-
ruary 1993 to February 1997 in 2d LAR
Bn, 2dMarDiv; 2d FSSG; and Comm
Plt, 3dMarDiv; Mountain Warf WW are ff
Training Center, rr Bridgeport, Calif., ff
andTeam Support Plt, Pohang, Korea.
Cynthia Pilgrim, pilgrim.cynthia@
yahoo.com, to hear from a Marine sta-
tionedinHonolulu, 1986-88, who worked kk
as a security guard for a local dance club
and took her on a tour of the island.
Marine veteran Stan Nieman, 22214
W. WW 58th tt Ter. TT , Shawnee, ww KS 66226, william
snieman@gmail.com, to hear from any-
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cation. Send your e-mail to: leatherneck@mca-marines.org, or write to: Mail Call Editor, P. PPO. Box 1775, Quantico, VA 22134.
If you recognize any of the Marines in this photo, A. J. Daubenschmidt would like to hear from you.
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Arthur Red SMITH, or any nn tankers
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1951-52.
Judy F. McWethy, yy 8155 E. Phillips
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7123, vickylnn@aol.com, to hear from ff
anyone nn who ww served with her father, ff 2dLt
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28th Marines, 5thMarDiv, in the tt Battle of
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GySgt Lew Souder, USMC (Ret),
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1970.
Daniel Gonzalez, (508) 826-4477,
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12 - 20 SEP - 65TH ANNIVERSARY
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What the Flag Means to Me
The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall,
Arlington Cemetery and those wh ww o gav aa e all.
Unkn kk own soldiers, kn kk own only to God, dd
Sleeping soundly beneath the sod.
Wo WW rld Wa WW r I and Wo WW rld Wa WW r II,
The resolve of the people to see us through.
Old Ironsides and Francis Scott Ke KK y, yy
Ariz ii onas sailors still buried at sea.
Fireside chats and presidential speeches,
Brav aa e young men storming Normandys beaches.
The Grand Cany nn on and Niagara Falls,
Men and women responding wh ww en du dd ty calls.
Dakotas Mount Ru RR shmore and the sacred Black Hills,
Wa WW shingtons picture on one-dollar bills.
Mother, baseball and apple pie,
Memorial Day aa and the Fourth of July. yy
Gleaming cities and tall church steeples,
The Peace Corps and the goodness of our people.
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
The Statue of Libertys torch burning bright.
Redwood fo ff rests and fr ff uited plains,
Maj a estic mountains and fi ff elds of grain.
The White House and the Capitol dome,
Be it ever so humble, America is our home.
Lincolns stout heart, men in Union blue,
Ke KK eping us as one instead of two.
The Four Freedoms speech and the Gettysburg Address,
A thriving nation that God has blessed.
Wi WW th all the problems we go through,
We WW fi ff nd strength to cope in the red, dd wh ww ite and blue.
The home of the brav aa e, the land of the fr ff ee,
These are some things the fl ff ag means to me!
To TT m and Doris Adams
Heroes
Even heroes pass fr ff om life ff to not
Ye YY t, winds still blow, ww and suns burn hot
Nor do they fi ff nd sweet comfo ff rt there
In breathing earth, and, dd not of air
But in our hearts, their names sleep safe ff
And by our deeds, we keep their fa ff ith.
John Roberts
Uniforms I Wore
Theyre rather antiqu qq ated now, ww
Those unifo ff rms I wore.
Theyre just a part of history, yy
The story of the Corps.
My herringbones hav aa e been replaced
Wi WW th cloth of mottled green,
Unlike utilities I wore
When I was a Marine.
My battle jacket chevrons
Contain no rifl ff ed red
To TT signify ff the sacrifi ff ce
Of those wh ww o fo ff ught and bled.
In fa ff ct, that battle jacket
Is off ff i ff cially retired, dd
Although it had a certain style
That past Marines admired.
The blues I once wore proudly
Are neatly stored aw aa ay aa , yy
Wi WW th photographs and souvenirs
That mark rr ed another day aa . yy
I sometimes reminisce about
Those times that are no more,
And fe ff el a certain sadness fo ff r
But, now and then, a young Marine
Wi WW ll stop to chat aw aa h ww ile
And all my mm sadness slips aw aa ay aa
And I hav aa e cause to smile.
For unifo ff rms, I realize,
Are really wh ww ats inside,
And ours are made of honor
Thats tightly stitched with pride.
Though mine may aa just be relics now, ww
To TT me theyre much, much more.
A cherished bit of history, yy
R. A. Gannon
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