I am about 30 pages shy of finishing With the Old Breed. You weren't kidding; that is a great book!

If true, I wonder how many senators’ kids ended up on that working party. <----- I normally don't use those but I thought it was appropr...

You were right; I was interested. I never thought about created patches for fictional units but its pretty smart. If soldiers weren't walking around E...

I suppose the best indication of whether a commander is effective or not is what the enemy thinks of him after a few encounters. My understanding is t...

Moose, I first was introduced to the world of WWII in the winter 1998 issue of Military in Scale (a modeling magazine) when they did a piece on t...

Unfortunately, that link does not work anymore (or at least for me.) Here is a good one from the National Archives. It has a lot of great pictures tha...

Welcome aboard Judy! It's amazing how even 60+ years later the bonds formed by fighting men overseas are still bringing people together. Perhaps the i...

My grandfather brought back a Luger as well. It still shoots great although neither my father nor I shoot it very often beacuse of its value. It is in...

Let me tell you all - the Marine Corps museum is AWESOME! I went (finally) back in September when I had some business in Quantico. If you can make it ...

This is a picture of my platoon in Iraq. It was a "provisional" infantry platoon (i.e. an straight-leg infantry unit consisting of non-straight-leg in...

Here is a link to a book on the subject. I don't know anything about the book other than what I saw on the Amazon site. I had never heard of COPPs. Th...

Here is a book I found on amazon about the black experience. One of the commentors mentions the story I talked about.

Hey! I made corporal!! Good thing too, I haven't been a PFC since November of 1995!

Without jumping on Google, I believe that was John Paul Jones; torpedoes being the common day term for naval mines at the time. The 90th infantry divi...

Being from Texas I don't have much of a problem with Spanish. It would have been different if you were in the 90th I guess. Why Gen Smith wr...