COMMENTS ABOUT AND
PICTURES OF
USMC PUBLIC AFFAIRS
MEMBERS I SERVED WITH
FROM 1975 - 1982

Pictured at right:
Bruce Bentley, Larry Lambert
Tom Rutherford, Steve Igo
 (Photo by: Tom Guido)




(Last Update On: January 31, 2005)



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I served with in the PAO field from 1975 - 1982


1980 8th MCD PANCO Conference in New Orleans.

FRONT ROW:

Sgt Greg Polhamus, Sgt Tina Talton; Sgt Tom Rutherford; SSgt Dave Treadway.

SECOND ROW:

GySgt Dan Webb; SSgt Dave Marriott; SSgt Bob Torres; SSgt Bill Walker.

THIRD ROW:

Capt Stu Wagner; Sgt Ed Burns; GySgt Carl Achterberger; MGySgt Ed Evans.


Bruce Bentley bought this old Chevy
and drove us up north a few times in it.


Sergeant Jim Klick taken prisoner
while covering a training exercise
with 9th Marines from Camp Schwab
(Wouldn't give up that smoke though)


Capt. Jim Eakle, PAO-er & the.
San Diego Padres "Tuba Man"


Bruce Bentley, Bob Demuth,
Richard Hollingsworth, & Larry Lambert.
(Mark Mahoney's behind Hollingsworth)


Steve Igo,
Doug Lord
Oscar Sester.


Marine PAO folks at the
Northern Tip of Okinawa:
Randy Johnson (honorary PAO-er);
Tom Guido, Bruce Bentley,
and Larry Lambert.


Jeff Parins
showing off the
catch of the day.


(From left) Jeff Parins arm;
John Black; Dave Pierce; me;
SSgt Gray on Okinawa.


Tom Guido (walking away),
Doug Lord (with cue) in rec room
of Zukeran barracks, Okinawa.


SSgt. Cal Openshaw &
GySgt. W.C. Grindstaff.


Michelle Facciolli pitchin'
that old softball.


MGySgt. Don Coleman.

Marine PAO LCpl.
Lorri Newcombe on right.

Marine PAO
Sgt. Bill Wright.

Dave Ramsey
&
Jeff Parins.

Dave Ramsey, Amy Wendell,
Dan (?), Mike Eck, &
Pam Shultze (Scott's wife).

Jeff Parins
&
Bill Wright (Elvis?).

LtCol. Jon Abel
visits with
MSgt. Chuck McCormick.

Okinawa Marine PAO
LCpl. Lorrie Newcomb
on the phone
outside the gate of
MCB Butler headquarters.

USMC PAO Marines
Bob Demuth and Bill Wright
at the northern tip
of Okinawa.

Marine PAO LCpl. Larry Lambert
sleeping on the job.

Camp Smedley D. Butler
Headquarters Sign.


Jeff Parins, me at the Camp Hansen PAO Bureau.

Jeff Parins,
solo at the Camp Hansen
PAO Bureau.

Jeff Parins, going to work at the
Camp Hansen PAO Bureau. He was already
keeping "attorney's hours" while there.

Major David Wells
Acting PAO at MCLB Albany

Mick Young
at PAO Lejeune

Bruce Bentley
climbing the cliffs

Larry Lambert
having way
too much fun

Larry Lambert
climbing the coral


Michelle Facciolli
thinking about it

PAO Outing
in the surf

PAO folks
enjoy the waves

Larry Lambert, Doug Lord
& Tom Guido shooting pool
in the Zukeran barracks rec room

Debbie Scott
hard at work at the
MCLB Albany, GA, PAO shop

PAO friend
Linda Evans visiting
the shop at MCLB Albany

Another PAO friend
Jean Watterson (l) and a
Marine SSgt. "yuck it up"

Larry Lambert and Bob Demuth
in the "falls" on Okinawa

Tom Rutherford
standing near the falls

LtCol. A.P. Brill, PAO,
interviewing
MajGen. Herbert Wilkerson.

Jeff Parins silhoutted
on Oki's north shore.

North Okinawa
rice paddies.

Another view of
North Okinawa rice paddies.


Bob Demuth, Tom Guido, Tom Rutherford, & Bruce Bentley.

MCLB ALBANY, GEORGIA:
GySgt Marv Price is leading the right squad;
I'm the third man back in the next squad;
Behind me, but not visible in the pic, are
Sgt. Angie Peraza and LCpl. Debbie Scott.

Marines in our 1975 DINFOS class picture are:
Tom Guido, Bruce Bentley, me, and Larry Lambert.

Jeff Parins wandering the northern beach of Okinawa.

Bill Davis, Publisher of the Albany Journal
(where we published the Emblem, the MCLB Albany, GA, base newspaper).

Camp Butler Public Affairs Office, Okinawa, Japan.

Okinawa PAO on an outing to north point of island.
(l-r) Bob Demuth, Larry Lambert, John Black, Bill Wright, Lorrie Newcomb,
Michelle Facciolle, Karen Black, me, Dave Ramsey.

Marine PAO Northern Bureau Chief, Sgt. John Black
amid our extravagant office decor.

Commodore Perry Marker in Southern Okinawa.

Camp Hansen Barracks that housed the PAO Northern Bureau Staff.

PAO Sgt. Jim Klick
as far north as he
could go on Okinawa.

PFC Chris Dies & LCpl. Schott:
Two of my friends from 1st Bn, 4th Marines
setting up their M60 during a training exercise
while I was assigned to the Camp Hansen PAO Shop.

Photo taken at Jackson Square during the
8th MCD PANCO Conference in 1980.

A most embarrasing moment--tried to sprint a mile.
Didn't quite make it.







PICTURES OF ME
FROM MY USMC
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DAYS
(1975 - 1982)



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