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The Best Sales Person @ HHGregg Clearwater FL.

I would like to say thank you to Bob Ervin. This past weekend, Bob went above and beyond his sales duties to help this veteran.  I had bought a dishwasher from HHgregg, when I got home. After opening the box, the dishwasher was damaged. I was on fire, because I have been waiting for a dishwasher for about a month. I then went  back to HHgregg to  speaking with the manager. The manager told me there was no more in stock and I had to wait another week.
                                                                                   

 New Damaged Dishwasher

Bob was standing close and herd the conversation. He also saw my USMC tattoo and asked if I was a US Marine. I said, "Yes sir, Ooh- Rah." Bob then stepped in to help.  He told the manager that there was a way to solve my problem. Bob went in the back to look for another model dishwasher that was color black. He found a couple  came back out on the floor and explained and showed me the different models.  We chose a black Whirlpool that was really nice.  Bob went to the store manager and explained the situation. Shortly after, we walked out vary happy with a better dishwasher.  I never had a sales person go out of there way to help a veteran. Bob Ervin is an out standing sales rep.
So if your are a veteran, and shopping at HHGregg in Clearwater FL. Make sure that you ask for Bob Ervin, Appliance Specialist.
Thank you.

U.S.M.C.
AAron S....                                                                      

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Jesse Steed, A Father, A Hero, A US Marine...RIP. Devil Dog

One of ours. A US marine, Jesse was in Bravo 1/4 1st Plt. Jesse served between 1996 and 2000, Steed served in the United State Marine Corps 

Jesse Steed, 36, was one of the oldest and most experienced members of the crew and because of that, he has served as captain of the Granite Mountain Hotshots for the last two years. He started working as a Hotshot in 2002 and moved to the Granite Mountain Hotshots around that same time. Jesse Steed's former colleagues remember him as a joker. "He was a character. If you look at all the old photos of him, he was doing things to make people laugh," said Cooper Carr, who worked with Steed in the Hotshots from 2001 to 2003. "He was good at impressions, and he sang songs; he was just great for morale. He'd just talk in a funny voice and have us all in stiches," Carr said. "And he was strong as an ox." Carr remembers that Steed once spent the better part of an hour positioning a water bottle just right for a photo so that it would look like Yosemite falls was cascading into it. Steed was also remembered for his dedication to fighting wildfires. "He did it for a long, long time. I think he started in 2001, when he got out of the Marines. A job like the Hotshots is hard, hard work, and you don't stay in it if you don't love it," Carr said. Steed was no stranger to bravery, or danger. Between 1996 and 2000, Steed served in the United State Marine Corps before returning home and becoming a firefighter.. Renton, Wash., police officer Cassidy Steed said his brother "always put his life on the line for people who he knew he would never meet." Steed leaves behind a wife, Desiree, and two children. His two kids are Caden, 4 and Cambria, 3.

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Camp Pendleton, Demo Range

U.S Marines holding unbrella for Obama

Barack Obama asked nearby marines to hold out umbrellas during a press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Obama is apperentlaey is too lazy or has a lac of respect when it comes to the United states Marine Corps. Why  are the U.S. Marines holding the umbrella and not the Secret Service?

The rain started pouring down when Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Obama kindly states, “I am going to go ahead and ask folks, why don’t we get a couple of Marines -- they’re going to look good next to us,” Obama joked. “I’ve got a change of suits, but I don’t know about our prime minister.”
"You guys I'm sorry about," Obama said to the press.
Capt. Greg Wolf. He explained that it's "extremely rare" to see marines in uniform holding umbrellas, as they're usually not permitted to do so -- unless their commander-in-chief asks them.

USMC Issued Wife Barcode Label

North Korea Perpares for War

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told front-line troops the military is ready for “all-out war” against its enemies as the hermit nation nullified its nonaggression patch with the South.
The North also closed liaison channels with South Korea and the United States.
China, meanwhile, is appealing for calm and urging both sides to avoid escalating the already-tense situation in the Korean peninsula.
China’s appeal comes after the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved tougher sanctions on North Korea for a forbidden nuclear test, hours after the totalitarian state threatened a preemptive atomic strike on the U.S. and other “aggressors.”
The UN body Thursday voted 15-0, with no debate, to adopt a resolution drafted by the U.S. and China in the aftermath of the Feb. 12 underground blast.
“Our warnings were not heeded,” said Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who holds the council’s rotating presidency. “Now the choice is for the DPRK to make,” he said, referring to the country by its official title, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “Now other interested parties must behave responsibly,” he added.
The new sanctions target “illicit activity” by North Korean diplomats, bulk transfers of cash, and banks and companies funnelling funds or materials to support the country’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. Previous measures have failed to deter the impoverished regime from pursuing its atomic weapon ambitions.
“An extremely dangerous situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula where a nuclear war may break out right now,” the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, North Korea’s propaganda arm, said in a KCNA statement.
Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, yesterday said that if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, the Security Council would “take further significant measures.”
The tightened sanctions may lead to provocation from North Korea, Bank of Korea senior deputy governor Park Won Shik said at an emergency meeting in Seoul today.

The Chinese are also clearly worried that a nuclear-armed North Korea could provoke an incident that would send millions of people flooding across its 1400-kilometre border, according to Orville Schell, director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York.
“You don’t want to draw too much from it, but it suggests this new leadership wants to do exactly what Xi Jinping said it did want to do: establish a new and better relationship with the U.S.,” he added.
The resolution includes bans on equipment used to make chemical and nuclear weapons, front companies for the country’s weapons programs and importation of yachts, racing cars and jewelry for the regime’s elite. It also obliges UN member-states to stop any North Korean ships or planes suspected of carrying supplies for weapons programs.

The White House says the U.S. is fully capable of defending itself after a North Korean ballistic missile attack.
White House spokesman Jay Carney was responding to the North’s vow to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the U.S. That threat came in retaliation for tough new U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test.
Carney says the sanctions further isolate North Korea and show its leaders what will happen if they defy the international community. He says the breadth and severity of the sanctions show the world takes seriously the threat of North Korea’s nuclear program.
North Korea boasts of nuclear bombs but isn’t thought to have the ability to produce a warhead that could be used on a missile capable of reaching the U.S.
The UN Security Council voted unanimously Thursday for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, and a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States.
The sanctions drafted by North Korea’s closest ally, China, and the United States send a powerful message that the international community condemns Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and nuclear tests – and repeated violations of Security Council resolutions.
“Adoption of the resolution itself is not enough,” China’s UN Ambassador Li Baodong said. “We want to see full implementation of the resolution.” Li also urged calm and a resumption of the stalled six-party talks aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
“The top priority now is to defuse the tensions, bring down heat … bring the situation back on the track of diplomacy, on negotiations,” Li said.
Immediately before the vote, an unidentified spokesman for Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry said the North will exercise its right for “a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors” because Washington is “set to light a fuse for a nuclear war.”
The statement was carried by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency, which issued no immediate comment after the Security Council vote.