GUNG-HO

(Gung-Ho salutes in his Marine dress blues.)

CODE NAME:

Gung-Ho

FILE NAME:

La Fitte, Etienne R.

BIRTH PLACE:

Fer-de Lance, Louisiana

SN:

#

BRANCH:

Marines

GRADE:

E-7

PRIMARY MILITARY SPECIALTY:

Recondo Instructor

SECONDARY MILITARY SPECIALTY:

Jungle Warfare Training Instructor

SPECIAL TRAINING:

Airborne School, Jungle Warfare, Marines, Recondo School, Qualified Ground weapons expert

EXPECTED ARMAMENT:

Dress sword

CURRENT ASSIGNMENT:

#

FIRST DEPLOYMENT:

1983

AREA OF OPERATIONS:

Jungle/swamplands

     Gung-Ho was born and raised in a swamp, went to boot camp in a swamp, and spent most of his Marine Corps career sneaking around in other countries' swamps with a grenade launcher in his hands.  He can low-crawl through the nastiest black-water, stinking mud, and bubbling slime for a week with half his body covered in leeches and the other half raw with bug bites and still make a 0700 inspection formation with polished brass, spit-shined shoes, razor creases, and a mean look in his eye.  That's a Marine.

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