Some things about this story dont sound right, though
He called the deployed 11th Marines from a MEB. Back then, it was a MAB, and why on Earth would it come from the Pacific when Camp Lejuene was right up the road?
Bad memories? I trust the magazine it was writte in but if I heard this on the street said this way, I’d call a poser alert!
Marines were putting up camps on the golf course, and anywhere else they found open space for assembly. I was only a watcher, and have no idea about from where and why?
This didn't come from the magazine.
Eyes of an Eagle. I don’t know RB. Perhaps some of our Marines that participated in that mission can shed some further light on the articles accuracy.
[QUOTE RaceBannon]”Some things about this story dont sound right, though
He called the deployed 11th Marines from a MEB. Back then, it was a MAB, and why on Earth would it come from the Pacific when Camp Lejuene was right up the road?
Bad memories? I trust the magazine it was writte in but if I heard this on the street said this way, I’d call a poser alert!”[UN-QUOTE]
REPLY: FYI it was MEB (google), but I actually didn’t know or cared what we were called back then, MEB or MAB, I was a naive 19 y/o corporal.
As Camp LeJeune being right up the road, in hindsight I wish they would of sent them instead of us, but it wasn’t mine to question, just do and die.
The only memory inaccuracy in my sea story was the Nike missiles, they were Hawks.
“... In modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway