Banchs, Wil, Sgt

Infantry
 
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 Service Details
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Current Service Status
USMC Veteran
Current/Last Rank
Sergeant
Current/Last Primary MOS
0351-Assaultman
Current/Last MOSGroup
Infantry
Previously Held MOS
0300-Basic Infantryman
8152-Marine Corps Security Force (MCSF) Guard
0651-Data Network Specialist
Primary Unit
1988-1993, 0351, 1st Marines
Service Years
1985 - 1993
Other Languages
Italian
Spanish
Official/Unofficial USMC Certificates
Cold War Certificate
Golden Shellback Certificate
Shellback Certificate
Persian Excursion
Enlisted Collar Insignia
Sergeant
Two Hash Marks

 Official Badges 

PMI Pith Helmet US Marines Corps Honorable Discharge


 Unofficial Badges 

Cold War Medal Shellback Golden Shellback Persian Excursion

Blue Star


 Military Associations and Other Affiliations
Post 8154, George R. Baxmann
  2008, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), Post 8154, George R. Baxmann (Chaplain) (United States)


 Additional Information
What are you doing now:

Member VFW Post 8737 - San Bernardino, CA The USMC is over 232 years of romping, stomping, hell, death and destruction. The finest fighting machine the world has ever seen. We were born in a bomb crater, our mother was an M-16 and our father was the devil.

Each moment that I live is an additional threat upon your life. I am a rough looking, roving soldier of the sea. I am cocky, self-centered, overbearing, and I do not know the meaning of fear, for I am fear itself. I am a green, amphibious monster made of blood and guts who arose from the sea, festering on anti-Americans throughout the globe. Whenever it may arise, and when my time comes, I will die a glorious death on the battle field, giving my life to mom, the Corps, and the American flag.

We stole the eagle from the Air Force, the anchor from the Navy, and the rope from the Army. On the 7th day, while God rested, we over-ran his perimeter and stole the globe, and we've been running the show ever since. We live like soldiers and talk like sailors and slap the hell out of both of them. Soldier by day, lover by night, drunkard by choice, MARINE BY GOD!!! Marine Enlisted Insignia and Accoutrement

U.S. Marines Monument, San Clemente, CA

Marine Corps Infantry - fear the men who live and fight with more than pure determination and the spirit of brotherhood and traditions they aspire to uphold.

   
Other Comments:

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 Remembrance Profiles - 3 Marines Remembered


Training Exercise - Team Spirit '88
From Month/Year
January / 1988
To Month/Year
December / 1988

Description
Team Spirit was a joint military training exercise of United States Forces Korea and the Military of South Korea held between 1976 and 1993. The exercise was scheduled from 1994 to 1996 but cancelled in each year as part of diplomacy to encourage the Government of North Korea to disable the North Korean nuclear weapons program. The North Korea regime abandoned talks following the January 1986 Team Spirit exercises, and in late 1992, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the South-North High-Level Talks on the pretext of the 1993 Team Spirit exercise.

Until 2007 the exercise had been called "Reception, Staging, Onward Movement and Integration of Forces" (RSOI). As of March 2008, it is called Key Resolve. North Korea has denounced the joint military exercise as a "war game aimed at a northward invasion."
   
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
January / 1988
To Month/Year
December / 1988
 
Last Updated:
Mar 16, 2020
   
Personal Memories
   
My Photos From This Battle or Operation
No Available Photos

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  • Aicklen, Michael, Cpl, (1985-1989)
  • Aikey, Michael, Cpl, (1983-1988)
  • Alexander, Jr., Robert W., MSgt, (1986-2010)
  • Allen, Juan, MSgt, (1984-2008)
  • Andrew, Donald, Sgt, (1985-1993)
  • Arevalo, David, GySgt, (1984-2004)
  • Atwood, Walter, MGySgt, (1981-2007)
  • Bailey, Jeffrey, Cpl, (1985-1989)
  • Bailey, Robert, Cpl, (1985-1993)
  • Baltzell, Tim, Cpl, (1986-1990)
  • Barajas, Enrique, GySgt, (1988-2008)
  • Barnes, Herman (Blake), Sgt, (1984-1993)
  • Barrett, Brian, GySgt, (1978-2001)
  • Barsalou, John, Cpl, (1984-1988)
  • Bartley, Brian, LCpl, (1984-1990)
  • Bartz, Gary, Cpl, (1987-1992)
  • Bastin, Jr, Johnny Ray, Cpl, (1983-1990)
  • Bell, Brandon, Sgt, (1987-1993)
  • Berry, Charles, SSgt, (1987-2017)
  • Berryhill, Tim, Sgt, (1981-1993)
  • Biedenbender, George, CWO5, (1973-1996)
  • Bishop, James, SSgt, (1987-2008)
  • Bishop, Richard, Sgt, (1981-1992)
  • Bitner, Andrew, Sgt, (1986-1992)
  • Bitner, Andy, Sgt, (1986-1992)
  • Blocker, Shawn, SSgt, (1985-1994)
  • Blythe, Michael, GySgt, (1981-2002)
  • Boehler, Michael, LCpl, (1986-1990)
  • Boffeli, Michael, GySgt, (1985-2005)
  • Bolechowski, Keith, Cpl, (1984-1989)
  • Bolles, Ed, MGySgt, (1986-2013)
  • BOMHOFF, RICK, Sgt, (1987-1992)
  • Borutta, Jeff, Cpl, (1986-1990)
  • Bourgeois, Glenn, MSgt, (1986-2009)
  • Brewster, James, Cpl, (1988-1992)
  • Brice, Phillip, Cpl, (1985-1989)
  • Brown, Jim, SSgt, (1981-2001)
  • Bryant, Roger, Sgt, (1982-1992)
  • Buckley, Ron, 1stSgt, (1981-2002)
  • Burt, Greg, LCpl, (1985-1989)
  • Buschelman, Terrance, LtCol, (1971-1998)
  • Bustamante, Joseph, Sgt, (1987-1999)
  • Butler, John, MSgt, (1985-Present)
  • Butler, Rudy, GySgt, (1981-2002)
  • Cacciatore, Anthony, LtCol, (1982-2004)
  • Calhoun, Linda, Sgt, (1981-2003)
  • Calvillo, Frank, Capt, (1987-2007)
  • Capps, Michael, GySgt, (1987-2008)
  • Carlin, Samuel, Cpl, (1985-1989)
  • Carlise, Lemoine, Cpl, (1986-1990)
  • Carpenter, Mitch, Cpl, (1987-1993)
  • Caruso, Randall, Cpl, (1986-1991)
  • Cavaleri, Stephen, Sgt, (1984-1990)
  • Center, Michael, Sgt, (1986-1991)
  • Chavez, Alex, Sgt, (1986-1991)
  • Chavez, Eugene, SSgt, (1987-2010)
  • Ciprian, Gary, MGySgt, (1979-2009)
  • Cloutier, Rick, GySgt, (1983-2004)
  • Coats, Steve, Cpl, (1985-1991)
  • Coffer, Preston, Cpl, (1987-1991)
  • Cogswell, Robert, SSgt, (1987-1998)
  • Colella, Michael, Cpl, (1987-1991)
  • Collins, Scott, LCpl, (1986-1990)
  • Cook, Brent, SgtMaj, (1986-2015)
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  • Culhane, Kenneth, MGySgt, (1980-2010)
  • Daily, Charles, MGySgt, (1985-Present)
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  • Davila, Daniel, Sgt, (1984-1992)
  • Davis, Gene, Cpl, (1986-1991)
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