re: #481 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Holy Shit!

That put him in the 4th Marines — the “New Fourth”, formed in 1944 by consolidating the Raider battalions. My Dad was never in one of the Raider Bns, but IIRC, he WAS in the 4th on Okinawa.

My dad was with the 4th but on Iwo