37 years ago.....lest we forget

[dwhitehorne]

that incident is what prompted Commandant Al Grey to implement a change in USMC policy that required every Marine on sentry duty anywhere in the world would carry a loaded weapon.

The unfortunate thing about that order is General Grey made that call in 1987 right before I went in. When I reported to 2/8 weapons company in March of 88 a few of the NCO's in the Battalion were in Beirut. They were in Grenada and left to go to Beirut. I remember all of the officers surrounding one of our Sergeant's during an Alphas inspection because non of them had ever seen a combat action ribbon on someone who wan't in Vietnam. David