Burrington, Ray, Cpl

Data Systems

TWS Ribbon Bar

Service Photo

Service Details

Current Service Status
USMC Veteran

Current/Last Rank
Corporal

Current/Last Primary MOS
4034-Computer Operator

Current/Last MOSGroup
Data Systems

Primary Unit
1969-1970, 4034, MCB Camp Foster H&S Co Bn, Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC)

Service Years
1968 - 1970

Official/Unofficial USMC Certificates

Cold War Certificate

Official Badges

Unofficial Badges

Military Associations and Other Affiliations

Veterans Administration - My Life, My Story


	1999, American Legion, Post 102 - Dilworth, Cornell, Quey (Manchester, Connecticut)
	2006, Marine Corps League, Hardware City; Detachment 781 (Life Member) (New Britain, Connecticut)
	2008, Military Order of the Devil Dogs, Pound 131 (PDD) (Connecticut)
	2020, Marine Corps League, Peter P. Monaco Jr.; Detachment 40 (Life Member) (Glastonbury, Connecticut)
	2021, Veterans Administration - My Life, My Story
	2021, Veterans Administration - My Life, My Story

Additional Information

What are you doing now:

-retired by merger - Info Sys Mgr
-retired: computer instructor - Manchester Comm College
-CT Nntl Guard - Military Funerals VSO unit
-caregiver, wife has FTD

Other Comments:

MCL 781 Life Member, New Britain CT - Honors Detail team [grave side rifle salutes] M1 Garands - Wake Detail team [& casket ceremony] ... [2007-2022= 703 funerals; 201 wakes] - handling all services [mostly Marine Veterans] - area = north Central Connecticut, dispatched by CT Nntl Guard. Scholarship Chr; Budget Cmte; Audit Cmte; WEB Sgt ... [discontuined some due to wife's illness].

MCL 40 - additional join - 2020 Life Member. Glastonbury CT

Dept of CT MCL - Sgt at Arms; Tolland Cty Cmdt
MODD - MAD DOG - CT PACK 11 yrs; Pound 131 1 yr+ [thru 2021]

Remembrance Profiles - 2 Marines Remembered

Lawson, George, Cpl

Rooney, Shelby, Cpl, (1967-1971)

Ribbon Bar

Enlisted/Officer Basic Training


	1968, Boot Camp (Parris Island, SC), 398

Unit Assignments

Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC)


	1968-1968, Marine Combat Training Bn, School of Infantry EAST (SOI East)
	1968-1969, 4034, Base Communications, HQ Bn
	1969-1970, 4034, MCB Camp Foster H&S Co Bn, Marine Corps Installations Pacific (MCIPAC)

Formal Schools and Courses


	1969-1970, Electronic Fundamentals Training Course (Camp Foster, Okinawa)
	1969-1970, Scuba Training Course (Camp Foster, Okinawa)

Colleges Attended



	1964-1973, University of Connecticut
	1969-1969, University of California, San Diego
	1977-1980, University of Hartford