Lawyer in West Memphis, Arkansas. Licensed in Tennessee (2007) and Arkansas (2007), and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas. I belong to the Sgt. Walter K. Singleton Post, American Legion, Memphis, TN. M48A3 Main Battle Tank - I was driving one of these before I even had my first car! I belong the the Marine Corps Interrogator Translator Association. Since this MOS no longer exists in the United States Marine Corps, this organization was formed as a "Last-Man Standing" fraternity of Marines who have at one time held the 0251 MOS. www.mcitta.org
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Held the following MOSs: 1811 - Tank Crewman (M48A3 & M60A1) 0151 - Administration (Additional MOS) 0251 - Interrogator Translator (Arabic-Egyptian; Persian-Farsi; Norwegian languages) 0231 - Intelligence Analyst (Additional MOS) My primary MOS no longer exists in the Regular Marine Corps. About 2002 the Interrogator Translator MOS (0251) was discontinued (except as a Reserve MOS) and all remaining Interrogator Translators on active duty were absorbed into the Counterintelligence (0211) MOS. Good things in life - Retirement, the Vietnam Era GI Bill, and self-sufficiency. Love fly fishing - built my own split-bamboo rod; tie my own flies.
In Memory of Gunnery Sergeant Ronald E. Baum, United States Marine Corps Killed in action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq on May 3, 2004, during an ambush when his vehicle was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Gunnery Sergeant Baum was an Interrogator Translator who was redesignated a Counterintelligence Marine. Thank you Gunny for your sacrifice. You are and will be missed.
Best Friends CWO3 David Jones - liberty in London and the last train back to Southampton.
Best Moment The highlight of this cruise was taking part in the D-Day 50th Anniversary commemoration in England and France.
Worst Moment The transit through the Red Sea. It was so hot that everyone was restricted to inside the skin of the ship unless absolutely essential. The tops of the ships were painted white to reflect the heat.
Chain of Command MEU CO: Col. P.T. Metzger S-2: Maj. T.J. Meyer S-2A: Capt. P. Gentile HET OIC & CI Officer: CWO3 David Jones HET NCOIC & ITT SubTm Cmdr: GySgt Snell ITT: SSgt. Curtis Ferrell ITT: Sgt. A. Espinoza CI: Sgt. E. Evans CI: Sgt. G. Heyborne
Other Memories In 1994, I was assigned to Permanent Shore Patrol while with 26 MEU SOC onboard USS Guam. We were on a portcall in Corfu, Greece and I had duty. We had a shore patrol station set up at the pier and were running boats.
About 2130 three of my shore patrol came to the pier carrying a really, really drunk sailor. This guy was out of it, and really combative, so much that I had to put cuffs on him. This didn't help much, so we put irons on his ankles, but he still fought. The shore patrol had him on the ground, but it was starting to get pretty rough, and I didn't want any of the shore patrol members to get in trouble for excessive force, so I put my knee on his ear and held him down and had the rest of the shore patrol back off.
In the meantime, the ship's Captain came by and identified the young sailor as his yeoman, and said that I couldn't send him back to the ship until he sobered up because he was afraid he'd fall off the boat and drown. I really didn't want to have to keep watch over this kid until morning, so I radioed out to the ship and had them send out two stokes stretchers on the next boat.
When they arrived, I put the sailor, who was still fighting, in one stretcher then put the second over him like a coffin - or clamshell - and strapped the two together. That held him til morning, when I could get him on a boat back to the ship. For the rest of the cruise, I was known as Gunny "Clamshell."
M48A3 Main Battle Tank - I was driving one of these before I even had my first car! 
I belong the the Marine Corps Interrogator Translator Association. Since this MOS no longer exists in the United States Marine Corps, this organization was formed as a "Last-Man Standing" fraternity of Marines who have at one time held the 0251 MOS. 
