One Marine's View

Navy Launches First Ever Drone From Carrier

 
The U.S. Navy for the first time launched a drone from an aircraft carrier in what officials hailed as a historic milestone in naval aviation.

One Marine asking for help and making a difference

You may remember this story about Sgt. Al Brenner who like many of our wounded warriors, find themselves in a hard place only to have some turn to suicide. I contacted the warrior after I heard of his story and as an update, he now has a home! Al has broken the code on the specifics in making a difference and wants to tell the world. I wonder why the government & country he went to war for isn’t listening to him? This is one Marine making a difference and he tells us how below.

 

I asked Al, “How can I help your efforts?”

 

The Marines helping out an Army hero

Marine Commandant Helps Soldier Receive Arm Transplants - You may have read it here on One Marine's View when it happend. Here is a video of an update.

 

Time for a C-Gar!

3 Fired Over Fatal Mortar Training Explosion

by Bryant Jordan on May 9, 2013

Seven weeks after a night time training program in Nevada turned deadly for seven Marines, three officers with command responsibility, or oversight of the training mission, have been fired.

Monday? No it's Motto Monday

If you are watching this and are home or at most at work, remember, your Monday isn't really that bad. You are not dealing with extreme weather, crappy environment or even more so, people trying to kill you. Kinda puts the "bad Monday" in perspective now doesnt it? Remember those fighting, many have forgot we are here.

Make sure you call her - Mothers Day

5 Things You Wish You Could Give Your Mom For Mother’s Day

May. 10, 2013

By Brian Donovan

I used to be adventurous with Mother’s Day gifts. One year I gave my mom a few strawberry bushes that she could plant in the backyard. It seemed really sweet until the ensuing rash on her hands made it clear that she was allergic to strawberries, and the ensuing patch of lifeless brown dirt made it clear that strawberries don’t grow in Boston in the spring.

Somthing to get your weekend started right

Corpsman to receive Silver Star at Pendleton on Friday

It’s been a year since Hospital Corpsman 1st Class (FMF) Benny Flores was thrown from the back of a pickup truck in southwest Afghanistan by a suicide-bomb blast. Since then, he’s had some time to reflect on what followed — about 20 minutes of chaos, during which his valor under enemy fire earned him a Silver Star.

But his reflection on the April 2012 attack in Zaranj, the capital of Nimruz province, centers around one man.

“The one Marine we lost,” Flores said.

The gift of aggression

"What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has been given a gift in life. Some people have a gift for science and some have a flair for art. And warriors have been given the gift of aggression. They would no more misuse this gift than a doctor would misuse his healing arts, but they yearn for the opportunity to use their gift to help others. These people, the ones who have been blessed with the gift of aggression and a love for others, are our sheepdogs. These are our warriors.

50 Rules for Dads of Daughters

Some great rules for Dadiooos of all ages. Its amazing how fast those lil warriors grow up. One minute your living pay check to pay check, and they are babies, the next minute they are teen agers and becomming young adults. Dont blink Dads, it goes fast and yes, your gonna miss this. (listen to this while you read the below)(by Michael Mitchell)

1. Love her mom. Treat her mother with respect, honor, and a big heaping spoonful of public displays of affection. When she grows up, the odds are good she’ll fall in love with and marry someone who treats her much like you treated her mother. Good or bad, that’s just the way it is. I’d prefer good.