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Military/Defense News / Re: The Marine Corps That Should Have Been
« Last post by Maj. Bill Martin on Today at 05:22:46 pm »Al Gray was a great Commandant. Got to meet him back in 1987 when he came to Quantico to talk tactics with instructors. He sat in our office for a couple of hours with a dozen of us, just drinking beer and talking shop.
That was after he had skipped a scheduled lunch with the visiting Commander of the Soviet Naval Infantry, and chose to eat with a bunch of junior enlisted Marines instead.
That was after he had skipped a scheduled lunch with the visiting Commander of the Soviet Naval Infantry, and chose to eat with a bunch of junior enlisted Marines instead.