Posted on 02/13/2010 7:00:34 PM PST by pansgold
Is anyone interested in some photos taken by the Marine CORPS? <(new pronunciation is like the word for a dead body according to our leader)
http://www.rhyner.com/photos/china.html
Who took the pictures, and where did they come from, after all this time?
I wonder if the training was any easier back then.
They are sets created from official photos taken by Marine combat photographers. The set(s) were offered for sale to the troops before they shipped out and headed for home. My dad bought sets but only for the places he served like China, Guam, Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
The Library if Congress should have some of the sets. These photos were in a box in my mom’s basement. After dad died in 1994 my sisters discovered them and scanned them for me and I posted them for some of the old vets.
I can relay a story my dad told me about boot camp.
They crawled through mud a foot deep with barbed wire 2 feet above their heads. Pig guts were tossed all around and hanging from the wire to simulate the intestines of less fortunate Marines blown up by mortor fire.
He said they fired live 30-06 machine guns 30 inches above their heads and swept the gun back and forth and if you stood up you could be shot.
Now days, I guess all you have to do is call a “Time Out” and it all stops.
For later.
They would still crawl through it but the live rounds might be a specialized course.
Thanks for posting these pansgold. They are fantastic! Made me wonder if my uncle [whom I never met, and was killed] was in any of the pictures from Guam.
The only reason for such a damning remark that is that you can't possibly imagine that anyone else could possibly be as big a bad ass has your dad.
ahhh I’m a Vietnam Era veteran. Time out. Do a bit of research on the name(s) “Oscar P. Austin” and the guy he died trying to save was “Gary Raymond Miracle”.
You see, “Time Out” doesn’t work in war. Only in boot camp.
www.rhyner.com/tif/sarajevo.jpg
www.rhyner.com/tif/tiff2.jpg
www.rhyner.com/tif/tiff3.jpg
My niece Tiffany Turner left Sarajevo and wound up in Iraq driving what she called “A big fat slow target”. She drove a fuel tanker. Tif is a “First Responder” and is credited with saving at least one life under fire when the Hummer in the lead of her convoy was hit by an IED. Tiffany was under orders not to stop the tanker for ANY REASON which would make it a sitting target. She was driving and switched placed while moving with her rider as she grabbed the first aid kit and jumped from the moving truck. She pulled people from the Hummer and rendered aid until a medical help arrived.
Time out didn’t work for her as she continued to be fired upon.
Her husband is a Marine in the mountains of Afghanistan and he hunts bad guys. My son-in law is on a Navy ship somewhere close enough to provide air support for them.
We did our part. We did what we were told to do, went where we were told to go when told to do it.
Great photos here
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