Meet Lance Corporal John, who served us in Kuwait, served 1983-1989. He was with the Queen of battle artillery 2nd BN. 12th Marines.
Cannon Cocker Marine
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Triple deck Marines
The young the younger and the old. All Marines, a young PFC Sean an aviation support Marine swinging with the wing stationed on the rock in Japan at Okinawa. Me in the middle and Dad on the left served 1982-1986, also a winger with KC130’s aircraft out of Cherry Point. Robert was a Lance Corporal.
Marines! Ammo up!
Meet Jerry, Corporal of Marines. “there ain’t no fight without ammo.” Jerry served us in Somalia and served from 1990 to 1994 with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Force.
Sergeant 1st Class US Army
Sgt. 1st Class Ben here was an electrician served from 2001 to 2007, deployed to Afghanistan. Proud soldier absolutely.
US Army
Now Rusty here had a very difficult job, one nobody in the military wants. Graves registration. Accounting for the dead. Rusy was a Staff Sergeant, was involved in the US Army’s clean up of the Jones Town massacre.
Our love for Corpsman
Aspiring country band, Walker McGuire have penned a song dedicated to the “Docs” and Corpsman out there. These medics are unsung heroes and don’t always get the recognition that they deserve, and these two men decided that something needs to be done about that. So they wrote “They Call Me Doc”, a song dedicated to those who heroically save lives.
Jordan Walker and Johnny McGuire found inspiration for this song from an unnamed Navy Corpsman. In 2014, Walker McGuire and CreatiVets got together with said Corpsman and drew inspiration from his time in Iraq, threading his tales into lyrics, thus creating this tribute. CreatiVets wrote, “This Navy Corpsman saved the lives of Marines who were seriously injured in Iraq, and truly defines the word “hero”.”
The unnamed Corpsman was interviewed by CreatiVets and stated:
“One of the things that I wanted to be incorporated into the song was that I wanted it to be about the whole spectrum of care not just my experience. I wanted to tell the story of how Doc’s treat someone in the field as well as how they are treated during their recovery.”
Though Walker McGuire will never fully understand what this man went through, their song is a phenomenal tribute to those who do understand first hand. The Navy Corpsman stated, “All of my friends that are Corpsman thought the song was great and have shared it with others.”
Take a moment and listen to this emotional tune that’ll give y’all maybe just a little understanding of what these heroic medics go through. Tears are inevitable.
Army 1969-1970
Phil here was drafted 69-70, served “Over there” with 188th Black Widows worked on and kept them Huey’s flying. His Dad was in the 29th Division US Army WW2. His father survived crossing the beach of Normandy 6 June 1944.
Marines and Army defector!
John served us all from 1969 to 1989 as a Staff Sergeant in communications and is a memeber of the VFW post 6395. TY served us as a Corporal working on AAV tracked amphib vehicles mechanic from 2011 to 2015, then with the Army as a welder 2016 to today 2023!
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Stephan or I should say Tech Sergeant, served us all from 2012 to 2022. He served in the UAE on AWACS advanced aircraft surveillance in the skies all over the Middle East. He served overseas 2015, 16, 17 with Air Forces 380th Air Expeditionary Wing and 552nd Air Control Wing. Awesome job Stephan…ah I mean Staff Sergeant!
Marines air land and sea!
Sgt. Ben had a the huge responsibility of keeping our heavy lift CH-53 Helo’s flying. He served us from 207 to 2012. Served in Iraq 2009-10 and Afghanistan 20010-11. Served with HMX-366.