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  • Face of Defense: Glew Keeps Company Together

    05/17/2010 6:03:14 PM PDT · by SandRat · 3 replies · 209+ views
    Face of Defense ^ | Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde, USMC
    MARJA, Afghanistan, May 17, 2010 – Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Jason Glew is a workhorse. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Jason Glew, left, poses with Marine Corps 1st Sgt. Edwin Mota in front of the India Company "Mustang" sign in Marja, Afghanistan, April 23, 2010. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Tommy Bellegarde  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. He serves as the company gunnery sergeant for India Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, and thrives at juggling multiple tasks at once as India Company fights the Taliban insurgency here. As the company's logistician Glew is responsible for delivering all...
  • Veterans restore Vietnam era workhorse (Memory Lane with the UH-34D "Ugly Angel")

    03/08/2006 6:34:10 PM PST · by SandRat · 11 replies · 1,944+ views
    Marine Corps News ^ | Lance Cpl. Randall A. Clinton
    MARINE CORPS AIR STATION NEW RIVER, N.C. (March 8, 2006) -- During the early 1960’s, when Marines needed transportation to or from combat zones, they didn’t call in MV-22’s. For the Marines on the frontlines in Vietnam, their savior was the UH-34D, ancestor of the CH-46E and the MV-22. At the stand-up ceremony for Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron-263, the first operational MV-22 Osprey squadron, Marines from the Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron-361 Veterans Association displayed a piece of the squadron’s past, a static display of a fully restored, operational UH-34D. The UH-34D was flown by HMM-361 along with other Marine squadrons...