The Mother of the Sixth Fleet Contributed by Bill Faith
Mother of the Sixth Fleet Kit Jarrell
Major P from has a touching story about someone you should know, to use phrase.
It was back in ’94, on my second float with 24th MEU (SOC). We had just come back from the expedition to burn the Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor… Ha ha, it wasn’t that Old Corps, in fact we had just come from Somalia after the covering the withdrawal there, and we were due for some liberty before resuming our exercise schedule in the Med.
Right before we pulled in, the MEU S-3 and the CO pulled me in and told me they had a job for me. The lady who ran the USO in Haifa not only provided a nice place for the sailors and Marines to go relax, she had also, solely on her own initiative, constructed a memorial park to the 243 men who were killed in Beirut in 1983. It was high atop Mount Carmel, and whenever ships pulled in it was SOP to have a small ceremony up there. Someone had to plan it, someone had to go with her while she planned her end of it, and that someone was 1stLt P.
I was not pleased, ...
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Contributed by Bill Faith on July 24, 2006 at 12:12 AM in , , |