Sumter (LST 1181) - Naval Cruise Book

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HE DQUART ERS PL TOO Ist Sgt. Ayala, 1st Capt Day. I IST Lt. Roger Rock Pollard is Braves X O He enlisted in 1974 and served in a wide range of billets in Marine Reconnaisance. He attended Jump, Scuba, JES71 Ranger and M WTC schools, among oth ers. As a staff Sergean t, he was selected for the MCSEP program and received a BA in History at the University of Texas. Since his commissioning in 1983 he has served with Bra vo. He was born in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1956. Ist Sgt. Juan F. Ayala was born and raised in the South Bronx. Joining the Corps in 1971, he has served variously a heavy equipment op- erator, warehouseman, drill instructor both at Parris Island and NAPS in Newport, RI He has been to a full range of schools in his MOS as well as the Staff NCO Academy and Staff NCO Advanced course. He is 34 and has been the Bravo Co lst Sgt since 1983. Ist Lt Tod A. Montrello Observer for Fox Batteryg 2f10, attached to Bravo. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1961,.he graduated from Roger Williams College in Rhode Island with a BS in Urban planning. Commissioned in 1984, he is a graduate of the Army Field Artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He has been part of Bravo since April 1986. g Gysgt D.E. Day Has been Bravols Company Gunnery Sergeant since 1982. A 34 year old na- tive ofM1ssouri, he joined the Corps in 1972. He served at Marine Barracks, McAlister, 1621 duty and was a Drill Instructor in San Diego before coming to 116. He has ta ttended M WTC is Winter 8: summer courses, techniques of special opera- tions and the combat shooters course. Gysgt Day's first name is issued only on a need to known basis., Mg K .1 1 r I Vx ,Qx .., V it ,N I its .. ' P 51:1 Q 5.31 . -5 1 'I Nw x ,mi Q 1,3 HEADQUARTERS N w I giruam Lcpl AT. McMahan RTO f-fill Jf1'- bkrwenecke Armoror Cp! IMT. Cudmnn Armorer LCP! M-4 - W'lll11l1lS Cp! I..M. Anderson Clerk V Ol N., ,, CPI I?..l'. PHYBFIIIB Polic-0 LCP! HC- Yslwn IU LFDI RH Nelms r mm l UH A lava ut' lnpl D B Johnson My HN l Mylan ez N l'l WIA-Wi1'if1'I1H lql in Mp r L I HMS! MM. Grave. N

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'i O0- 'ffl I' by so we After some serious training we splashed and headed back t . o the Sumter. Becaus f f d '- 510175, We sat out Morocco and tried to amuse ourselves. eo Sur can I V gif wwf adv? stuffed ourselves, shot trap and got grease on our PT But mostly We just hung around in the troop holds. 'Q-meal ,vw wwsua 1 Sumter Marines had the best llberty record m the MARG, But Bravo stH1 got stuck in the Held for Christmas. r

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W J, H Mchols and Cpl O. D. Adams and Lf'CplMatt1'n- D. Rencharge, were attached to he Battalion Headquarters They t . fully into the Navy cooks onboard t went ashore for extended opera- ,f f is 2 N f 7 a 1 f ,. ag! M. ' if . ' x' t A Q Q, fa , gi 4 A l ,Q -Kg? in ff. ,. Q-sg'W?5r'5 , sg? f . c iiff V ' J ' C M, all d EI, the 'Roy Brothers i i' I sfsgf J. Ii Nichols was born m 1959 in Ala- bama. He joined the Marine Corps in 1977 and has been in food service continually since then, completing the Staff NCO management course at Camp Johnson, NC, He has served in El Toro, CA, Camps Foster and Hansen in Okinawa, Beaufort, S. C. and Geiger and Le- jeune in N. C. C www . I 'ia WSWS ,,,..sQ. X kwa XX L!Cpl Johnson Doing what Hq. does best. Lt. Rock Pollard: Great American Hero? L!Cpl's Meyers and Yelton haste obviously been drop-tested one too many times. 'Ls MM., locals American exchange students and assorted mixed others I1 f' t !Headquarters, , , egypt? Zhoke people iujvegfjonefij igzvorite bar in Valencia - the last place anyone had any real liberty. 91