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Gunny G: THIS MARINE DON’T SEMPER FI !!!!!
Gunny G: THIS MARINE DON’T SEMPER FI !!!!! To me, Semper Fi is not an abbreviation for Semper Fidelis, and it smacks of the old saying the hippies had back in the ’60s with their “Sorry ‘Bout...
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Marine general opposes repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
Gen. James Amos, who is poised to become the new Marine Corps commandant, opposes repealing the current “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that bars openly gay and lesbian soldiers from the military. The...
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Gunny G: George B. Clark Newsletter…
Friends I haven’t spent much time lately sending out any information as to what I have been up to. Various reasons: mostly lies, but essentially, my email system can’t handle much in the way of general...
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Gunny G: FIRST MARINE SERGEANT MAJOR ~ EARLY MARINES ENLISTED RANKS
EARLY MARINES ENLISTED RANKS — FIRST MARINE SERGEANT MAJOR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EARLY MARINES ENLISTED RANKS FIRST MARINE SERGEANT MAJOR There evolved from the Continental Marines of...
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Gunny G: THE ORDERLY SERGEANT – USMC
Gunny G: THE ORDERLY SERGEANT – USMC THE ORDERLY SERGEANT – USMC When the Marine Corps was reactivated in 1798, the American Navy consisted of a handful of frigates under orders to patrol the Atlantic...
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Gunny G: 11 Attempts To Disband The Marines Or Merge With The Army…
THROUGH THE YEARS… “Beginning with the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Marines had survived eleven serious proposals to disband the Corps or merge it with the Army.5″ “…Secretary of the Navy James...
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Gunny G: One Marine’s Remarks Regarding D-Day At Normandy, etc.
Sunday, June 06, 2004 ONE MARINE’S REMARKS REGARDING D-DAY, NORMANDY, ETC. This weekend (June 2004) marks the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion of WW II. There has been much ado in the media...
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Gunny G: “WORLD WAR ONE MARINES” My Favorite Globe and Anchor Story
“WORLD WAR ONE MARINES” My Favorite Globe and Anchor Story “Pershing was mercilessly thinning the ranks of senior officers he considered too old or infirm for field command. Brigadier General Doyen was...
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Gunny G: WHY THE TITLE “GLOBE AND ANCHOR” ON MY SITE?
Gunny G: WHY THE TITLE “GLOBE and ANCHOR” ON MY SITE? Many have asked why I have not indicated, eagle, globe and anchor, rather than just “GLOBE and ANCHOR,” implying that I have erred. No error, it...
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Gunny G: “A NEW CORPS WITHOUT GUNNERY SERGEANTS”
Friday, February 06, 2004 Gunny G: “A NEW CORPS WITHOUT GUNNERY SERGEANTS” … by R.W. Gaines, GnySgt USMC (Ret.) I have long known that the Marine dress blues were redesigned in 1947, but I was not...
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Marine in drunken incident with girl, 14
Marine in drunken incident with girl, 14Townsville Bulletin Australia ^ | 5th October 2010 | Alexis GillhamPosted on Monday, October 04, 2010 8:49:27 PM by naturalman1975A US marine here as part of the...
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MILINET: Marines of Conscience or Homosexual Marines By: Maj. Anthony F....
ANTHONY F MILAVIC AT (703) 297-6434 FOR REAL ESTATE IN VA, MD, & DC **************************************************** 21 October 2010 MILINET: Marines of Conscience or Homosexual Marines By:...
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Gunny G’s Marines History and Traditions: Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB...
Journal of Non-lethal Combatives, Dec 2001EJMAS Tip JarAnthony J. Drexel Biddle, USMC CQB Pioneer By Joseph R. Svinth http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_Svinth_1201.htm Copyright © EJMAS 2001. All rights...
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Sen. Webb Advocates Beefing Up Navy, Cutting Back Army And Marines
Sen. Webb Advocates Beefing Up Navy, Cutting Back Army And Marines DefenseAlert, Oct. 27, 2010 — Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) today advocated scaling back the size of the Army and the Marine Corps while...
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GUNNY G: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES !!!!!
Happy Birthday Marines 1775 Vs. 1798 November 3, 2007 Gunny G Edit Leave a comment Go to comments i 1 Votes http://www.angelfire.com/ca/dickg/truebday.html Happy Birthday Marines and Others!!!!! THE...
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Obama forgets the Coast Guard
President Obama needed a little help from the troops in Afghanistan on Friday as he thanked the military branches for their work but forgot to mention the Coast Guard.“I think we’ve got every service...
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A team of heavily armed Marine Corps security personnel have been sent to the...
Free RepublicBrowse · Search Pings · Mail News/ActivismTopics · Post ArticleSkip to comments.A team of heavily armed Marine Corps security personnel have been sent to the U.S. Embassy in CairoCNN...
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Gunny G: On Col Heinl’s Soldiers of the Sea…
NOTE: Retrieved from an old Gunny G webpage… ***** ***** I like the book, Soldiers Of The Sea, by Robert Debs Heinl, Jr., Colonel, USMC, for many reasons. I personally consider it to be the most...
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Unbelievable: US Marines preparing to indoctrinate soldiers to accept...
Every commander executing a plan that he considers bad or disastrous is criminal. He must point out the flaws, insist that it be changed and at last resort resign rather than be the instrument of the...
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Gunny G: One Marine’s Remarks Regarding D-Day At Normandy, etc. (via ~...
Sunday, June 06, 2004 ONE MARINE'S REMARKS REGARDING D-DAY, NORMANDY, ETC. This weekend (June 2004) marks the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion of WW II. There has been much ado in the media...
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Gunny G: Let’s be damn sure that no man’s ghost will ever say “If your...
et's be damn sure that no man's ghost will ever say "If your training program had only done its job." I have been advised by an e-mail correspondent (namely, Dr. R. E. Sullivan, PhD and Col USMC (Ret.)...
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Gunny G: Semper Fi Does Not Mean Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful) (via ~...
Semper Fi Vs. "SEMPER FIDELIS"! I recall vividly a day in 1953 at Tent Camp #3, at CJHP, when M/Sgt Tony Virginia pointed out to me that "Semper Fi" did not mean Semper Fidelis; it was not an...
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SSgt Frank Wuterich and Our Future in Iraq (Defend Our Marines Exclusive)
Here in the United States, Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich is waiting for court-martial. He has been waiting five years. In Baghdad, State Department officials negotiating a new Status of...
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(“Well, the marines do not belong to the navy, contrary to what many people...
Why not continue just using marines for this? Well, the marines do not belong to the navy, contrary to what many people think. Both the navy and marines are part of the Department of the Navy (the...
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THE DAY I STOLE THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS’ GLASSES CASE
Copyright: 2005 Dr. R. E. Sullivan MAY 1, 1965. THE DAY I STOLE THE COMMANDANT OF THE MARINE CORPS’ GLASSES CASE Until the recent death of General Greene, and the even more recent announcement that, as...
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Special Operations Forces Organize Against Obama
Larry Bailey and others from across the spectrum of US special forces have banded together to form Special Operations Speaks. I’ll let them speak for themselves: Honorably discharged veterans of the...
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Gunny G: WE’RE ALL “GRUNTS” NOW !!!!! …(Maybe?)
Every Marine A Rifleman: Under New Policy, All Marines To Receive Infantry MOS | The Duffel Blog October 14, 2012 Gunny G Edit Leave a comment QUANTICO, VA – The Marine Corps is debating a...
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Prison Planet.com » New Documents Show Military Is Flying Drones Throughout US
Thousands of pages of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents released under the Freedom Of Information Act highlight that the military is extensively flying surveillance drones in...
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Obama sending more F-16s and Tanks to Muslim Brotherhood Egypt
Why is Obama arming the enemies of freedom? This cat is dangerous and scary. Why the support of Islamic revolutions whose stated goal is sharia and a universal caliphate? What’s he doing to protect the...
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DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Law Enforcement …
DoD Issues Instructions on Military Support of Civilian Pakalert Press ^ | April 15, 2013Posted on Monday, April 15, 2013 9:22:23 PM by True Grit The Department of Defense has issued an instruction...
View ArticleRIBBON CREEK: THE AFTERMATH…“BOOT CAMP” 1956 AND AFTER…
Web Hosting by Brinkster Gunny G’s MARINES GLOBE and ANCHOR Sites & Forums By R.W. “Dick” Gaines GnySgt USMC (Ret.) 1952 (Plt #437)–1972 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED!...
View ArticleCAPTAIN JIMMY BONES and HIS DEVIL DOG MARINES
CAPTAIN JIMMY BONES and HIS DEVIL DOG MARINES Captain Jimmy Bones And His Devil-Dog Marines ‘Twas winter time in Quantico in nineteen-twenty-two, The slum was pretty rough that night, and all the men...
View ArticleGunny G: Semper Fi Does Not Mean Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful)
Semper Fi Vs. “SEMPER FIDELIS”! I recall vividly a day in 1953 at Tent Camp #3, at CJHP, when M/Sgt Tony Virginia pointed out to me that “Semper Fi” did not mean Semper Fidelis; it was not an...
View ArticleGunny G: Brevet Rank USMC, etc.
Friday, September 12, 2003 THE BREVET RANK… Brevet Rank In The Civil War Brevet rank, usually an honor, was borrowed from the British and introduced into the American army during the Revolutionary War....
View ArticleHistory Of The Marine Gunnery Sergeant Rank!
History:The Gunnery Sergeant Rank USMCby R.W. “Dick” Gaines, GySgt USMC Ret.1952-72 All Rights Reserved-Copyright 1998 The rank of the venerable Gunnery Sergeant is now unique to the Marine Corps. In...
View ArticleGunny G: That’s Marine With A Capital “M”!
Gunny G’s GLOBE and ANCHOR Sites & Forums! By R.W. “Dick” Gaines GySgt USMC (Ret.) 1952-72 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! That’s MARINE WITH A CAPITAL “M”! Lately, notice has been taken of several recent...
View ArticleGunny G: My Memories of George C. Scott, Sgt USMC
George C. “Patton” Scott, who died Wednesday of an aneurysm at age 71, and I were good friends and frequent liberty buddies while serving together as three-stripers at the Washington Marine Barracks...
View ArticleWant to Cut Spending? Abolish the Marines! Barf Alert
Want to Cut Spending? Abolish the Marines! Barf AlertBlog Critics Magazine ^ | July 14, 2010 | Alan KurtzPosted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 2:54:40 AM by 2ndDivisionVet U.S. government spending is out...
View ArticleGunny G’s Notes On USMC Politics, History, Inter-Service Relations, etc.
SOME ‘Gunny G’ NOTES ON MARINE CORPS HISTORY, POLITICS, INTER-SERVICE RELATIONS, ETC. “For your information the Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it...
View ArticleWhy A Marine Corps
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently said that he had ordered a review of the future role of the Marine Corps amid “anxiety” that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had turned the service into a...
View ArticleSubject: USMC Online Social Media Guidance for Unofficial Internet Posts
Subject: USMC Online Social Media Guidance for Unofficial Internet Posts 22 August 2010 ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDANCE For UNOFFICIAL INTERNET POSTS 1. Overview a. This guidance is provided for Marines...
View ArticleGunny G: Taps for Master Gunnery Sergeant John Marjanov, USMC…
24 May 2002 MILINET: Taps for Master Gunnery Sergeant John Marjanov, USMC ======================================== Master Gunnery Sergeant John NMN Marjanov enlisted in the United States Marine Corps...
View ArticleGunny G: A QUICK Story, USMC, The Great War, etc.
And Now…A Quick Story… June 22 2006 at 10:42 AM Who’s Who In Marine Corps History SgtMaj John H. Quick Ref http://hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil/HD/Historical/Whos_Who.htm#PQR”…...
View ArticleGunny G: Let’s be damn sure that no man’s ghost will ever say “If your...
reblog Let’s be damn sure that no man’s ghost will ever say “If your training program had only done its job.” I have been advised by an e-mail correspondent (namely, Dr. R. E. Sullivan, PhD and Col...
View Article“PULLER”
“PULLER” “Amid a nationwide public outcry regarding the whole matter of the drownings in particular and Marine Corps training practices in general, LtGen Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller was recalled to active...
View ArticleEnlisted Marine’s Candidacy Unique, Important
Marine Corps sergeant Jesse Kelly led a squad of infantry Marines during the initial invasion of Iraq, received the Combat Action Ribbon and brought all the Marines under his charge home alive. In late...
View ArticleRetired General Lobs Bomb at Military Benefits
Earlier this year, retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro chaired a panel that helped pave the way for a series of cost-cutting measures at the Pentagon, including efforts to cut overhead and...
View Article‘Chosin’: GI Film Festival Winner Hits Theaters
“Chosin,” winner of Best Documentary Feature at the 2010 GI Film Festival opens in theaters this week. Produced by combat decorated Marines and NY City friends Brian Iglesias and Anton Sattler, this...
View ArticleGUNNY G: That Famous Presidential Marines Quote?
NOW… ABOUT THAT FAMOUS MARINES PRESIDENTIAL QUOTE! “Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they’ve made a difference. The Marines don’t have that problem.” –Author Unknown President Ronald...
View ArticleGunny G: A Few Good Men ~ The Damn Few… (via ~ The GUNNY “G” BLOG & E-MAIL ~)
reblog Gunny G: A Few Good Men ~ The Damn Few “You can’t handle the truth. Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? … Continue...
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