Even Above A Medal To all those called and known as best of the best. I just found the Sgt. Grit website about a month ago. I read a letter from Bill Cates Oath, Oath and More Oath. I went through boot camp at M.C.R.D. in San Diego, Calif. Today my legal name is Yusuf Superman Luqman. Although not a Texan, I was in platoon 322 The Wyatt Earp Platoon (the original platoon was to be comprised of all Texans), three of them could not make the grade so thats how my entry into this great platoon came about. My name then was Joe Louis Clark. Im from Las Vegas, Nevada. I enlisted into the U.S.M.C. at the age of 17 and proudly served from 1958-1962. If Im correct, the drill instructor was Gunny Kelly and the assistant D.I. was Sgt Shoemaker (sic) Im proud to have served as a Marine and also Im proud of being developed and fashioned by those two experts. During boot camp, on a particularly cold morning, we were out at the shooting range having been mustered by Gunny Kelly. He didnt have much to say, but what he did say was In this platoon we have a bunch of p-ssies and fa*tas*es, etc., etc, etc. He then finished saying the only real man in the platoon is Pvt. Clark. This made me feel great! I knew I was ready to soon be called a Marine. Oh what an honor coming from Gunny Kelly; He mustered us just for that! After boot camp and 2nd I.T.R . I was sent to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, Bravo Co., 1st Battalion, 4th Marines. I was stationed in Hawaii from 1958 until 1960. While there, I was assigned TAD, special services boxing team, under Gunny Jerry Plunkett. Although I was a Marine I was not entirely a model one. I received a... read the rest of this submission at: grunt/corps/newsletter/10010/#medal Submit your Marine Corps related stories and images at: grunt/corps/stories/post/
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:30:00 +0000
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