“This is no ordinary time,” Eleanor Roosevelt said as Europe was being engulfed by war. Stanley Gale Jones, a true survivor, has lived no ordinary life. In 1943, when he was a 17-year-old drifter in his own village, Jones resolved to fight for his country and...
I Joined the US Marine Corps Sept ’65. I was assigned to 5th MarDiv in the Spring of ’66 and went to Vietnam in July of that year. In Sept ’66 I was wounded and transferred to Great Lakes Naval Hospital until May ’67. On discharge from the hospital I went to Schools...
Since the days of the American Revolution, the Armed Forces have served as a place in which conflicts of race could be put aside for the protection of the nation and its people. Through a career that spanned 31 years, Brigadier General Joseph V. Medina served his...
War: Korean War, 1950-1953 Branch: Marine Corps Unit: 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division Service Location: Camp Pendleton, California; Korea Paul Steppe, a Marine infantry corporal serving in Korea, saw fierce action, punctuated by long nights...
2018 Paralympic Winter Games, Marine Corps, sled hockey First-time Paralympian Served two tours in Afghanistan Luke McDermott was injured by an IED while on patrol in Afghanistan in June 2010 with the 1st Battalion 6th Marines. He began his sled hockey career while...
I was hit by a hand grenade shrapnel during assault on an enemy bunker to my immediate front. The bunker was about 1/4 of the way down a hill which we were attempting to take and later in the day it was taken by the platoon (Baker Co. 1st Platoon). The shrapnel...
