So You Served - Are You Of The Legal Age SYS033 - October 28, 2018
Are You Of The Legal Age? SYS033 This is Corrigan and if memory serves me right, James Corrigan. This is one of those special moments...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 27, 20181 min read
So You Served - Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba SYS035 - October 27, 2018
Guantanamo Naval Base Sorry for the quality of the picture but this was taken on one of our visits to Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. I'm...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 26, 20181 min read
So You Served - LCM's Transport Tanks SYS038 - October 26, 2018
LCM's Transport Tanks SYS038 Delivering a Sherman Tank to the beach head via an LCM. Typically, two of the LCM's woudd fit into the well...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 24, 20181 min read
So You Served - USS Thuban AKA19 SYS039 - October 24, 2018
USS Thuban AKA19 SYS039 This pictures was taken from the cruise book from our Med Cruise in 1963 with the 2nd Battalion - 8th Marines....
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 23, 20181 min read
So You Served - Tank Crew SYS040 - October 23, 2018
Tank Crew SYS040 What are they doing to that tank? It's at a tank wash, or, on the beach washing off all the debris and soil that was...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 20, 20181 min read
So You Served - Coleseum in Rome, Italy SYS041 - October 20, 2018
All you had to do to see the world was to sign your life away on the dotted line, and you got all these perks. Coleseum in Rome, Italy...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 17, 20183 min read
So You Served - Is It A Flag in Turkey? SYS042 - October 17, 2018
A Flag in Turkey SYS042 Did we just step back in time in this country with all this flag stuff? A flash back to 1963, I hope that was the...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 13, 20182 min read
So You Served - Izmir, Turkey SYS043 - October 13, 2018
Izmir, Turkey SYS043 This is a picture from the cruise book from ourt Med Cruise back in 1963. I took a few picture with my iTablet and...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 11, 20181 min read
So You Served - Colon, Panama, Central America SYS044 - October 11, 2018
Sea Urchin in Colon, Panama SYS044 Bob holding a Sea Urchin from the bay in the background. Here is my friend from New York called Bob...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 9, 20181 min read
So You Served - Well of an LSD Ship SYS036 - October 9, 2018
Well of an LSD (Landing Ship Dock) - SYS036 Inside the well of an LSD (Landing Ship Dock). This is what the well looks like when it is...
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Marty Dougherty
Oct 1, 20183 min read
So You Served - Tent City at Camp Garcia, Viequez, P.R. SYS049 - October 1, 2018
Tent City at Camp Viequez, Puerto Rico SYS049 If you went on a Carribbean Sea Cruise, it was guaranteed that you would spend some time at...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 27, 20181 min read
So You Served - Camp Garcai, Viequz, P.R. - 1963
At a landing on Camp Garcia, Puerto Rico, here is an LST that comes all the way to the shoreline because of its flat bottom. On the side...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 26, 20181 min read
So You Served - Med Cruise - Septmber 26, 2018
This picture is from a Mediterranean Sea Cruise on a deck where we had our Communication Room on the LSD-14 (U.S.S. Rushmore). At this...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 25, 20182 min read
So You Served - Mike Boat - September 25, 2018
This is a picture from Marmaris, Turkey and the seas got a bit nasty and the Mike Boat got stranded on the beach overnight. This is the...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 22, 20182 min read
So You Served - Panama, Central America SYS048 - September 20, 2018
It's Only 5 Miles to the Camp Site SYS048 if we were not on a Med Cruise, the Carribbean Sea was always on our doorsteps in North...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 21, 20181 min read
So You Served - German Pillbox in Marmaris, Turkey SYS047 - September 21, 2018
Top of German Pillbox at Marmaris, Turkey SYS048 Marmaris, Turkey is one of the location where the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines played war...
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Marty Dougherty
Sep 17, 20181 min read
So You Served - Marines on Corsica SYS037 - Otober 10, 2018
Marines on Corsica - SYS037 For all those U.S. Marines that served in the F.M.F. (Fleet Marine Force) on a Navy ship in the Caribbean or...
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Marty Dougherty
Aug 26, 20183 min read
So You Served - A Night in Boot Camp SYS045 - August 26, 2018
A Night At Parris Island STS046 One of the perks you get in boot camp, after you have been there for a few days, is to stand guard duty....
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