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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!

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.

BANANAS & MILK DUDS

Below is an article written by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated. He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. If you aren't laughing out loud by the time you get to 'Milk Duds,' your sense of humour is seriously broken.

Now this message is for America 's most famous athletes:

Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have. John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity, let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity...

Disfigured veteran deals with disrespect at home - American Hero - Freedom isnt free

Vietnam Casualty Notification Officer

 

In my 76th year, the events of my life appear to me, from time to time, as a series of vignettes. Some were significant; most were trivial. War is the seminal event in the life of everyone that has endured it. Though I fought in Korea and the Dominican Republic and was wounded there, Vietnam was my war. Now 42 years have passed and, thankfully, I rarely think of those days in Cambodia, Laos, and the panhandle of North Vietnam where small teams of Americans and Montangards fought much larger elements of the North Vietnamese Army. by LtCol George Goodson, USMC (Ret)

Enjoy your day, Marines are fighting for you as we speak - Motto Monday

Every Day is Memorial Day-Motto Monday

Marine experiences first enemy contact

Lance Cpl. Kevin Romero, rifleman with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, looks for a suspected insurgent who had engaged the Marines while they were conducting a sweep of a compound near Patrol Base Boldak March 3. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt Bobby J. Yarbrough)

The air was still and the fading sounds of morning prayers echoed throughout the valley as our convoy lumbered to a halt. The lead vehicle had become stuck in a field and couldn’t move. The patrol leader, Sgt. Brandon Bond, radioed to Marines in the stopped vehicle and asked if they could move. It was almost 5 a.m. and Bond knew people would soon begin to leave their homes and move about the city.

The vehicle was immobile, so we dismounted and began to patrol on foot to two compounds which lay just 400 meters to our north. The Marines with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, had watched the compounds over the last few weeks and believed insurgents were using them for refuge.

Part 2 (from a OMV reader) Salem woman meets POW

(From a One Marine's View Reader) "The story about the POW bracelet hit home for me because Lt Norrington was my division officer and I helped launch the aircraft that he was shot down in.I am the guy that sent you (Maj Pain) the boxes when you were in Iraq".Howard L. 

"he asked why I was late I told him the truth, that I was with a young lady"