PT Boat 109 commanded by LT John F. Kennedy The Navy, more than any branch, harbors mysteries. How long is a fathom? What is “gedunk”? How do you pronounce “boatswain” or “fo’cle”? Who is Davy Jones, and what’s in his locker? But even the Navy has a hard time explaining the most
The monument at the starting point of the Alaska Highway Ten years ago, WWII veteran Henry Geyer came to the Veterans Breakfast Club and told us about building the Alaskan (Alcan) Highway with the Army Corps of Engineers in 1942. He didn’t have fond memories of the Yukon wilderness. “I hated it!”
Last week on the Scuttlebutt, Marine Corps vet James Martin told a hilarious story about when the first guy in his squad was finally able to take a shower after 3 months without one. While he doesn't remember who it was, he does remember what shampoo was used. His story is hilarious--TikTok loved it, too!
All he did was give candy to children. But in doing so, Lt. Gail Halvorsen inadvertently launched what was perhaps the greatest publicity campaign of the Cold War. One day during the Berlin Airlift in July 1948, C-54 pilot Halvorsen saw thirty hungry children huddled outside the barbed wire at Tempelhof Airport. “When the
The VBC is excited to announce that We Left as Brothers will air on WQED-TV on Saturday, November 21 at 10:00pm. In March of 2018, eighteen members of Pittsburgh’s Veterans Breakfast Club traveled to Vietnam to tour old battlefields of what Americans called the Vietnam War. They started in Hanoi, the heart of
This week’s Scuttlebutt episode is a special one. We couldn’t cram all the good things our guests had to say about the Marine Corps into one episode, so we’re coming in hot with an OORAH! Part 2. We’re spending the bulk of the episode with James as he reacts to a video of Marines
