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

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COLONEL L. R. OGLE Colonel Larry R. Ogle was born in Rolla, Missouri on 17 June 1937 and graduated from Rolla, High School in 1955. He received an NROTC appointment to the University of New Mexico in 1957. Upon graduation from the University of New Mexico in 1961, he was commissioned and attended the Basic School at Quantico, Virginia. Initially assigned to the Second Marine Division in 1962, Colonel Ogle served as a Rifle Platoon Commander, Company Executive Officer and Battalion Intelligence Officer for the First Battalion, Second Marines. While serving with the Second Marine Division, Colonel Ogle graduated from Jungle Warfare School in Panama, Jump School and Amphibious Reconnaissance School. In 1964, Colonel Ogle was assigned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, where he served as a Series Officer, Third Recruit Training Battalion and as the Scheduling Officer, Recruit Training Regiment. He was next ordered to the Republic of South Vietnam, where he served as Advisor for the Nine Strike Force Companies in Rung Sat Special Zone. On return to the United States, Colonel Ogle served as the Officer Selection Officer, St. Louis, Missouri and attended Amphibious Warfare School at Quantico, Virginia. In 1968, Colonel Ogle was assigned to the Third Marine Division in Northern I Corps, Vietnam. He served as Intelligence Officer, Fourth Marines: Operations Officer, Second Battalion, Fourth Marines and as the Third Marine Division Combat Intelligence!Reconnaissance Officer. In 1969, he was transferred to the Development Center at Quantico, Virginia where he served as a Project Officer. In 1972, Colonel Ogle was assigned as the Marine Tactics Instructor at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point where he taught Combined Arms Operations, Special Operationsllnfantry Tactics and Amphibious Operations. He attended the Navy Command and Staff School in 1975. Upon graduation, he was assigned to the Second Marine Division where he served as Operations Officer, Second Battalion, Eighth Marines and as the Division, G-3 Training Officer. In 1978, Colonel Ogle attended Air War College. Upon graduation, he was transferred to the First Marine Air Wing, Okinawa where he served as Commanding Officer, Wing Transport Squadron. Colonel Ogle returned to the Air University as the Marine Instructor in 1980, in 1982, he was assigned as the Commanding Officer, N ROTC Unit, University of Rochester. In 1985, Colonel Ogle reported to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, where he served as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Personal Services. In 1986, Colonel Ogle was assigned as the Commanding Officer, Recruit Training Regiment on Parris Island. Colonel Ogle's personal decorations include two Bronze Stars with Combat HV , three Navy Commendations with Combat V , Purple Heartg Air Medal, Army Commendation: Vietnamese Honor Medal, First Classg Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver and Bronze Starsg Combat Action Ribbon and several Campaign and Service Awards. Colonel Ogle is married to the former Sandra Ann O'Quinn of Montgomery, Alabama. They have four children: Michelle, Wendy, Mike, and Chris.

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OP NN T THE MENTAL AND MORAL QUALITIES of 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, courage, faithfulness and self-sacrifice. The rich tradition of the Corps dates back to November 10, 1775, when it was established by the Contintental Congress. 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 Bahamas in 1776. Marines ended their war with the Mediterranean 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 detaclunents from the ships of Commodore Perry's fleet. Under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, U.S.A., Marines captured John Brown at Harper's 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 other 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 I, men of the Corps campaigned in the Philippines, 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 tenacity 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, Champagne, and the Meuse-Argonne, Marine units were decorated six times by the French during these campaigns. The interim between world wars found the Marines engaged in developing the technique of amphibious warfare and in their traditional pursuits around the globe, from guarding the U.S. mails to fighting bandits in Nicaragua. World War I I 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 continued to serve the nation, by having duty in Korea, Lebenon, Vietnam, Lebenon again and Grenada. 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.