Good video Pablo. Would you be able to re-cut the video with photos of all of these former marines in their uniforms?

Hi Bob, thanks. I tried to find a photo of each Marine in uniform as I knew there'd be some question on some of them as to whether or not they had served...but most of them I was unable to find photos...if anyone has any please let me know.

Pablo Flores Tom Seaver Hall of Fame pitcher!

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Makes quite an impression, especially when you're young.

Thank you. You are raising your son well.

As a Jarhead who was on the receiving end of a similar situation at a Taco Bell in Memphis once, it's an interaction I'll never forget.

Thanks Paul, along with the Navy's frogmen the Raiders were the first special forces if I'm not mistaken. I believe the Marine Corps just recently returned to using the name of the Raiders for their special forces...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Raider_Regiment

How can all you MEN be thanked for all you did, for all you gave??? It is good to see how many of you are still alive, some in person, but ALL in our graritude for how much you all gave, when it really counted! It is good to see how much better our current military is protected, so much more than a pot and a rifle!

+S.T. L. Did not know that...thanks for the heads up.

What a name to have! It sounds like Artemus Gordon and Gomer Pyle were combined. Well one of them was a Marine.

And the guitar player in the band called Dr. Hook and the medicine show was a former Marine but I cannot remember what his name was Emma go look it up and I’ll tell you what it is Dr. Hook and the medicine showHis name is George Cummings and he was a US Marine

Thanks and Semper Fi!

+Rowwdy Colt Thank You!....and Semper Fi!

Thanks John and I agree...I sometimes wish I had done 20 years...but sometimes life takes you in a different direction.

John Carpenter - same here. Oorah!! '76-'80

I wound up getting a Navy commission and retired. Went to OCS then to BUD/S. But the Corps laid the foundation. There were a number of former Marines in the Teams.

Yeah I've read as much as I can find about the Seals...I did find it interesting but not surprising that there were some Marines trying out. On that topic I think the most amazing and humbling book I ever read about a Navy Seal was the book about Adam Brown called "Fearless"...brought tears to my eyes to see someone so selfless and going from the bowels of the lowest you can be in life to the tipping point of Seal Team 6...Amazing and humbling.

I need to read that. I was never a Team 6 guy, mainly west coast SDVs and Team 3.

He was John Glenn’s Wing Man during the Korean War.

Thanks and good catch...don't know how I missed that one...I'll have to add it in...on Chesty's son, that really was a tragedy.

Yes he was but he was a Marine first...he then went through an officer candidates program for the Navy and when he qualified he was discharged from the Corps as Corporal and enlisted in the Navy.

lateral move over to the navy from the marines

Marines are a division of navy

Thank you and your family too for their service!

They are and were awesome I love them very much, and all who have served and sacrificed. I do get upset at those who disrespect all that have served and given so much tho.

I agree we all need to respect and thank all those who served and who are serving including our first responders and law enforcement.

Gary Daniel. I think you just did.

Correct...I have some info on Bea Arthur below in a comment from someone else...and I believe Bob Bell was mentioned before as well.

Erich Barnes, Pro Football Hall of Fame. He and I were in the same platoon at Parris Island.

Speaking of "Bell"...Glenn Bell, the founder of Taco Bell is also one of the Leatherneck fraternity.

Thanks Rick! Semper Fi!

Thank you I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for the heads up! I'll be adding those guys in the next iteration of the video.

No problem. Everything considered, if I had been able to join the military I would give more of a look at the Marines. A great uncle (my paternal grandfather's older brother) started in the Marines then switched to Navy back in the mid to late 1930's (pesky budget cuts).

Yeah it's an impressive list of Marines

+shastawolf04 Yeah I had read that he was a Drill Instructor as well. I can see him in a Smokey Bear no problem. You're right, looking back they were hilarious...but it didn't seem too funny at the time! :-D

FUNNY, DO YOU SEE SOMETHING FUNNY. DO YOU LIKE ME .DO YOU well you know. lol

Shaggy is a Gulf War Veteran who served as an 0811 in 5/10.

Thanks!...just out of curiosity did you watch the updated version or this one which is the original? I ask because in KZfaq you can't replace an existing video with an updated video. The best you can do is put a link in the original pointing to the new updated video and I'm concerned whether or not that will work very well.

That's an urban legend...he actually served in the Army... "Knotts served in the United States Army from June 21, 1943 to January 6, 1946. Discharged in the rank of Technician Grade 5, which was the equivalent of a Corporal. During his military service, Knotts was awarded the World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with 4 bronze service stars), Army Good Conduct Medal, Marksman Badge (with Carbine Bar) and Honorable Service Lapel Pin."

Pablo Flores Hi Hugh O brien was the youngest D.I. in the Corps How about Robert Ryan,Bradford Dillman,Dale Dye,Rod Carew!Also Eddie Egan the NYPD detective who was Gene Hackman's boss in the French Connection!

Thanks Sgt. Reeder! Semper Fi!

Thanks!

He's an interesting one I didn't know about...thanks for the heads up.

Yeah I think I heard that somewhere...but it was after I'd made the video...but thanks for the heads up and Semper Fi!

He served in Desert Storm.

You've got that right!

Adam Driver

+YourHumbleServant831 You're welcome and thank you!

Thank you

Yeah I think I would have too!

Unkraut60 can you say "Napalm strike"?......I knew you could.

It's Semper Fidelis so I thought it was appropriate but I have other videos with motivating soundtracks

Oh I understand but the Marine Corps Hmm is so Motivating

swear to God man I carried around my entire uniform issue compliment for over 15 years after I got out of the Marine Corps I don't know why I don't know if I thought I was going to be called up into service again or that you know they might be useful if I ever ran out of civilian clothes to wear again you know but there was I had my entire initial issue plus all the uniforms that I had acquired over 4 years in about 12 years ago actually 14 years ago I took him to his place to see if they would take them and sell them or something and they said they would chop them up and turn them into wool blankets or some crap so I just gave them to them. but I'd still go if they called me up I'm still physically fit I can out work any man 30 years older me I'd still go

@@sorseriixkronik Thank you for your service …… A ww2 veteran corrected me quietly when I called someone a ex marine …… he looked me in the eyes and said “ there is no such thing as a ex marine , just some ain’t wearing the uniform right now “ ! Dedication and honor .

Yeah she was a difficult one to verify as she served under her real name which was not Bea Arthur and for some reason refused to confirm she had served.

Her real name was Bea Frankel. Just looked it up. ;)

I know...he was a surprise to me too!

Thanks!...just out of curiosity did you watch the updated version or this one which is the original? I ask because in KZfaq you can't replace an existing video with an updated video. The best you can do is put a link in the original pointing to the new updated video and I'm concerned whether or not that will work very well.

The original! But I'm watching the new version now!

Fred Cook cool thanks!

Thanks!

Thanks Kevin...Aye aye sir!

You are correct, but first he was a Marine.... "After he learned that the Army and Navy flying schools were not taking any candidates the year he graduated from high school, he decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. Cooper left for MCRD Parris Island as soon as he graduated. However, World War II had ended before he could get into combat. He was assigned then to the Naval Academy Preparatory School and was an alternate for an appointment to Annapolis, Maryland. The man who was the primary appointee made the grade so Cooper was reassigned in the Marines on guard duty in Washington, D.C. He was serving with the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington when he was released from duty along with other Marine reservists."

...Glenn volunteered for the United States Marine Corps Reserve on December 13, 1942...He was assigned in March 1943 to active duty at the Marine Corps Base in San Diego. With his Coast Guard service, he was offered a position as an officer, but Ford declined, feeling it would be interpreted as preferential treatment for a movie star and instead entered the Marines as a private. He trained at the Marine base in San Diego...he was felled by inexplicable abdominal pain and hospitalized at the U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego with what turned out to be duodenal ulcers, an affliction for the remainder of his life. He was in and out of the hospital for the next five months, and finally received a medical discharge on the third anniversary of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1944. Though his time in the Marines was without the combat duty he had been hoping for, Ford had been serving his country for longer than it had technically been at war and won several commemorative medals for his three years in the Marines Reserve Corps: American Campaign Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal, created in 1945 for anyone who had been on active duty since December 1941.

Hi William, I mentioned Bea Arthur in these comments somewhere that she was a Marine but she never admitted serving and because that wasn't her real name it took some time to confirm. I wasn't aware of Art Buchwald, William Manchester, Red West or James Webb. As for Casper Weinberger he served in the Army.

Id always heard he was one of us, go figure. Wikipedia of Bea has a pic of her in uniform

If I ever get a chance to redo this video and add those I missed she's definitely be one I will include as it's been rumored for so long.

Thanks Leonard, I didn't know about him.

Hi Chris, Do you mean Lee Marvin?...if so you're right that he was injured in battle but it was a bit different... "Marvin left school at 18 to enlist in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 12, 1942. He served with the 4th Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World War II. While serving as a member of "I" Company, 3rd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division, he was wounded in action on June 18, 1944, during the assault on Mount Tapochau in the Battle of Saipan, during which most of his company were casualties. He was shot by machine gun fire, which severed his sciatic nerve, and then was hit again in the foot by a sniper. After over a year of medical treatment in naval hospitals, Marvin was given a medical discharge with the rank of private first class (he had been a corporal years earlier) in 1945 at Philadelphia"

It's OK...I'm not in there either...and I made it!

Wow...didn't know about him...although it's been some years since I made the video...he wasn't yet as well known. Thanks

he got discharged on year 3

Actually they chose Marines to play MEN

Didn't know about him. Thanks!

Seaver was in the reserves. I don't consider him as a hard boiled Marine.

Seaver is a Marine reservist. No action at all.

Glad you enjoyed it! Semper Fi!

True..it's just a misunderstanding by civilians I think...

You Sir are being a gentelman. i rest my case,

Thanks William glad you enjoyed it.

I'm sure you're just being funny...but he actually served in the Army.

Correct but he was a Marine first... "After he learned that the Army and Navy flying schools were not taking any candidates the year he graduated from high school, he decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. Cooper left for MCRD Parris Island as soon as he graduated. However, World War II had ended before he could get into combat. He was assigned then to the Naval Academy Preparatory School and was an alternate for an appointment to Annapolis, Maryland. The man who was the primary appointee made the grade so Cooper was reassigned in the Marines on guard duty in Washington, D.C. He was serving with the Presidential Honor Guard in Washington when he was released from duty along with other Marine reservists. Following his discharge from the Marine Corps, he went to Hawaii to live with his parents. His father was assigned to Hickam Field at the time. He started attending the University of Hawaii, and there he met his first wife, the former Trudy B. Olson of Seattle, Washington. She was quite active in flying, the only Mercury wife to have a pilot's license. They were married on August 29, 1947 in Honolulu when Gordon was 20. They continued to live there for two more years while he continued his university studies. Cooper transferred his commission to the United States Air Force in 1949, was placed on active duty and received flight training at Perrin Air Force Base, Texas and Williams AFB, Arizona....

Semper Fi! Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks Semper Fi!

Thanks! Semper Fi!