Mizzou Marines
Detachment #828
“In the Army, shock troops are a
small minority supported by a vast group of artisans, laborers, clerks and
organizers. In the Marines there are practically nothing but shock troops.”
Combat correspondent John Lardner, 6
March 1945 report on Iwo Jima in New Yorker magazine, 17 March 1945
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Monthly
meetings are the first Wednesday of the month, 6:00 PM at the American Legion,
600 S. Legion Lane, Columbia, MO.
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