US Marine Corps Recruit Depot - Yearbook (Parris Island, SC)

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COLONEL FLOYD H. WALDBOP, USMC CQMMANDINC OFFICER, RECRUIT TRAINING REGIMENT COLONEL FLOYD H. WALDROP assumed command of Recruit Training Regiment July 11, 1973. Colonel Waldrop was born in Shelby, North Carolina, and attended the University of South Carolina, the US. Naval Academy, and George Washington University. He was promoted to second lieutenant in June, 1947, and served with the lst Marine Division at Camp Pendleton and later at Inchon, Korea. During the Vietnam conflict, from 1969 to 1970, he again served with the lst Marine Division at Danang and earned the Legion of Merit with Combat V and the Vietnamese Cross of Callantry tCorps IeveD. Colonel Waldrop has served in Hawaii, Okinawa, and has attended three service schools and the National War College. His personal decorations include: Legion of Merit with Combat V; Bronze Star Medal with Combat V; Air Medal; Two Presidential Unit Citations; Cross of Gallantry tCorps IeveD; National Defense Service Medal with Star; Korean Service with Six Stars; the Vietnam Service Medal; and the Vietnamese Medal with Clasp. Colonel and Mrs. Waldrop are the parents of four Children.

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MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT H. BARROW, USMC COMMANDING GENERAL, MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT H. BARROW was born and reared in Louisiana. He attended L.S.U., the University of Maryland and graduate school at Tulane University. He was commissioned in' May 1943 and served during the latter part of World War II with a Chinese guerilla force which operated extensively in enemy occupied territory in central China. After the war, he remained in China for an- other year. During the Korean conflict, he participated in the Inchon- Seoul operation and the Chosin Reservoir campaign as a ri- fle company commander. During the Vietnam War, from 1964 to 1967 he served as the Plans Officer, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, arid later as an Infantry Regiment Commander whose regiment partici- pated in numerous combat actions in the vicinity of the DMZ, Khe Sanh and A Shau Valley. General Barrow has served six tours of duty in the Far East and one in the Mediterranean. He has attended two Marine Corps schools and the National War College. Dur- ing one two-year tour he participated as editor or writer in the preparation of several doctrinal publications. Prior to his current tour he was Commanding General for three years at the Marine Corps Base on Okinawa, with ad- ditional duty responsibilities for Marine Corps'installations in Japan, Guam and the Philippines. His personal United States decorations include the Navy Cross, the Army Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star, two Legions of Merit, two Bronze Stars and the Joint Service Commendation Medal. General and Mrs. Barrow are the parents of five children.

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THE MENTAL AND MORAL QUALITIES 0f the United States Marine have been tested constantly since the birth of the nation. All through the long history of the Marine Corps there are examples, both in war and peace, of his versatility, trustworthiness, singleness and tenacity of purpose, cour- age, faithfulness and self-sacrifice. The rich tradition of the Corps dates back to November 10, 1775, when it was established by the Contintental Con- gress. In the Revolutionary War, the Marines fought against the British Fleet on the ships of John Paul Jones, and made their first amphibious landing on the beaches of the Baha- mas in 1776. Marines ended their war with the Mediterra- nean pirates when they planted the Stars and Stripes over the pirate stronghold of Derne, in Tripoli, after a six- hundred-mile march across the desert of North Africa. In the War of 1812, they fought on Lake Champlain and Lake Erie, and were with General Jackson behind the barricades at New Orleans. They defeated the Seminole Indians in the dense swamps of Florida in 1836, and fought under General Scott in the Mexican War of 1846-48. Their first visit to Japan came in 1854 as guard detachments from the ships of Commodore Perry's fleet. Under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, U.S.A., Marines captured John Brown at Harpefs Ferry in 1859. They fought savages in Formosa in 1867, and stormed the barrier forts of Korea in 1871. During the Spanish-American War, a single battalion of Marines held the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against 6,000 Spaniards, while oth- er Leathernecks distinguished themselves at the Battle of Santiago and with Dewey at Manila. They helped quell the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and from then on until World War 1, men of the Corps campaigned in the Philip- pines, Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, and Santo Domingo to protect American lives and property. On the battlefields of France, Marines were called Devil Dogs by the Germans because of their courage and tenaci- ty of attack. In the first World War, the Fourth Brigade of Marines took part in five operations as part of the famed Second Division of the A.E.F. - Belleau Wood, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Chapagne, and the Meuse-Argonne. Marine units were decorated six times by the French during these campaigns. The interim between world wars found the Marines en- gaged in developing the technique of amphibious warfare and in their traditional pursuits around the globe, from guarding the US mails to fighting bandits in Nicaragua. World War II saw the men who wear the eagle, globe, and an anchor valiantly defend Wake Island and Bataan and then spearhead the amphibious landings across the Pacific . in the Solomons, at Tarawa, Saipan, Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, to name a few. Following the war, Marines found a new type of service - duty with United Nations Forces in Korea. The United States Marine Corps, rich in tradition and world-famed for its battle record and esprit de corps, plays an important role as the nation's force-in-readiness to help keep the peace throughout the world today.