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The Daily Lex – July 20th
Livin’ the Dream The Marines in the Af are doing it Devil Dog-style, according to Michael Yon: The U.S. Marines are a spectacle for the U.S. Army and also the British Army. The Marines will come in...
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Please, Do Tell Me Again About Your First World Problems.
Somehow, I don’t this guy really wants to hear about hard it is to find a decent Feng Shui facilitator, or how bad your bike ride was into work. Corporal Todd Love...
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Salem, IL Leckrone Airport (KSLO)
I grew up in a small town about 4 hours south of Chicago and 1 hour east of St Louis, MO in a town called Salem, IL. My first flight was from the local airport KSLO, known as Leckrone Airport....
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Pritzker Military Library American Icons Of The Great War
As some of you may or may not know I’m a member of the Pritzker Military Library and the Membership Director for the Library’s Young Professional Association. On Thursday, April 18th we will be hosting...
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Sully
Steven Day / AP File These days, I am rather jaded when it comes to driving to the cineplex to see a movie. I don’t really need some screenwriter’s social message or a recycled comic book hero. There...
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A Debt That Cannot Be Repaid
I read this yesterday, and a number of us thought it should be re-posted here. In a country that most would struggle to find on a map, in a compound that few possess the courage to enter, men from my...
View ArticleThe 200
By lex, on October 9, 2007 Two hundred Marine infantrymen of 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment who were transitioning to the civilian work force at the end of their enlistments faced a daunting...
View ArticleA Hard Fight
Posted by lex, on March 12th, 2011 Read what the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines are taking on in Afghanistan: The regiment has patrolled Sangin for nearly five months. Twenty-five Marines have died. More...
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Some Unsung Heroes
A Painting of Virginia Hall Using Her Suitcase Radio Imagine that you are a young woman in her 20s or 30s and in Britain. You are either British, French, or, at least in one case, an American. The...
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RIP Niki
The only Grand Prix that I have ever seen was in the summer of 1973, courtesy of the Army Special Services. If you were off duty they sometimes arranged day trips of the local areas. The German Grand...
View Article11th Minute of the 11th Hour of the 11th Month
…1918 was the agreed time for hostilities to cease in that “war to end all wars”. I have never been one who has recorded many of our family stories. Although on reflection I wish that I had. But among...
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John Basilone
If you drive up I5 from San Diego in a half hour or so you’ll transit the massive USMC base of Camp Pendleton. If you are lucky, looking to the left towards the ocean, you may see some Osprey‘s landing...
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Iwo Jima 75th Anniversary
On February 19, 1945, Operation Detachment commenced and the landings on Iwo Jima began. Seventy-five years ago, U.S. Marines came ashore on a desolate eight-square-mile volcanic island dominated by...
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The Mighty Eighth
Last year, I screened The Cold Blue, which was an amazing film. In WW2, 5 famous Hollywood directors, William Wyler, John Huston, John Ford, George Stevens, and Frank Capra went into harm’s way with...
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A Carroll “Lex” LeFon Primer
Who was Carroll LeFon? The best description of Lex that I’ve heard is “Imagine Hemingway flew fighters…and liked people.” Lex as a TOPGUN Instructor Here in his own words. How his callsign became...
View ArticleFlight 93 – some lesser known facts on that day
I have been enjoying going through the Wayback Machine one more time, combing more thoroughly some of Lex’s posts from all those years ago. I believe that I have come to know him, both in his thoughts...
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