This is as close to Palermo, Sicily that I got while we were visiting the port of Salerno, Sicily. I had words with one of the sargeants...

Here is a picture of an Ocelot that was in the Panama Zoo. It wa hit by a Army vehicle and taken to the Panama Zoo. Unfortunately, it...

Making a landing on the beach at Marmaris, Turkey. We're hitting the beach on a location that was home to the Roman Army at their leisure...

While on Carribean Cruise, we were directed to go to the Panama Canal area due to an uprising on an old military base. We ended up...

Looking down from an APA troop ship at a Papa Boat. In a typical landing, a Marine would climb over the side of the ship and climb down a...

This is the Vatican in Rome, Italy. We ended up in Rome. Italy for three days and nights while on one cruise in the Med. Enjoy, Return...

A medal that I was extremely proud to get was this Rifle Expert Badge. My first time with firing a rifle was at Parris Island Boot Camp...

On The Beach At the moment, I'm guesing that this is 1611 as the LCM boat #. Return to: greendougherty's Links for So You Served Marty...

The story behind the damage is under the picture but you better believe that it might have been difficult to drive a jeep and cross water...

A typical beach scene after the 'red patchers' take over the beach for the rest of the landing operation of the exercise. Return to:...

FMF (Fleet Marine Force) Insignia - SYS014 Return to: greendougherty's Links for So You Served Marty Dougherty Return to:...

Barracks Style at Camp Lejeuene, NC. - SYS006 This is typical of the barracks style back on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. While at 1st...

This was from a newspaper clipping from the Camp Lejeune paper that covered President John F. Kennedy's vsit to the 2nd Marine Division...

Icovangelo and Marty Sharing a few funny moments as an FMF Marine. Enjoy, Return to: greendougherty's Links for So You Served Marty...

Here is the cruise book for the Med Cruise back in 1963 with the 2nd Bn. - 8th Marines. Sharing a few memories of an FMF Marine in the...

Beached MIke Boat in Storm SYS024 On one of our beach landings, the surf was pretty heavy and the boat had to be latched to the beach...

APA 228 USS Rockbridge SYS025 Sorry for the reversal of this picture but I don't have that photo H/W to do a flip. This is the APA 228...

Miltary Inspection SYS027 For those of you that never served in the US Marines, part of life is preparing for an inspection, or,...

Box Handlers Equipment SYS028 One of the pieces of equipment that was used by the boxhandlers section of Shore Party on beach landings....

Sgt. Alexander SYS029 This is Sgt. Alexander and the reason that I have a picture of Sgt. Alexander is that he was the one that gave me...