Supporting Your Troops
Hello from Captain Matory, Golf 2/3
June/09/2008 20:59 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
This is why I do what I do! God is certainly
"Supporting Our Heroes" how on earth could I do any
less. This came from Dianne, in Tampa
FL.
Date: June 9, 2008 4:52:28 PM CDT
Subject: Hello from Capt Matory, Golf 2/3
Dearest Dianne,
I know this message is pretty late considering the wonderful support you and your people have shown Golf 2/3 but we just recently took over an area that had email. While I always try to impress upon Your Marines that email is a "lazy" form of communication and that writing a letter and mailing it is always preferred when connecting with family and friends back home, I have found that I myself have just got to use email to ensure that folks back home know what is going on.
Also, I am not sure if you are aware, but due to our lack of email and internet, I failed to keep up with the Any Marine program so you are actually our sole supporter at this time. Read More...
Date: June 9, 2008 4:52:28 PM CDT
Subject: Hello from Capt Matory, Golf 2/3
Dearest Dianne,
I know this message is pretty late considering the wonderful support you and your people have shown Golf 2/3 but we just recently took over an area that had email. While I always try to impress upon Your Marines that email is a "lazy" form of communication and that writing a letter and mailing it is always preferred when connecting with family and friends back home, I have found that I myself have just got to use email to ensure that folks back home know what is going on.
Also, I am not sure if you are aware, but due to our lack of email and internet, I failed to keep up with the Any Marine program so you are actually our sole supporter at this time. Read More...
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Major Bourland Is On A Roll ... 2/24 checking in
June/07/2008 14:19 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Date: June
6, 2008 7:48:50 PM CDT
Subject: Major Bourland Is On A Roll.. 2/24 checking in
We have been conducting several operations in the area. Badguys, unm you should find a new profession because your days are numbered, no really you should head for the mountains. Maybe Afghanistan?? They have mountains there. I'll put in a good word for you with a couple hundred of my close Marine buddies there.
Last week there we were on a patrol, following some warm foot prints on the trail, sweat salt in the eyes, body armor pulling at your muscles in your back, thin layer of dirt covering all of your exposed skin and we got a nice calling card from Mr Scumbag. A nice IED that scratched our truck. OK maybe a bit more than scratched but every one was good to go but pissed. Read More...
Subject: Major Bourland Is On A Roll.. 2/24 checking in
We have been conducting several operations in the area. Badguys, unm you should find a new profession because your days are numbered, no really you should head for the mountains. Maybe Afghanistan?? They have mountains there. I'll put in a good word for you with a couple hundred of my close Marine buddies there.
Last week there we were on a patrol, following some warm foot prints on the trail, sweat salt in the eyes, body armor pulling at your muscles in your back, thin layer of dirt covering all of your exposed skin and we got a nice calling card from Mr Scumbag. A nice IED that scratched our truck. OK maybe a bit more than scratched but every one was good to go but pissed. Read More...
3/4 1st Sgt Wells Checking In - June 3rd
June/04/2008 14:45 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Via Any
Marine Website:
03 June - Friends and family members of Weapons Company,
It's been a long week but I find myself once again writing my weekly post. Our Marines have done so much this week that it's hard to decide what to tell you about. I spent the week with one of my platoons that I don't normally see a lot because they are quite a distance from me. These warriors are counted among the most proficient and dedicated in the battalion. When I arrived at their position, I began talking to them about re enlistments. Right now, the moral in our company is very high and we have a lot of young men who want to "stay Marine".
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03 June - Friends and family members of Weapons Company,
It's been a long week but I find myself once again writing my weekly post. Our Marines have done so much this week that it's hard to decide what to tell you about. I spent the week with one of my platoons that I don't normally see a lot because they are quite a distance from me. These warriors are counted among the most proficient and dedicated in the battalion. When I arrived at their position, I began talking to them about re enlistments. Right now, the moral in our company is very high and we have a lot of young men who want to "stay Marine".
Read More...
Headquarters Platoon 3/4 Checking In
June/03/2008 22:08 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Dear Dianne,
First of all, let me start off by telling you how grateful we are for your support. My name is Corporal Soto, and this is my second deployment to Iraq. I served with First Sergeant Bass last deployment with CAAT 2 (Last deployment, we were known as Mobile Assault Platoon 2). For this deployment, I am with the Headquarters Platoon in Weapons Company serving under First Sergeant Wells.
This year Weapons Company is spread thin throughout the Al Anbar Province. All five platoons within the company (Headquarters Platoon, CAAT 1 Platoon, CAAT 2 Platoon, 81’s Platoon and Sniper Platoon) are all thankful for your support. We greatly appreciate the time and effort you have put toward the support of the war. You may or may not know this, but when you send a package for a Marine, it really brightens their day. Read More...
Dear Dianne,
First of all, let me start off by telling you how grateful we are for your support. My name is Corporal Soto, and this is my second deployment to Iraq. I served with First Sergeant Bass last deployment with CAAT 2 (Last deployment, we were known as Mobile Assault Platoon 2). For this deployment, I am with the Headquarters Platoon in Weapons Company serving under First Sergeant Wells.
This year Weapons Company is spread thin throughout the Al Anbar Province. All five platoons within the company (Headquarters Platoon, CAAT 1 Platoon, CAAT 2 Platoon, 81’s Platoon and Sniper Platoon) are all thankful for your support. We greatly appreciate the time and effort you have put toward the support of the war. You may or may not know this, but when you send a package for a Marine, it really brightens their day. Read More...
Updates from 1st Sgt Wells & The 3/4
May/30/2008 19:52 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Date:
May
30, 2008 2:34:26 PM CDT
Subject: Updates from 1st Sgt Wells & The 3/4
Greetings to all the friends and family of Weapons Company 3/4. I would like to take a moment to update you on what your Marines have been doing in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This year, the way in Iraq has proven to be a very different challenge than what we have historically seen. Now, the fight here has shifted from a high intensity fight to a low intensity campaign. now are Marines are fully engaged in assisting the locals in establishing safe neighborhoods and restoring infrastructure and building a strong government. By helping our Iraqi neighbors to build strong stable communities, the Marines of Weapons Company are ensuring that the insurgency will not regain a foothold once we leave.
One of the missions that Weapons Company routinely carries out is finding and destroying IED's and Read More...
Subject: Updates from 1st Sgt Wells & The 3/4
Greetings to all the friends and family of Weapons Company 3/4. I would like to take a moment to update you on what your Marines have been doing in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This year, the way in Iraq has proven to be a very different challenge than what we have historically seen. Now, the fight here has shifted from a high intensity fight to a low intensity campaign. now are Marines are fully engaged in assisting the locals in establishing safe neighborhoods and restoring infrastructure and building a strong government. By helping our Iraqi neighbors to build strong stable communities, the Marines of Weapons Company are ensuring that the insurgency will not regain a foothold once we leave.
One of the missions that Weapons Company routinely carries out is finding and destroying IED's and Read More...
I Am A Marine Mom
May/29/2008 21:19 Filed in: Letters
from the Home Front
Dear Sgt.
Grit,
I wrote this last week, thinking of mother's
day and having one of my children in a strange and
faraway land. I had a delivery person come in and
ask me who was in the picture on my counter, when I
said my son, he asked where he was, when I said
Iraq, he said (I kid you not), "That's no place to
be, that's not good. We shouldn't even be
there."
I then said to him, "Well, HE thinks it is and THAT'S what counts." Read More...
I then said to him, "Well, HE thinks it is and THAT'S what counts." Read More...
Combat Out Post Hades
May/27/2008 21:23 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Dianne
is a Personal Trainer in Tampa, FL who connected me
with the Unit of Marines in Iraq that I 'adopted'
and am sending the Support Boxes to....
Jodi
For those of you who know what I do for a living, you will understand why I find this so funny :) I am also attaching a fantastic picture :) Thanks for your support and for helping me to bring a ray of sunshine to a pretty bleak place! We are doing great things and I couldn't do it without your help !!
update from Maj. Bourland .. well, sorta
We have cracked the code to all of your unwanted weight gains. Combat Out Post Hades! Aka Club Hades. Read More...
For those of you who know what I do for a living, you will understand why I find this so funny :) I am also attaching a fantastic picture :) Thanks for your support and for helping me to bring a ray of sunshine to a pretty bleak place! We are doing great things and I couldn't do it without your help !!
update from Maj. Bourland .. well, sorta
We have cracked the code to all of your unwanted weight gains. Combat Out Post Hades! Aka Club Hades. Read More...
3/4 1st Sgt Wells Checking in
May/21/2008 21:27 Filed in: Iraq
Updates
Friends
and family of Weapons Company, this has been a
great week! Today we received our first round of
packages from some of you. The Marines poured
through the contents immediately and, I am happy to
say that there was not a single item untouched. The
boys loved the pictures and notes that some of you
included in your boxes. It was like a big adventure
for some of them to get to open a box. Some of
these Marines haven't received a box from anyone
yet and we have been here nearly 3 months. Thank
you all so much for your support of these patriots.
It is truly an honor to serve with each and every
one of them. Read
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