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                        ~ETINO At~ A MCRNIN~ S~VE

        One morning following a hot breakfast, a Marine Captain was
     enjoying a shave with hot water from an innnersion heater.   In the
     distance sounded the constant rumbling of air strikes, artillery
     and naval gun fire pounding Iraqi forces twenty miles to the north
     In Kuwait.  A PFC walked up to the Captain and in a nervous voice
     respectfully requested permission to speak.   Permission granted,
     the young Marine requested to know if the was going well for the
     United States.  Rather thanegive a blunt reply In the affirmative,
   - the Captain asked the Marine if he had eaten a h~t n~al   for
     breakfast.  The Marine said yes.  And when the Captain asked if
 * *~the.PFC~bad slept well the previous night and without disturbance
     from the noise of air strikes and artillery and naval gun fires,
     the yo~thf~J~Marine said yes.  Fitnally, just as the Battleship
     Missouri fired a particularly loud salvo of shells,  the Captain
     asked~the Marine if he thought any Iraqi Captains were shaving in
     their bunkers as they spoke.   Suddently the PFC was relieved; he
     realized his and his unit's circumstances were a heck of a lot
     more comfortable and secure than his foes only 20 miles away.

                              VALENTI~ BA~IES

        Two Marine First Lieutenants   in 2nd Battalion, 3d Marines
     share the same last name, Smith.  Both are married and their wives
     delivered healthy babies on Valentine's Day

        As 2nd Battalion, 3d Marines motor marched through burning oil
     fields with fires ten stories high en route to their final
     objective, Kuwait International Airport, a solemn mood overcame
     everyone. The destruction,  the sky jet black with the smoke of
     burning oil,  just as dark as night.   The entire scene was unreal,
     spooky1 until over the Battalion Tactical Operations Net cracked
     an order from a Company Corrmander: 111n*mediate resupply of
     marshmallows ` ` `

        Submitted by anonymous Marines from 2nd Battalion, 3d Marines


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