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OOOH-RAH !!!
Welcome all Marines ! Former Marines, active Marines, friends and family of Marines, spouses, and so on .
This group is for anyone who has something positive to say to or about the Marine Corps. If you have something you want to share, share it. If you have something you want to say, say it. We support all of our troops, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and especially Marines. There is another web-site where they are a lot more active and it is
Togetherweserved.Marines.com, they also have sites for all the other branches of service, where you can join for free, add your profile page, and possibly re-connect with buddies that you served with, go check it out, but tell them I sent ya o.k.? Ha ha, Semper Fi Marines !
This group is for anyone who has something positive to say to or about the Marine Corps. If you have something you want to share, share it. If you have something you want to say, say it. We support all of our troops, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and especially Marines. There is another web-site where they are a lot more active and it is
Togetherweserved.Marines.com, they also have sites for all the other branches of service, where you can join for free, add your profile page, and possibly re-connect with buddies that you served with, go check it out, but tell them I sent ya o.k.? Ha ha, Semper Fi Marines !
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Today in Marine Corps history ,...
Today in Marine Corps History - 1915 - Marines participated in the Battle of Fort Riviere during the occupation of Haiti. - 1955 - A memorial honoring the 4th Marine Brigade was dedicated at Belleau Wood, France.
you can always read more , at Marine Corps association on FB ! Try it , you'll like it !
you can always read more , at Marine Corps association on FB ! Try it , you'll like it !
A LETTER FROM THE MOUNTAINS
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Many hugs and much love to all of mine... Meems/emom/Paula
This is just wrong ,...
taken from a report on the protest in Oakland , occupy , I think they ought to be shot !
HEADS UP... ALERT
HEADS UP ALERT!!!! HEADS UP
posted less than a minute ago
Today I received a catalog from FINGERHUT advising I had been PRE-APPROVED FOR CREDIT.
The front cover (black background with wide yellow banner) had spot for an attached credit card.
IF there was a credit card attached to the cover, it was no longer there. However, the catalog has my name, addy, customer number and a catalog number in at least two places.
I've reported this situation to the state police at/about 1610 hours today's date of 2012-1-06. (DispT.)
I have been doing a lot of checking.... PLEASE, PLEASE...be advised that if anyone uses the numbers assigned to you, you will be billed and held responsible for the amounts and interest... verified
Catalog can be years old and the above WILL STIL LAPPLY. verified
I called Better Business Bureau.... Company has had numerous complaints and per the BBB "closed down"... per BBB recordings (between 1600 and 1700 hours today's date)
This coming Monday, I will call the KY State Attorney General's office and the Owsley County Prosecutor.
As always with this type of post, I understand if the M/M's of the group remove it.
Paula Rice... aka meems/emom/mmm
posted less than a minute ago
Today I received a catalog from FINGERHUT advising I had been PRE-APPROVED FOR CREDIT.
The front cover (black background with wide yellow banner) had spot for an attached credit card.
IF there was a credit card attached to the cover, it was no longer there. However, the catalog has my name, addy, customer number and a catalog number in at least two places.
I've reported this situation to the state police at/about 1610 hours today's date of 2012-1-06. (DispT.)
I have been doing a lot of checking.... PLEASE, PLEASE...be advised that if anyone uses the numbers assigned to you, you will be billed and held responsible for the amounts and interest... verified
Catalog can be years old and the above WILL STIL LAPPLY. verified
I called Better Business Bureau.... Company has had numerous complaints and per the BBB "closed down"... per BBB recordings (between 1600 and 1700 hours today's date)
This coming Monday, I will call the KY State Attorney General's office and the Owsley County Prosecutor.
As always with this type of post, I understand if the M/M's of the group remove it.
Paula Rice... aka meems/emom/mmm
Always Rememeber
For all of our brothers who lost their lives today in 1941...God keep them Semper Fi.
Reckless - a Marine Hero
Reckless - a Marine Hero
Reckless was a packhorse during the Korean war, and she carried re-coilless rifles, ammunition and supplies to Marines. Nothing too unusual about that, lots of animals got pressed into doing pack chores in many wars. But this horse did something more…. During the battle for a location called Outpost Vegas, this mare made 50 trips up and down the hill, on the way up she carried ammunition, and on the way down she carried wounded soldiers… What was so amazing? Well she made every one of those trips without anyone leading her. I can imagine a horse carrying a wounded soldier, being smacked on the rump at the top of the hill, and heading back to the “safety” of the rear.
But to imagine the same horse, loaded with ammunition, and trudging back to the battle where artillery is going off, without anyone leading her is unbelievable. To know that she would make 50 of those trips is unheard of. Hell, how many horses would even make it back to the barn once, let alone return to you in the field one single time.
She was retired at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Pendleton where a General issued the following order…she was never to carry any more weight on her back except her own blankets. She died in 1968 at the age of 20.
How bad was the battle for Outpost Vegas…. Artillery rounds fell at the rate of 500 per hour, and only two men made it out alive without wounds. Just two. And a horse, and she was wounded twice.
Reckless was a packhorse during the Korean war, and she carried re-coilless rifles, ammunition and supplies to Marines. Nothing too unusual about that, lots of animals got pressed into doing pack chores in many wars. But this horse did something more…. During the battle for a location called Outpost Vegas, this mare made 50 trips up and down the hill, on the way up she carried ammunition, and on the way down she carried wounded soldiers… What was so amazing? Well she made every one of those trips without anyone leading her. I can imagine a horse carrying a wounded soldier, being smacked on the rump at the top of the hill, and heading back to the “safety” of the rear.
But to imagine the same horse, loaded with ammunition, and trudging back to the battle where artillery is going off, without anyone leading her is unbelievable. To know that she would make 50 of those trips is unheard of. Hell, how many horses would even make it back to the barn once, let alone return to you in the field one single time.
She was retired at the Marine Corps Base in Camp Pendleton where a General issued the following order…she was never to carry any more weight on her back except her own blankets. She died in 1968 at the age of 20.
How bad was the battle for Outpost Vegas…. Artillery rounds fell at the rate of 500 per hour, and only two men made it out alive without wounds. Just two. And a horse, and she was wounded twice.
