3/3 RVN Ass’n  Vol  1  Issue 4    09/01/2005                                                                                                Page 3

Sample page from 6/18/69, this is subsequent

to Gio Linh on 6/17/69       Mike Co. UD

Actual sizes are full 8.5x11 pages

His Commanding Officer:

A fine specimen of a drunken, brawling, HMMWV-stealing, woman-corrupter with an incredibly accurate Seiko watch, a finely honed razor sharp K-Bar and a salty cammie cover.

What others have said:

Congress:

Marines are overpaid, overrated tax burdens who are indispensable since they volunteer to go anywhere at any time and kill whoever they're told to kill, as long as they can drink, brawl, steal HMMWVs, corrupt women and sing dirty songs while wearing cammies, oversized knives, Seiko watches and really screwed-up 8-point covers that don't look like the Army's.

Ronald Reagan, former President of the United States:

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they've ever made a difference in the world.  Marines don't have that problem."

General Douglas MacArthur, US Army:

". . . these Marines have the swagger, confidence and hardness that must have been in Stonewall Jackson's Army of the Shenandoah. They remind me of the Coldstream Guards at Dunkirk."

Admiral Chester Nimitz, US Navy, on the Marine Corps' battle for Iwo

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue"

General Douglas MacArthur, US Army:

"I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front.  There is not a finer fighting organization in the world!"

LtCol T R Fehrenbach, USA, in "This Kind of War":

"The man who will go where his colors go without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in a jungle or a mountain range, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America.  He is the stuff of which legends are made.  His pride is his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face, and his obedience is to his orders. As a legionnaire, he held the gates of civilization for the classical world ... today he is called United States Marine."

(Continued)

A Marine as seen by......

Himself:

A handsome, buff, highly trained professional killer and female idol who carries a finely honed K-Bar Knife, wears a crisp 8-point cammie cover and is always on time due to the absolute reliability of his Seiko digital watch.

His Wife:

A stinking, gross, foul mouthed lovable bum who arrives back at home every few months with a sea-bag full of dirty clothes, a huge Seiko watch, an oversized knife, a filthy hat and hornier then hell.

Headquarters Marine Corps:

A drunken, brawling, HMMWV-stealing, woman-corrupter who wears a Seiko watch, an unauthorized K-Bar and a squared-away cover.