dress blues

s/f

Inauguration

January 20, 2009

shades of grey

Simpler achroma, losing shades of grey.

later that day, Lts

where are you now?

first to fight

Today is the 232nd birthday of the United States Marine Corps.


Proud to serve...

edith

April 1918

hurricane

Sailors commonly refer to the CH-53E as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downward thrust the helicopter generates.--Wikipedia

hurricane

The CH-53E can transport up to 55 troops or 14,515 kg of cargo and has an external load lift system that allows the helicopter to carry underslung loads up to 16,330 kg. The Super Stallion has a cruise speed of 278 km/h and a maximum unrefuelled range of 2,000 km.--wikipedia

grazie

IL FOTORACCONTO Le memorie di Bill la storia è in un clic

The wonders of the Internet, La Repubblica, Italy's leading daily newspaper, has this website on their home page today. Because of the lovely Sophia?

smoke or fog?

Classic Woolen Mills moment before City Council last night, beyond description. The goal-posts for Franklin one-way moved

quercus emoryi

Evergreen oak in Charlottesville. Tree is a xerophile, can survive in deep soils, shallow soils, bottom land and mountaintops. Has the lowest percentage of tannin for an American oak, yum, acorn flour!

CH-53E?

LT Emory graduates from TBS tomorrow. Drove to Camp Barrett for recon, talked to some of the Fox Company Marines.

shower shoes

231

boots on the ground

Five years ago Emma and Helen were hiking a hundred miles north of Hartsfield airport in Atlanta. From the sanctuary of the eastern Appalachians the attack was invisible event. In retrospect they commented on the disappearance of air traffic. Days later they got details.
Five years on, USMC issue footwear.

Lt Emory

Colonel Robert H. Chase

OCS Commanding officer

Colonel Chase enlisted in the Marine Corps in February 1973 and served for eight years as an enlisted Marine. Staff Sergeant Chase was selected for the Enlisted Commissioning program in 1980, graduating as an honor graduate from both Officer Candidates School and The Basic School in 1981.


(21 years later) Assigned to II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, Lieutenant Colonel Chase was ordered to US Central Command for duty in Qatar as the Senior Liaison Officer for the Combined Joint Task Force ? Horn of Africa serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom I. Selected for Colonel, he was transferred to the 2d Marine Division as the Operations Officer, Deputy G-3, and as the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3 (Operations). He deployed to Ramadi, Iraq, planning and directing combat operations in Al Anbar province during OIF 04-06. He assumed command of Officer Candidate School, 23 September 2005 .

Graduation Parade

Alpha Company PLC-Combined, Charlie Company OCC-192

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Emory E hung with the OCC-192 Charlie Company 1st Platoon for five weeks. She decided the military was not for her. Maybe the hardest decision ever, leaving her friends.

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Commissioning Ceremony, USMC Officer Candidate School, Quantico, Virginia

The Officer's Oath of Office has its roots in the First Congress of the United States. The oath was revised numerous times until the Forty-Eighth Congress passed the current oath into law by the Act of May 13, 1884. The oath, which may be administered by any officer, reads as follows:

"I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God."

sound off

Three of Emory H's primary reality instructors the past ten weeks.

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Quantico week 3, recovered from fx of a year ago, making another run

Gunny

Emma and Helen are at Quantico. A world away. No TV, no movies, no resting. On deck.

BB-63

U.S.S. Missouri Tokyo Bay

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There are soldiers in the way of harm, a girl holds a baby in a blanket in her arms
A man with a flag leaves for work, a woman pulls a thread from the hem of her skirt
Another Saturday comes and goes, another south wind comes and blows
Another baseball field another pop fly, another bunch of boys another blue sky?Sam Baker

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All is well.