1 Jun 2025 2:30 pm
You were a REMF, you only ever saw fire going one way.*Huey » 16 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Speaking of lying.....the Navy abandoned the Marines after the landing. The marines did not have the airfield, and there was no Navy ships to be evacuated to.
SO lying ****, who cares what you say with your **** stories. You are full of **** about your father, your uncle and your grandfather who was a late addition to your tales.
However, determined to hold Guadalcanal and prevent that Allied toehold in the Solomon Islands, the Japanese quickly regrouped, attacking the Allies during the Battle of Savo Island, Aug. 8 to 9, in a brutal rout that cost the U.S. three cruisers and Australia one. Japanese ships received minimal damage, according to History And Heritage Command, which cited the battle as one of the worst defeats in U.S. naval history. The Navy withdrew, accused of abandoning the Marines, but naval leaders at the time needed to preserve their limited supply of ships, said Havern.
https://allhands.navy.mil/Stories/Artic ... adalcanal/
Not the origin in of the citation, Full of **** Boy.
You spend more time going on about your service in one day than my father and uncle - both combat veterans - ever thought of doing in all the time I knew them.
I didn't even know my uncle's story til after he died.
You claimed to have participated in HALO jumps - for entertainment purposes.