HELP Support The Fighting 6th Marines In Iraq
Gateway pundit:
The Fighting 6th wants to hear from America.
Lance Cpl. Blake A Soileau, 19, from Zachary, La., holds his Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, with combat distinguishing device that he was awarded in a ceremony here, May 21. He received the award for exposing himself to enemy machine gun fire while stopping a explosive-laden dump truck from entering the platoon?s forward operating base. His accurate fire brought the truck to a halt saving the lives of his fellow Marines. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Christopher Zahn)
TAKE ONE MINUTE AND HELP THE MARINES IN IRAQ:
Blackfive's Grim interviewed Marine Colonel Simcock, Commander of RCT-6 in Iraq. This is what Col. Grim asked that will only take a minute of your time:
COL. SIMCOCK: (Chuckles.) I'll tell you what, the one thing that all Marines want to know about -- and that includes me and everyone within Regimental Combat Team 6 -- we want to know that the American public are behind us. We believe that the actions that we're taking over here are very, very important to America. We're fighting a group of people that, if they could, would take away the freedoms that America enjoys.If anyone -- you know, just sit down, jot us -- throw us an e- mail, write us a letter, let us know that the American public are behind us. Because we watch the news just like everyone else. It's broadcast over here in our chow halls and the weight rooms, and we watch that stuff, and we're a little bit concerned sometimes that America really doesn't know what's going on over here, and we get sometimes concerns that the American public isn't behind us and doesn't see the importance of what's going on. So that's something I think that all Marines, soldiers and sailors would like to hear from back home, that in fact, yes, they think what we're doing over here is important and they are in fact behind us .
The Marines have set up a special email address to send a supportive message to the Marines is: RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil.
The emails are being scanned by the PAO before being printed and distributed to individual Marines.
And, guess what?, the RCT-6 has a blog at Fighting 6th Marines
BLACKFIVE ADDS: AFTER A FEW DAYS, WE HAVE ONLY GOTTEN THE MARINES ABOUT 2,000 EMAILS. WE COULD USE SOME HELP IN GETTING THE WORD OUT.
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3 comments:
Thank you serendip, I went to the blog :) I will try not be radical there.
A blog!? We didn't have no stinking blogs in my day! *grumble*
6th Marine Regiment (wikipedia)
6th Marines (Global Security)
I was in the second Marine Division for only a short time, and it was a different Regiment. I spent about 5 years in the 1st marine Division, though, and I still know a few guys on active duty down there at camp Pendleton. I'm sure they would love all the support they can get. It must be a different world than the one I remember. The only news we used to be able to watch was Armed Forces Network, and that was only available on shipboard or at some of the largest bases. I guess all in all it's better for them to be in closer touch with what's going on outside of their own little piece of the world. Culture shock on returning home after a long deployment used to be real nightmare for a lot of guys.
Roxie,
I will try not be radical there.
How come? Marines are pretty radical, to the best of my recollection :)
They probably have rules about what they can talk about on the blog, though. I wonder who gets to access it? I'm going to bookmark it and check it out.
6th Marine Regiment
* Headquarters Company 6th Marines (HQ/6)
* 1st Battalion 6th Marines (1/6)
* 2nd Battalion 6th Marines (2/6)
* 3rd Battalion 6th Marines (3/6)
* 1st Battalion 9th Marines (1/9)
Wow! The Walking Dead are in the 6th Marines now! I take it back! I was in 1/9 for 3 years, when it was attached to the 1st Marine Regiment back in the 1980s. I just became very interested in the 6th Marines, after all.
The Dead
I wasn't aware they'd been reactivated. There are a lot of legends surrounding that Battalion, and some of them are true.
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