Posted on 11/21/2001 11:08:32 AM PST by Britton J Wingfield
But....(grumble, gripe, bitch) dadgummit, his personal valor and courage were in keeping with the highest tradition of the United States Marine Corps, not the United States Naval Service!
Depend on FDR to foul up the citation!!
Sorry, Swabbies, I just like to keep it straight!!
US Navy and US Marines, perfect together!!
Me, too, Norb!!
I thank God that I made that decision to join in the ranks of the finest fighting force the world has ever seen.
I had GREAT news this morining!
My nephew has joined the United States Marine Corps!!
I'm so proud I could bust!!
I agree, Nitro.
It's really hard to be humble to outsiders when you know you're the best!!
And I want to take this opportunity to wish all my Swabby buddies a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
I bet that makes you a VERY PROUD uncle!!
Congratulations!
Some of the 'Old Corps' and those whom were drafted (your service number started with a couple characters from the alphabet) damn sure were designated GI.
Awaiting the following:
thereby contributing in a large measure to the total annihilation of an Taliban regiment.
As Paige — then a platoon sergeant — and his riflemen set about carefully emplacing their four water-cooled Brownings, it's unlikely anyone thought they were about to provide the definitive answer to that most desperate of questions: How many able-bodied U.S. Marines does it take to hold a hill against 2,000 desperate and motivated attackers?
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In the end, Sgt. Paige picked up the last of the 40-pound, belt-fed Brownings — the same design which John Moses Browning famously fired for a continuous 25 minutes until it ran out of ammunition at its first U.S. Army trial — and did something for which the weapon was never designed. Sgt. Paige walked down the hill toward the place where he could hear the last Japanese survivors rallying to move around his flank, the gun cradled under his arm, firing as he went.
The weapon did not fail.
Coming up at dawn, battalion executive officer Major Odell M. Conoley first discovered the answer to our question: How many able-bodied Marines does it take to hold a hill against two regiments of motivated, combat-hardened infantrymen who have never known defeat?
On a hill where the bodies were piled like cordwood, Mitchell Paige alone sat upright behind his 30-caliber Browning, waiting to see what the dawn would bring.
One hill: one Marine.
Last Medal of Honor recipient from the Battle of Guadalcanal USMC Colonel Mitchell Paige has died
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Posted on 11/16/2003 8:15:05 PM PST by ErnBatavia
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