Your a VETRAN, whether you got shot at or not makes no difference at all.
You were willing to enlist and accept the risk that you may have to (to quote Abraham Lincoln) give if necessary “THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION” to the country that you love and cherish, nothing else matters.
SEMPER FIDELIS
5th MEB
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And a happy USMC birthday from a Swabbie to a Jarhead!