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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Gunny Guillan, his brother was a Medal of Honor in Korea. He was our H & S Co. Gunny in Vietnam in 1964 and 65. I would have followed him through hell !! I ask him once what he would do when he retired. He told me he was going to buy a dog and name it Duffey and kick it every day !! He stayed in Vietnam and was wounded at Kasan !!
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I was stationed in Camp Garcia in 1967 and was the town Sgt. In the M.P.s, the Provost Marshall was an actual "Gunner", unfortunately he was also a 1st grade jerk off, so I have absolutely nothing good to say about him
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I served in the Philippines with a Gunner that served 7 tours in Vietnam. He was a outstanding Marine and leader.
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Gunner Ivan Puett - Bursting Bomb Artillery Gunner - still providing technical support to this day
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Cpl David Whitman
Met Gunner Bolton once, but Gunner Puett always had words of praise for him as well, they were the last two (2) West Coast Gunners in the 1980's
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I was a hard charging lcpl team leader at CLNC in pre-deployment training in 1983 when, out of the gunpowder mist, in the quiet of the pine woods between the chaotic crashes of mock gunfights, came a spectral cammoflage figure. As he came closer I saw a grizzled veteran surveying the field of battle armed with a walking stick. I am reminded of that, my first sighting of the elusive gunner of Marines.
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