I am retired and busy maintaining this site on Marines TWS and my site on Air Force TWS. I also maintain a Family site on Army TWS in memory of my father and my best friend Jim Snyder who was KIA in Vietnam.
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I started my military career in the USMC in 1958. After 6 years in the Corps and a number of years in law enforcement I enlisted in the USAF. After a break in service, 1972 through 1978, I reenlisted in the USAF and retired in 1991
8th Communication Battalion (8th Comm) is a communications battalion in the United States Marine Corps. It is part of the II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF) and is headquartered at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Mission
On order, deploy task-organized, self-sustaining combat-ready detachments capable of providing command, control, communications, and computer (C4) support to CG MARFORLANT, CG II MEF, Subordinate MAGTF, and MEU Commanders, in support of Joint and/or Combined operations in any environment and across the spectrum of combat alls conflict
