Posted on Dec 17, 2014
The elusive Marine Gunner. Do you have a favorite?
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In my (extremely biased) opinion, no military Rank or Occupational Specialty commands the same aura as the Marine Gunner. With that being said they seem to be a secretive bunch, and stories about them are almost impossible to find.
I want to hear your from anyone who has a favorite Gunner from history. My own two favorite are Gunner Henry L. Hulbert, the first to ever don the busting bomb of the Marine Gunner, a Medal of Honor recipient and WWI casualty who hailed from the same area in England as me, and Gunner Alexander P. Ruskewitch, a WWII and Vietnam veteran who began his Marine Corps career as I did, as a Parachute Rigger.
I want to hear your from anyone who has a favorite Gunner from history. My own two favorite are Gunner Henry L. Hulbert, the first to ever don the busting bomb of the Marine Gunner, a Medal of Honor recipient and WWI casualty who hailed from the same area in England as me, and Gunner Alexander P. Ruskewitch, a WWII and Vietnam veteran who began his Marine Corps career as I did, as a Parachute Rigger.
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I served in between two conflicts Korea and Vietnam. I was a skinny 142 LB's on my seventeenth birthday in 1956 when I swore the oath to be the best that I could be, three months later I left MCRD San Diego as a 172 Lb. ready to fight Marine. After training at Las Pulgas I was assigned to Company A 1st Battalion Fifth Marine Regiment 1st Marine Division at Camp San Mataeo Camp Pendleton, California.
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I joined the Corps in May of 1984. I have a recollection of a Marine Gunner I saw on Mainside Camp Lejeune later that year whom I was told was the last WWII Marine Gunner still on active duty. I was in awe !
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I have been retired since 1994 when did they change the comm MOS' I was a 2591 what happened and why?
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While in nam 66-67 our platoon Sgt Jacob KU a career Marine who would have made funny and higher. Stood up and protected his platoon, no problem on where he stood a Marines Marine
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I am parachute Regiment veteran ,my father was 6th Airborne and was killed in Normandy June 7th 1944,I was botn Jsnusry 6th 1944 ,hence the reason for my airborn service,,,I dropped with 75 Rangers in Libya in 63 (they were never there and niether were we,,,or the S A S OR THE S B S,,just wanted to pay respects to amazing warriors past and present,,,God Bless America ,,fraid England is in bad shape now but Rule Brittania,,,
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