MARINE BARRACKS BEIRUT

[jimbo728]

Wow...I sure remember that day. I was still onboard the Brewton and berthed at our homeport NAVSTA Pearl Harbor. Our Marine gate guards were more stoic than usual and we treated them with a little more respect than usual in the following weeks. I later served with a guy who was on the New Jersey and talked about "payback day" when the Jersey sat offshore from Lebanon and pounded Hezbollah positions with it's 16" guns. I think he said they expended almost a thousand shells.

A friends Dad, a retired Chief Gunners Mate, was recalled to active duty to serve on the New Jersey. It took a few old timers to make the 16" guns go. He was one of them. While still in they diagnosed prostate cancer and cured him.
Jim