Semper Fidelis

Thank you for your service.. happy veterans day!

Happy belated birthday! My 238th was my favorite so far, I got to meet Colonel Oliver North.

He's awesome! I've met R. Lee Ermey and Commandants Krulack and Jones (and their Sergeants Major of the Marine Corps at the time).

R. Lee Ermey was our guest speaker at a Mess Night at the Gunny's Course and I was the Protocol Chief for the CG of MCAGTC 29 Palms when the Commandants came through. I've got their coins.

Lots of great people got their start standing on the yellow footprints!

You are making me jealous again. I just missed getting to meet R. Lee Ermey a few years ago. Tom Clancy wrote a book about the Marine Corps and featured General Krulak, my parents bought the book for me at a thrift store. As a young one, I read that book over and over, and is part of why I joined. I still have that book.

I've served with a lot with a lot of good men from those footprints. I've also served with a few that should have gone home. These days I really worry, its rarer and rarer to get a boot drop of good Marines.

That's a hell of a story about the Tom Clancy book! I will have to be on the look out for that one!
Stay strong, the nation needs warriors like you out there. From what I heard, it was pretty dark under the Carter administration but got better under Reagan.

http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Expeditionary-Clancys-Military-Reference/dp/0425154548/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453784231&sr=8-1&keywords=tom+clancy+marine

I wont quit. Someone has to carry the torch through the rough times, or all will be lost. Sometimes I feel alone. Many times I feel my hands tied with all the bull going around about hazing and harassment. Mothers of America wants us to keep a bunch of overly sensitive pu$$ys and treat them with kid gloves and make sure they complain properly if they don't feel like something is 'fair'. I'll stop before i get too far up on my soapbox.