18 Jun 20 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Lewis Puller inspecting a groop of Marines, 26 Jan 1951

Puller received the second-highest U.S. military award five times (one of only two persons so honored): five Navy Crosses and one U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross. He was the second of two U.S. servicemen (after U.S. Navy submarine commander Roy Milton Davenport) to ever receive five Navy Crosses.

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[Sarge1998]

No picture for me.

[browningautorifle]

I couldn't see it so I went looking, then posted the pic myself. That always makes it appear so I delete the second pic...don't know why it works that way.

[Tom in N.J.]

No pic for me.

[Surpmil]

For those of us who had a think a minute about who "Lewis Puller" was, he was usually known as "Chesty Puller"

If he was down in Nicaragua he probably served under Gen. Smedley Butler, who reported making the place safe for the United Fruit Company in his memoir "War is a Racket", IIRC.