Lady Marines
Posted in: Training, Video, WWIIProduced by the Marine Corps Photographic Section of the Marine Corps Schools, this documentary on the formation of the Marine Corps Womens Reserve in 1943 was included on the show “2nd Reel” a public access show from Athens Georgia in the late 1990’s. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6osNgVZDt0] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbEkE7foQbc]
Pacific Force Closes In On Japanese 1945 Newsreel …and 1st Women Marines to Serve Overseas Arrive in Hawaii
Posted in: WMACheck out the Women Marines arrival at 3:23 into the newsreel [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZr60s2E7H8]
Paying Back a Karmic Debt
Posted in: UncategorizedIn the late 1970s when I was a young PFC fresh out of Military Police School, the Marine Corps sent me to Camp Pendleton via LAX. The bus from LAX dropped me in downtown Oceanside and I had no instructions on how to get to the base. So there I was…21 years old and a