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| Friday, 9-Sep-2005 00:00 |
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Congratulations Grunt! 08/01/2005
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Corporal of Marines!
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| Wednesday, 17-Aug-2005 00:00 |
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Here ya' go Grunt!
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Here's what my truck looked like after the lightning strike. IED? What IED? We don't need no stinkin' IEDs! 
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| Wednesday, 10-Aug-2005 00:00 |
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Commandant and Sergeant Major of the US Marine Corps visit!
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Just some random pics from the visit of General Hagee and Sergeant Major Estrada. 2/2 got to listen to their Senior Officer and Senior Enlisted the first week in-country. The Commandant and Sergeant Major also were there for the handover of the AO from 3/8 to 2/2.
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| Tuesday, 28-Jun-2005 00:00 |
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Commander's Update!
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2d Battalion 2d Marines
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22 June 2005. Marines and families. Our upcoming deployment is nearing quickly and I wanted to take the opportunity to provide you the latest information on what your Marines and the Warlords have been doing. Near the end of May we completed a 30-day deployment to California where we conducted Support and Stability Operations (SASO) training as well as live-fire training at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Training Center in 29 Palms, California. The training conducted in the California desert included intensive individual shooting skills and platoon and company sized live-fire attacks with supporting arms. In essence, we fine-tuned the individual skills and culminated in unit sized attacks. This excellent training was all in preparation for our deployment to Iraq and I am very confidant in the abilities of the individual Marine and the Battalion as a whole.
We are finalizing our logistical and administrative preparations for deployment, to include our leave periods, which are currently underway. These final weeks are a good time to talk to your Marine to ensure that all family, administrative and financial matters are considered with plans in place. Our mailing address for deployment will be activated on 1 July so you can begin mailing items at that time. Current estimates show mail is taking approximately two weeks for letter mail and three weeks for packages though variations can occur due to transportation asset availability. Plan to begin mail about two weeks prior to your Marine's deployment and it should arrive shortly after he does. Mail that does arrive before him will be held for him.
Another way to communicate with your Marine in Iraq is through Motomail. Information can be found using the link on this website. This program is designed such that you send an email letter via Motomail to your Marine. Once it is received at the station in Iraq, it is printed out and delivered to your Marine as a letter in a much faster time than normal letter mail. The first time you utilize this system, you will need to provide an email address and designate a password. You will then be able to compose a letter. You will select an address to include into your address book by clicking "add address". You will need to select a "Marine Corps Unit". Page through the list provided to locate the address for 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines. Be sure to look carefully since it also will list his company (E, F, G, Wpns, Hq Svc Co) This address may not be within the system until our arrival in Iraq. Once the address is selected, enter the information requested on the following screen. Once the address is in your address book, you can then select that address, compose a letter and send it on its way. Using this website, you can track the letter's progress as well.
I am confident in the training of your Marine and the Battalion and expect that the Warlords will be very successful while playing their part in Iraq.
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| Wednesday, 6-Apr-2005 00:00 |
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Marine Motivational Posters '05
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OORAH ! 
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| Tuesday, 15-Feb-2005 00:00 |
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The Rock
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I'm told that there is a huge rock near a gravel pit on Hwy.25 in rural Iowa. For generations, kids have painted slogans, names, and obscenities on this rock, changing it's character many times. A few months back, the rock received it's latest paint job, and since then it has been left completely undisturbed. It's quite an impressive sight. Be sure to scroll down and check out the multiple photos (all angles) of the rock. I thought the flag was draped over the rock, but it's not. It's actually painted on the rock too. - Anonymous (if anyone knows who took these pics pass it on and I'll give credit where credit is due!)
The Rock was painted by Ray Sorensen II
UPDATE! - Pictures of the painter Ray "Buddy" Sorensen have been added. 2/28/05
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| Friday, 11-Feb-2005 00:00 |
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USS Ronald Reagan comes into Pearl Harbor!
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Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (January 22, 2005) - Sailors man the rails and render honors to the USS Arizona Memorial as the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) pulls into Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class James Thierry.
Courtesy of John at Argghhh!
Now, for you Ground Pounders that appreciate close air support be ready to strap it on! Take a ride with a carrier based FA18 Jock and enjoy the ride. Hope y'all have great sound cards and CRANK IT UP! Take a MAGIC CARPET RIDE!
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| Thursday, 10-Feb-2005 00:00 |
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Thought I'd throw up some refueler pics!
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These KC 135 pics are from my "kid" bro Uncle Dave Da Flyboy!
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| Thursday, 16-Dec-2004 00:00 |
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Rough Men
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"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell
Rough men
There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with dragon breath fire in their hair.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge at their nation's call.
The faint-hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put placaters behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the peaceniks what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are dumb delusional fools.
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
GySgt Hartmann (Lee Ermey) speaks!
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| Monday, 18-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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2/2 Warlords OIF2
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Marines Live Forever!
Give Your Heart To Jesus
This Is My Rifle!
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! --Patrick Henry
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. --John Stuart Mill
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. --George Orwell
In matters of principle, stand like a rock! --Thomas Jefferson
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.--Thucydides
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. --Edmund Burke
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