I may be a retired squid, but I love the Corps. Hell, I was even a Devil Pup (cringe!) back in ’68 at Pendleton, 2nd ITR. In the Navy, my second boat was the USS Lewis B Puller ( FFG-23). As part of the Precommissioning crew I attended Team Training at Dam Neck, VA, and while there we traveled to Saluda to see LtGen Puller’s home and visited with his widow for a fine afternoon of beer and boiled peanuts.
Miss Virginia was an amazing woman, and it was easy to see how she provided Chesty the…
I may be a retired squid, but I love the Corps. Hell, I was even a Devil Pup (cringe!) back in ’68 at Pendleton, 2nd ITR. In the Navy, my second boat was the USS Lewis B Puller ( FFG-23). As part of the Precommissioning crew I attended Team Training at Dam Neck, VA, and while there we traveled to Saluda to see LtGen Puller’s home and visited with his widow for a fine afternoon of beer and boiled peanuts.
Miss Virginia was an amazing woman, and it was easy to see how she provided Chesty the…
On the Occasion of the Marine Corps’ Semiquincentennial