Semper Fi
He sat in that long line of barber chairs,
And the Sargent asked him-son would you like to keep your hair?
He said 'Yes sir' as he heard those clippers buzzin hum.
And the Sargent said -well hold out your hands cuz here it comes.
Semper Fi, do or die.
So gung-ho to go and pay the price.
Heres to Leathernecks, Devil Dogs, and Jarheads.
And Parris Island in July-Semper Fi.
I sleep in my bed instead of a foxhole.
I've never heard my boss tell me to lock and load.
Ain't no bullet holes in the side of my SUV,
Because the kid next door just shipped out overseas.
Semper Fi, do or die.
So gung-ho to go and pay the price.
Heres to Leathernecks, Devil Dogs, and Jarheads.
And Parris Island in July-Semper Fi.
For the few that wear the dress Blues,
Hack up good high and tight.
Who are proud to be the first ones in the fight,
Semper Fi.
Semper Fi, do or die.
So gung-ho to go and pay the price.
Heres to Leathernecks, Devil Dogs, and Jarheads.
And Parris Island in July,
Never leave a man behind.
A Marine, a Marine for life,
Semper Fi.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
Trace Adkins tribute to Marines, Semper Fi
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Florida dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps — and counting
Hillsborough dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps — and counting
By HOWARD ALTMAN
The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 18, 2011
At Camp Leatherneck, a rugged 1,550-acre Marine Corps base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, Cpl. Aisling Feaser helps crunch intelligence information for her fellow Marines patrolling outside the wire.
Elsewhere in the camp, her sister, Cpl. Aine Feaser, helps orchestrate the complex task of making sure Marines headed back to the States get where they are going, along with their trucks, guns and other equipment.
And 7,400 miles away, on the bug-infested marshlands of Parris Island, S.C., a third Feaser sister, Niahm Cinn-Oir, is in boot camp, training to become a Marine.
Sitting on the couch of his Town 'N Country home, Tom Feaser laughs at the thought of having three daughters in the Marine Corps.
"It's funny," says Feaser, a former K-9 officer who is now a hospice nurse. "When Aine left, they picked her up at the door, and I did the typical parent thing: boo-hooed like an idiot for a little bit of time.
"When Aisling left, I boo-hooed and when Niahm left I said, 'Oh, thank God, she's gone.' "
Tom Feaser is the raw material for a sitcom. A 57-year-old Army veteran who did two years at the end of the Vietnam War, he is the single parent of five daughters.
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Hillsborough dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps
By HOWARD ALTMAN
The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 18, 2011
At Camp Leatherneck, a rugged 1,550-acre Marine Corps base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, Cpl. Aisling Feaser helps crunch intelligence information for her fellow Marines patrolling outside the wire.
Elsewhere in the camp, her sister, Cpl. Aine Feaser, helps orchestrate the complex task of making sure Marines headed back to the States get where they are going, along with their trucks, guns and other equipment.
And 7,400 miles away, on the bug-infested marshlands of Parris Island, S.C., a third Feaser sister, Niahm Cinn-Oir, is in boot camp, training to become a Marine.
Sitting on the couch of his Town 'N Country home, Tom Feaser laughs at the thought of having three daughters in the Marine Corps.
"It's funny," says Feaser, a former K-9 officer who is now a hospice nurse. "When Aine left, they picked her up at the door, and I did the typical parent thing: boo-hooed like an idiot for a little bit of time.
"When Aisling left, I boo-hooed and when Niahm left I said, 'Oh, thank God, she's gone.' "
Tom Feaser is the raw material for a sitcom. A 57-year-old Army veteran who did two years at the end of the Vietnam War, he is the single parent of five daughters.
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Hillsborough dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps
Historic Marine base gets 1st-ever female general
Historic Marine base gets 1st-ever female general
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press
Published: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 - 1:36 am
Last Modified: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 - 4:27 am
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina's Parris Island.
Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command position in a battle zone, takes charge Friday at the installation south of Beaufort.
Parris Island graduates about 20,000 Marines annually and is the only site where female enlisted Marines are trained to enter the service.
Reynolds is a native of Baltimore and a 1986 graduate of the Naval Academy. She has worn the Marine Corps uniform for 25 years.
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US MARINE CORPS / AP PHOTO
This image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps shows then Col. Loretta Reynolds, taken March 10, 2011. For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina's Parris Island. Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command position in a battle zone, takes charge Friday at the installation south of Beaufort. She was promoted to Brig. General in January 2011.
By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER
Associated Press
Published: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 - 1:36 am
Last Modified: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 - 4:27 am
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- For the first time in its 96-year history, a female general is taking charge at the famed Marine Corps training depot at South Carolina's Parris Island.
Brig. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, who is also known as the first female Marine to ever hold a command position in a battle zone, takes charge Friday at the installation south of Beaufort.
Parris Island graduates about 20,000 Marines annually and is the only site where female enlisted Marines are trained to enter the service.
Reynolds is a native of Baltimore and a 1986 graduate of the Naval Academy. She has worn the Marine Corps uniform for 25 years.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
After meltdown, Navy Cross Marine gets help he needed and support
Marines need to support fellow Marines
Posted : Saturday Jun 4, 2011 12:35:41 EDT
Jeremiah Workman was a mess.
The Navy Cross recipient — so recognized for his leadership during a gruesome 2004 firefight in Iraq — suffered from horrible nightmares and survivor’s guilt. He had flashbacks and was unable to control his temper.
After a meltdown in front of recruits at Parris Island, S.C., Workman was removed from drill instructor duty, diagnosed with PTSD and reassigned — as a janitor.
He tried to kill himself.
His wife and child moved out.
Leadership had failed him.
Then in 2007, Workman found a lifeline. Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, the newly appointed sergeant major of the Marine Corps, did what no one else had: He stepped in to help a Marine in need.
“I called his battalion sergeant major, and his first thing to me was, ‘Hey, Sergeant Major Kent, that sergeant ain’t nothing but a problem,’ ” Kent told Marines during a recent trip abroad. “I said, ‘Stop. He’s not your problem no more. He’s our problem.’ And I said, ‘Have him report to the Pentagon.’ ”
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Marines need to support fellow Marines
Posted : Saturday Jun 4, 2011 12:35:41 EDT
Jeremiah Workman was a mess.
The Navy Cross recipient — so recognized for his leadership during a gruesome 2004 firefight in Iraq — suffered from horrible nightmares and survivor’s guilt. He had flashbacks and was unable to control his temper.
After a meltdown in front of recruits at Parris Island, S.C., Workman was removed from drill instructor duty, diagnosed with PTSD and reassigned — as a janitor.
He tried to kill himself.
His wife and child moved out.
Leadership had failed him.
Then in 2007, Workman found a lifeline. Sgt. Maj. Carlton Kent, the newly appointed sergeant major of the Marine Corps, did what no one else had: He stepped in to help a Marine in need.
“I called his battalion sergeant major, and his first thing to me was, ‘Hey, Sergeant Major Kent, that sergeant ain’t nothing but a problem,’ ” Kent told Marines during a recent trip abroad. “I said, ‘Stop. He’s not your problem no more. He’s our problem.’ And I said, ‘Have him report to the Pentagon.’ ”
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Marines need to support fellow Marines
Monday, February 7, 2011
Young Marine dies of suspected case of meningitis at Parris Island
Parris Island Marine recruit dies of apparent meningitis
By Savannah Morning News
A 19-year-old Marine recruit died Saturday of a suspected case of meningitis at Parris Island, S.C.’s Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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Parris Island Marine recruit dies of apparent meningitis
By Savannah Morning News
A 19-year-old Marine recruit died Saturday of a suspected case of meningitis at Parris Island, S.C.’s Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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Parris Island Marine recruit dies of apparent meningitis
Monday, June 14, 2010
Vietnam Vet, "Rose Garden" Marine Sgt. Taliano laid to rest
Ex-Marine, S.C. resident on famous poster dies
By PATRICK DONOHUE - The Beaufort Gazette
BEAUFORT —
Sgt. Chuck Taliano was awaiting an honorable discharge at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in 1968 when a reservist writing a book about boot camp snapped a picture of him giving a recruit an “attitude readjustment.”
That cemented Taliano’s place in Corps legend.
Chuck Taliano, the mean-mugged drill instructor pictured on the Marine Corps’ ‘Rose Garden’ recruitment poster, died June 4.
The photo captured his snarling mug inches from a fresh-faced recruit with the caption, “We don’t promise you a rose garden.” It was on thousands of Marine Corps recruiting posters printed during the 1970s and 1980s.
The poster made Taliano a celebrity among Marines, said Stephen Wise, curator of the Parris Island Museum, where Taliano worked as manager of the gift shop.
“Everyone from generals to former privates would stop by to see him,” Wise said. “Everyone knew Chuck.”
Taliano, 65, died in his Beaufort home Friday after a long battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow. A memorial service was held Wednesday for Taliano at the depot’s Recruit Chapel, and he will be buried today at Beaufort National Cemetery.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ex-Marine wants to start area chapter of Women’s Marine group
Ex-Marine wants to start area chapter of Women’s Marine group
By CHERYL R. CLARKE cclarke@sungazette.com
WELLSBORO — A former Marine wants to join with others to form a chapter of a Marines association here and has invited another former Marine from the Reading area to help her.
Naudette Baldwin, 60, who was in the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam airlift, contacted Kathy VanGorder, liaison officer to the Pennsylvania Department of the Marine Corps League. VanGorder is a Wellsboro native and the daughter of Earl Russell.
The two women are planning a recruiting meeting Saturday at noon at the Babb’s Creek Inn in Morris.
Baldwin, a lance corporal, went through boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and went to Aviation Supply School in Memphis, Tenn. She was stationed at El Toro Air Base, Santa Ana, Calif.
A life member of the Women Marines Association, Baldwin said she wants to belong to a local chapter so she can participate in national events.
In order to participate in any local group activities, she would have to go to New York state, something she doesn’t want to do.
Baldwin joined the military during an era when women were rare in the armed forces. But, she said she had no problems with any of the male officers or other Marines because, by the 1960s and ‘70s, things had changed quite a bit.
“By the time I went through Parris Island, we were more or less accepted,” she said.
Baldwin was discharged in 1970 after serving her stint in aviation supply.
“If a mechanic came in for a part, I was there to supply it and had to order the parts needed, as well as help with keeping the inventory,” she said.
Her group was the last platoon that went through Parris Island before the basic training for women became the same as it is for men, Baldwin said.
“The ones right behind me had to go through the same basic training as the men,” she said. “It was still tough, which is the reason I went in, plus Vietnam was just starting and I wanted to help with the war effort.”
VanGorder, 67, told a different story of how women were treated in the military.
She also was a lance corporal when she was on active duty in the 1950s and was discharged in 1960, spending two years with the Air Wing at Cherry Point.
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By CHERYL R. CLARKE cclarke@sungazette.com
WELLSBORO — A former Marine wants to join with others to form a chapter of a Marines association here and has invited another former Marine from the Reading area to help her.
Naudette Baldwin, 60, who was in the Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam airlift, contacted Kathy VanGorder, liaison officer to the Pennsylvania Department of the Marine Corps League. VanGorder is a Wellsboro native and the daughter of Earl Russell.
The two women are planning a recruiting meeting Saturday at noon at the Babb’s Creek Inn in Morris.
Baldwin, a lance corporal, went through boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., and went to Aviation Supply School in Memphis, Tenn. She was stationed at El Toro Air Base, Santa Ana, Calif.
A life member of the Women Marines Association, Baldwin said she wants to belong to a local chapter so she can participate in national events.
In order to participate in any local group activities, she would have to go to New York state, something she doesn’t want to do.
Baldwin joined the military during an era when women were rare in the armed forces. But, she said she had no problems with any of the male officers or other Marines because, by the 1960s and ‘70s, things had changed quite a bit.
“By the time I went through Parris Island, we were more or less accepted,” she said.
Baldwin was discharged in 1970 after serving her stint in aviation supply.
“If a mechanic came in for a part, I was there to supply it and had to order the parts needed, as well as help with keeping the inventory,” she said.
Her group was the last platoon that went through Parris Island before the basic training for women became the same as it is for men, Baldwin said.
“The ones right behind me had to go through the same basic training as the men,” she said. “It was still tough, which is the reason I went in, plus Vietnam was just starting and I wanted to help with the war effort.”
VanGorder, 67, told a different story of how women were treated in the military.
She also was a lance corporal when she was on active duty in the 1950s and was discharged in 1960, spending two years with the Air Wing at Cherry Point.
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http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/509341.html?nav=5014
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Marine Col. Jenny Holbert 30 year career Marine
Holbert managed 40 military correspondents and oversaw 70 civilian reporters during the battle to control Fallujah, Iraq. (Courtesy photo)
Life in the Marine Corps full of reward, pain
By Kate Wiltrout
The Virginian-Pilot
© April 3, 2008
NORFOLK
During 30 years in the Marine Corps and reserves, Col. Jenny Holbert witnessed a revolution in women’s military service – and confronted the personal costs and professional perils of war.
When Holbert enlisted in 1978, women at Parris Island, S.C., weren’t taught to shoot – but they were educated in luncheon etiquette and how to wear gloves and apply cosmetics. They weren’t supposed to wear camouflage.
Today, Holbert finishes her post as a public affairs officer with the Marine Corps Forces Command in Norfolk. After two months at Quantico, she’ll hang up her camouflage at the end of May.
During the first Gulf War, Holbert learned what it’s like to be the spouse left behind when a parent deploys. Her husband, a Marine tank officer, was sent to Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Then a reservist, Holbert was called up to active duty and worked 14 to 16 hours a day.
“Honestly, about the first 30 days that Lloyd had left, I was very angry with him for leaving me, because I was stuck,” she said. “It was just so difficult, trying to hold everything together and you’ve got the kids wondering what’s going on.”
“Sometimes I’d come home, and the kids had been watching TV and they wanted to know if Daddy died,” she recalled.
She remembers a surreal scene at a kids’ birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese near Twenty nine Palms, Calif. There wasn’t a single man present. The entire Marine division had been sent overseas.
Holbert and her husband eventually divorced. In 2004, her children now grown, she was sent to Iraq.
“It was my first deployment ever to a combat zone. When I was a young Marine, a female officer, women didn’t deploy. You might fly in – I was a finance officer at the time – to pay Marines, but then you’d leave again,” she said.
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