What is a Marine

We are the finest fighting force this world has ever known.

I was born in a foxhole.  My mother is Anger and my father is Pain.  Each moment that I live am a threat upon the life of my country's enemies I'm a rough-looking, tough-talking soldier of the sea.  I'm cocky, self centered, overbearing, and I do not know the meaning of fear, for I am fear itself.  I am a green amphibious monster made of blood and guts, who arose from the sea to prey upon enemies across the globe.  I feed upon anti-Americanism whenever it may arise - my hate makes me grow stronger.  And when my time comes, I will die a glorious death on the battlefield, giving my life for my God, my country and my Corps.  We live like soldiers, talk like sailors, and slap the shit out of both.  We stole the eagle from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy and the rope from the Army.  On the seventh day, while God rested, we overran His perimeter, "borrowed" the globe, and we've been running the show ever since.  Killer by day, lover by night, drunkard by choice....Marines by God!

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME

Enjoying one moment at a time accepting hardship as the pathway to peace taking as he did this sinful world as it is not as I would have it trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to his will that I may be resonably happy in this life and supremely happy with him forever in, Heaven Amen.                                

HE IS A MARINE

When America was nothing but a patriot's dream, they called for the best, for America's cream. In the heat of battle, they forged the corps that protects our homes and guards our shores. Though years have passed and our countries grown they are still the best America's own. With courage and strength, battles far and wide, they fought with courage, and served with pride. Now we send a Marine, to rest by their side he lived and guarded, the American dream, And he gave his all, he is a Marine the rifle's echoed is fading away Taps has sounded, the end of his day the flag is folded, and passed to his wife. We mourn his passing, and remember his life. One of the few, one of America's best. One of the proud, he stood to the test. He's never forgotten, he's never alone, and the corps will always remember its own he stood strong, on him we could lean, and he gave his all, he is a Marine. 

Books to read on 1^st Recon Marines

Reluctant Warrior

A Marine’s true story duty  and heroism in Vietnam by the spring of 1970, American troops had been ordered to pull out of Vietnam, and the Marines of 1^st Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel “wild Bill” Drumright were assigned to cover the withdrawal of 1^st Marine Division. The Marines of 1^st Recon Bn operated in teams of six or seven men. Heavily armed, the teams fought a multitude of bitter engagements with a numerically superior and increasingly aggressive enemy. Michael C. Hodgins served in Company C, 1^st Recon Bn (Rein), as a platoon leader. In powerful, graphic prose, he chronicles his experience as a patrol leader in myriad combat situations from hasty ambush to emergency extraction to prisoner snatch to combined arms ambush. Story by Michael C. Hodgins                                                                                 

Hill 488 The harrowing  true story as told by one of its survivors. On June 13, 1966, men of the 1^st Recon Battalion, 1^st Marine Division were stationed on Hill 488. Before the week was over, they would fight the battle that would make them the most highly decorated small unit in the entire history of the U.S. military, winning a Congressional Medal of Honor, four Navy Crosses, thirteen Silver Stars, and eighteen Purple Hearts some of them posthumously.  By Ray Hildreth and Charles W. Sasser