so i go to marine corps air station buford. and great, i'm with marine air wing. at that time, marine air wing 31 was stationed there, along with marine air wing 32. each of which had three flying squadrons. and at that time, about four -- three or four of the total six flying squadrons were f-4b phantom jets. probably a couple of a-4 sky hawk jet squadrons. and then the other squadron was an f-8 crusader squadron. anyway, at the time, the structure was that each of the marine air groups would have three flying squadrons and a headquarters and maintenance squadron, and an airbase squadron. and i was in the airbase squadron. marine airbase squadron 31. they no longer have that designation. it has been subsumed into a different type of structure. but marine corps -- by the way, while i was in san diego, i kind of came to a realization that, gee, you know, i -- i miss my dad. and i realized how right he was. and gee. so i wrote him a long letter. and we reconciled. i was the one who needed the reconciliation. he was right where he was. and it was just a -- and we bec

knew no one in the marine corps and lo and behold bang! i got the marine corps recruiter. i learned there that you are only 17 so you will have to have parentalonsent and i take the forms down and of course, notary -- the forms have to be notarized. notary was a foreign concept to us. [laughs] either that or you come down and sign it. my mom is she is eh. my dad is like, give me those papers! [laughter] boom, i'm in the marine corps. this was march, sometime in march, february or march and in april 2 i am in boot camp. i immediately conclude that everybody down there has got to be crazy and i am the only sane one here. my mission in life is to hold onto my sanity somehow or other. [laughter] so, mind you i never traveled or anything like that. a big trip for me was taking a school bus trip when i was in junior high down to albany state college. that was a really big trip, you know? otherwise only travel, if you wanted to call it that, was working in driver -- as a driver's helper delivering cookies in our community. it was hollering distance from my house and drivers would

the lord led me directly to the marine corps recruiter. i had no. no reason and no relationship that would have indicated even a conversation with the marine recruiter at that time. my nearest brother was in the air force had been in the air force for a couple of years at that time and hey, i thought the world of him and my oldest brother older brother had been in the honor army. new no one in marine corps. and lo and behold bang i at the marine corps recruiter. well, i learned there that you're only 17 so you're going to have parental consent. and i take the forms down and of course notary was the forms have to be notarized. so notary was a kind of a foreign concept to us though. either that or you come down to sign it in. my mom is kind of she you know, you're so young. and yeah, my dad said give me them papers. let's go down there. so boom. i'm i'm in the marine corps, and this was march sometime in march, i guess february march and april 2nd. i'm at paris island in boot camp and i immediately conclude it. everybody down there. it's got to be craz

for doubts over someone's loyalty and allegiance. >> you're now onboard marine corps recruit depotsouth carolina! >> reporter: from day one of getting off the bus at marine boot camp, standing on the yellow footprints, giving up their personal items and getting heads shaved, marines knew they were giving up much of their personal identities to become part of something larger than themselves. >> what it means to me is that you're being shaved from, like, your civilian life, and you're joining this institution and you're going to uphold these standards. >> reporter: and on that same day when you were on the yellow footprints and they were saying, there's no black, there's no white, there's only green. >> oo-rah. >> reporter: does it stick? >> it does. >> absolutely. >> reporter: can it stand this test? >> you're getting a whole new set of core values: honor, courage and commitment. so, it's pretty easy, you know, just as long as you follow those rules and you uphold the life value and you take care of your brother on your left and right and you uphold the constitution of the united s

lieutenant fisher is starting flight school in october and plans on becoming a marine corps pilot. that is nbc "nightly news" for this sunday. lester holt will be with you tomorrow. i'm kate snow. for all of us here, stay safe and have a great night. >>> a rally for change and it started at a historic location. gathering mountain view to fight hate against the asian community. >>> more than 300 people gathered today to speak out against aapi hate and violence. they gathered where during world war ii some japanese americans boarded trains on route to internment camps. they marched to city hall and several people spoke. including

marine corps.he tradition centuries old made even more special when second lieutenant fisher's hero, his own father honored him with his first salute >> it is a privilege for your person salutes. >> reporter: the master sergeant choking back tears his voice breaking as he celebrated his son's success >> it is a great honor to say congratulations, sir on your commissioning. >> reporter: a father and son now forever linked by service. >> it was a moment we've kind of dreamed of since i was a little kid. >> i saw this young man work hard to get where he's at. you know, it's a consumelation of things that brought out all those emotions. >> reporter: that emotion in virginia striking a chord on social media it's had more than six million views, and so many comments, even more tears than i expected, such as special moment, congratulations, semper fi >> growing up, i was always attached to my dad on the hip. it was work manage the garage, mowing the lawn, just running to the store. i always wanted to be w

we're here was a general with the united states marine corps. there's with it was of a hispanic descent. but yeah, i wish i could talk a little bit more about him. but let's let's look at that in the future. but yeah. and one of the one of the side effects of being virtual i can guarantee you that rich could probably speak at length about the question. he asked so our next question from gene. can you discuss treatment hispanic americans faced while in the service as compared to the treatment of african-american soldiers? yeah, so in my book i do i do details some of the discrimination that company eve faced. one in particular is gabriel navarrete from el paso, texas? gabriel had been serving in the texas national guard since about 1939 and a lot of the the officers in company. he said well, you know gabriel we think you should your officer material. you should go ahead and and apply to officers candidate school gabriel goes and takes the test the written test. and then takes an oral test which is part of you know be going to officers candidate s

. >> for marine corps ospreys fly over arlington national cemetery.rst class, raymond warren from kansas. awarded the silver star, the nation's third highest award for valor. until last year, he was missing in action. 18,000 marines fought the japanese during world war ii. part of the island hopping campaign to take back the pacific. he exposed himself to machine gun fire to divert the enemy. he was more than 1,000 marines killed during the battle. some never to be recovered. but six years ago, an unknown burial site was discovered. mouth swabs were submitted by the family to match the dna. 76 years after the battle, warren's remains were identified. the pow-mia accounting agency took custody and flew him to washington. >> so glad to have him home. >> marine corps honor guard helped carrier their fellow wardier. horse drawn carriage delivered him to the grave. >> please accept this flag as a symbol of your own. >> warren's family attended the service with full military honors. >> over 24,000 marines were killed in action during world war ii. 72,000 am

what you guys do now is that you can find a thing better to do the truth of the matter is the marine corps has no business in relocating in alaska native village that's not what we do but what we do we do is train our brains and sailors of the other service personnel involved in expeditionary engineering projects and to do something so far away from home if you will up in the remote alaskan tundra in a difficult place to get to by boat by air every kind of way this is exactly the type of challenge training opportunity i think it's a good thing for the region it's a good thing for. the residents to really see the start of this. is going to take a while it's not happening fast enough but you know to have all the assets united states government involved in this project is pretty amazing. i'm glad it's here. is. the most favorable conditions i think. also allows. the community to gradually build. as the infrastructure comes to the water shelter and got the food 95 percent subsistence lifestyle if they didn't have access to a store they still let water they have cleaner water their water has be

mark served four years in the united states marine corps but the role he excelled at most was as a family man. he was a devoted husband to his wife, lacrioius, for five years. before his death last week, he and his wife was in the process of adopting five siblings. his loss leaves a hole in the putnam police community but his work lives on in the work and good deed he did in life. i want to extend my condoleanses to -- condolences to his family. we got the watch. madam speaker, i rise today to honor and remember gilchrist county sergeant ramirez and deputy lindsey who were both gunned down in the line of duty three years ago today. . on april 19, 2018, sergeant ramirez and deputy lindsey were eating lunch at a restaurant in trenton, florida, when a coward fired through a window and killed both officers in the line of duty. that man, whose name does not deserve to be mentioned, killed those two officers, consumed by a radical hate for law enforcement. that same hate for law enforcement that we saw then i continue to see today. now more than ever we need to publicly and boldly support our l

this is according to data provided to cnn friday by the marine corps. joining our conversation is retired army lieutenant general mark hartling. thanks for coming on. the military doesn't require the vaccine right now because the fda has not given it the formal approval. only emergency authorization. why do you think so many marines are declining it? >> first, pamela, it's always challenging to get an army general to comment on the marine corps but i'll talk about it across the board in the military. there are a lot of reasons why military personnel don't want to get the vaccine. i talked to a bunch of commanders and they said primarily it's personal choice based on an individual's medical history, military personnel's medical history, unease with the vaccine's approval process, african-american soldiers with anxiety based on knowing the history of the tuskegee experiment and wariness about the medical establishment, just wanting to wait and see how others react to the vaccine is a primary reason. and then reading or listening to those who are prone to

. >> congressman lamb, this is an excellent question and thank you for your service with the marine corps. i am with the navy. this is an incredibly serious topic. incredibly important. veterans of america absolutely condemns the acts that happened on january 67. that a is a serious matter and should not be taken lightly. as for your question specifically, we've taken all publicly available data for those involved in the events of january 6 and run there them through our data base and verified that we have no currents members that were involved. i heard you earlier asking about facial recognition. we don't have act test says to that technology as of yet but had we found any members that were a part of the events of january 6 we would immediately disbands them any of our national a activities throughout the country no matter where we're organized. >> you are any of the panelists, if you'd be happy to talk with me about this bid happy to. we have limited time. mr. chairman, i yield back, thank you. >> i have allowed for a second round of questioning so if we get through the next few members

we did have a marine corps man. >> former marine corpsman that went down there and actually pulled the victim out. i wish he'd hung out you deserves a lot of ashley jacobs. >> we'll be right back after the commercial break. >> for your money this morning. a winning 1.8 million dollar mega millions ticket was sold and san francisco's in a richmond district. the person with the ticket has a 180 days to claim the prize. the supermarket where the winning ticket was sold new model. y will get about $9,000. coming up the next hour. today is earth day and people will be gathering in san jose to help clean creek. we're live with more details here. plus, the biden administration has met its goal of the ministry, 200 million covid-19 vaccines before the president first 100 days in office. but more remains to be done. a live report from washington, dc is up next and fully vaccinated fans of the city in a special section at oracle park tonight for the giants game. we'll have more on that up next. >> from the bay. area's local news station. you're watching the kron 4 morning news that far. >> good

so they could say thinks we did have a marine corps man. >> former marine and that went down there and pulled the victim out. i wish he'd hung out you deserves a lot of ashley jacobs. >> well, quite a story. still to come tonight. if you're headed to the giants game tomorrow. >> there is a new special seating section. the giants are separating certain fans because of covid. plus, it is the first day back to school for a lot of south bay students will get reaction from them and why are police officers stopping more east bayside shows we have that and

marine corps lost returned 325 soldiers that day. he had just turned 17. he was killed. his dad of course was already serving on a ship in europe and nine months later he had his own misfortune. he was on a minesweeper and it did not do such a good job of sweeping a mine because it blew up his ship. and 58 members of that crew were killed. tsai survived but he was lost the use of his legs and he was wheelchair bound the rest of his life. he spent the rest of his life doing lot of charitable work and being on -- here and there. but what a story. >> it is a great story, and i was so taken by that fact that he turn such a tragic event in his own life. he became such a force as an advocate for polio, for cerebral palsy, for veterans, ultimately i believe in 1960 or 61, he was given his own day at fenway park. michael, you said he is buried just a walk or so from where you live? >> he is buried in a cemetery just on the side of west rocks roxbery, right next to his son. it's an amazing chapter in red-hot socks history. he has such tragedy, but he finds a way to give and i thi

marine corps lost 325 soldiers that day. he had just turned 17. and he was killed. and his dad, of course, was already serving. he was on a ship over in europe. and he -- nine months later he had his own misfortune. he was on a mine sweeper and the mine sweeper didn't do as good a job sweeping this particular mine i guess because it blew up the ship. and 58 members of that crew were killed. cy rosenthal survived but he was paraplegic. he lost the use of his legs and was wheelchair bound the rest of his life. he spent most of the rest of his life doing a lot of charitable work and being honored here and there. but what a story. >> it is a great story. and i was so taken by the fact that cy turned what was such a tragic event in its own right -- he became such a force as an advocate for polio victims, for cerebral palsy victims, for veterans' groups. ultimately i believe in 1960 or 1961 he was given his own day at fenway park. michael, you said he is buried a block or so from where you live? >> yes, he's buried in a cemetery outside of roxbury next to his son, buddy.

marine corps lost returned 25 soldiers that day. he had just turned 17. he was killed. his dad of course was already serving on a ship in europe and nine months later he had his ultimately, i believe the 1960 or 1961 he was given his own day at fenway park. michael, you said he is buried a block or so from where you live? >> he is buried in a cemetery just on the side of west rocks berry, right next to his son. it's an amazing chapter in red-sox history. he has such tragedy, but he finds a way to give and i think someone that is under recognized in our city and hopefully in the future we can recognize him for his great works. >> i think he may be a future candidate for the red sox hall of fame. we should certainly give that another look. one of the aspects that i would like to turn to, and addition to the involvement of the players, is that the red socks as an organization heard from a lot of g.i.s who were serving overseas. you tell a couple of great stories in your book, about a dozen or so marines i believe who are fighting, in the pacific, they reached out to tom. t

. >> reporter: jaffe, a world war ii marine corps vet, returned home from the war an enjoyed a long and successful career in marketing. his mantra, look forward, not backward. urging his fellow seniors to take faith in themselves. >> you're never too old to start something new and to succeed at it go with it, man. don't let anything stop you >> i'll take that to heart. that's "nightly news" for this wednesday thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪♪ you gave me every reason to feel like this ♪ ♪ now there's nothing you can do to change it ♪ ♪ you know me better than anyone else ♪ ♪ how far i'm willing to take it ♪ ♪ i never meant it more than i do now ♪ ♪ there's only one way i can say it ♪ ♪ more than forever, always, madly ♪ ♪ the deepest, unforgettable ♪ ♪ with all that i am, with my heart wide open ♪ ♪ for the rest of my life, i promise you ♪ ♪ and i'm gonna hate you as long and as much ♪ ♪ as i would've loved you ♪ ♪ and i would've loved you ♪ ♪ you gave one night to some nobody ♪ ♪ after

. >> reporter: jaffe, a world war ii marine corps vet, returned home and enjoyed a long and successfuleer in marketing. his mantra, look forward, not backward. urging his fellow seniors to take faith in themselves. >> you're never too old to start something new and to succeed at it go with it, man. don't let anything stop you >> i'll take that to heart. that's "nightly news" for this wednesday thank you for watching, everyone i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> right now at 6:00, the flood gates are about to open. anyone 50 or older will be added to the eligibility list. >> but can you actually get an appointment? maybe, if you know where to look and when. we'll show you. >>> also, a mix-up at the factory. the human error that is compromising millions of the johnson & johnson doses. how this could impact you. >>> and when will your child get a dose? the new results of a vaccine study for young teens. >>> the news at 6:00 starts now. >> we're just hours away from millions of californians being eligible to get a vaccine, millions more. but the pro

. >> reporter: at age 17, rachel regado enlisted in the marine corps.se. >> they had a warrior mentality and a fighting spirit that i resonated with so deeply. >> reporter: how important was serving to your identity? >> it was everything. >> reporter: in 2011, she deployed to afghanistan as a radio operator. but as the pentagon began to downsize troops, rachel says she was discharged after four years of service. what was the transition like for you back to civilian life once you got out? >> brutal. it was immediate loss very quickly of everything. i had lost my career, my marriage had suffered. >> reporter: rachel hit rock bottom. she was homeless, living out of her car. she then started bodybuilding, which gave her a boost. >> fitness was my outlet for everything. i started getting endorphins back. i had a sense of camaraderie again. i was in a gym among other people who were going towards the same goal. >> reporter: but it was something called fit ops that ultimately helped her find a new sense of purpose. >> it's not just coming in and sweating and y

>> yeah, shortly after leaving the marine corps, i joined the los angeles police department in april of 1993. yesterday was my 28-year anniversary. i did the police academy. after graduating the police academy, i was assigned to a patrol division and from there, i was recruited to work on undercover in the high schools to buy drugs as a-- >> los angeles high school? >> yes. >> and you were working undercover. >> yes. >> how long did you have that assignment? >> approximately six months. >> what did you do after that? >> after that i was assigned to another patrol division in south los angeles, and southwest division near the campus of university of southern california and i worked there until 1998. >> all right. and what were your duties, just generally, as a patrol officer in that particular area of los angeles? >> for the first two years of patrol, where was service primarily, during that time it was a pretty violent time in los angeles. i believe the-- on average in our division we averaged anywhere from 100 to 200 homicides a year so it was a pretty dangerous area. >> and after t

of this war feel a pullout is long overdue like kyle bibby. >> i'm proud to have served in the marine corps>> reporter: 9/11 motivated him to serve as a marine. >> the taliban were definitely responsible for a lot of terrible atrocities, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the united states has, you know, a 20-year commitment towards fighting there. >> it's a shortsighted decision but i fully understand that the american people have war fatigue. >> reporter: steve brown has been a lead sponsor of a rotary club school in jalalabad, afghanistan, a school i visited in 2009. it has since graduated thousands of girls and boys, but brown says the u.s. withdrawal is putting that in jeopardy. >> i am hopeful but not optimistic about the programs going forward. >> reporter: a concern shared an long enough. i don't think te wants the legacy to be sacrifice begets more sacrifice. we can't use the people who have died or been wounded as justification to keep going on forever. >> let's take all of this to secretary antony blinken. thanks for being with us, mr. secretary. you've heard the reaction fro

marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence that the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they were big boys pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with a changing world changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and a political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth in russia is. so it's been a week of angry unrest in the u.s. state of minnesota and

so, shortly after leaving the marine corps i joined the los angeles police department in april of 1993. yesterday was my 28th anniversary. after graduating the police academy, i was assigned to a control division and from there i was recruited to work on the cover in the high schools. >> the los angeles high schools. you were working as an undercover. how long did you have that assignment? >> approximately six a months. >> after that, i was assigned to anotherd division in south los angeles, southwest division near the campus of southern california and i worked there until 1998. >> what were your duties as a patrol officer in that area of los angeles? >> for the first two years of patrol when during that time i was on average anywhere from 100 to 200 homicides a year. so, it was a pretty dangerous area. >> and you held that position for how many years? >> for the patrols i was there for two years and then recruited to work at the same division it was primarily gang intelligence and our assignment was to gather intelligence and make arrests and handle any calls of service that were spec