Rocky Darger on the left.
I was teaching a USMC Recon training at Coronado in California. I believe this was in 1997. Rocky worked for Yamaha Motors Corporation, and I enjoyed their sponsorship for these training programs with the Waverunners. We had great surf and good Marines to work with.
Rocky was a former USMC Helicopter pilot in Vietnam. I love this photo because the imagery of both of these 'Marines' has that 'look'. It never leaves you...I didn't know it at the time that Rocky was a Marine. I just found this box of slides and began going through them, posting them, there are about 1500 plus images from 3 years of training Marines at the Amphib base.
A few links to Rocky:
www.popasmoke.com/kia/incidents.php?incident_ id=179
www.flyarmy.org/incident/68081999KIA.HTM
Rocky's Accounts:
The Soldier's Story: Vietnam in their own words by Ron Steinman
The Greatest US Marine Corps Stories every Told: Unforgetable stories by Lain C. Martin, Joseph H. Alexander
Shawn Alladio working the Mavericks Surf Contest 2010
Mavericks Water Patrol
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