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McClintic Commander Michael Davidson Revenue Director bond of service, Chris Verigan Engagement Director Marie Woods Publishing and Media Design Director Chris Carlson blood and love Publishing and Media Design Manager Monte Dauphin BY JAMES BOLINGER, Japan Area Manager STARS AND STRIPES Published: Dec. 19, 2018 Kentaro Shimura Production Manager Rie Miyoshi MARINE CORPS AIR STATION Engagement Manager IWAKUNI — Lyle Gilbert didn’t Ian Waddick consider a military career until Publishing and Media Design Editor he felt the pull of patriotism after Publishing and Media Design Writers scores of U.S. troops were killed ChiHon Kim Shoji Kudaka and injured in the 1986 La Belle Takahiro Takiguchi discothèque bombing in West Layout Designers Berlin. Ayako Kamio Today, he’s a Marine Corps Marine Maj. Lyle Gilbert, bottom right, and his wife Johanna, bottom left, have four children serving on active duty in the U.S. Yukiyo Oda military. Three are in the Marine Corps and one is in the Air Force. Courtesy of The Gilbert Family Yuko Okazaki major whose example has led Kayoko Shimoda four of his children into military company commander at Marine Maurice Murrain, 19, graduat- camera, and today would be con- Multimedia Consultants service – three as fellow Marines. Max Genao Doug Johnson Corps Recruit Depot Parris Is- ed Air Force basic training Sept. sidered a communication strate- Jason Lee Hans Simpson “For me there was no other land, S.C. She is a communica- 28. gy Marine like his son and grand- Chae Pang Yi Gianni Youn alternative than to join the Ma- tion strategy officer by trade, And Tyler Gilbert, 18, who Robert Zuckerman daughters. rines. I never visited another just like her father. Marines in graduated recruit training Nov. Graphic Designers recruiter,” said Gil- Kenichi Ogasawara Yosuke Tsuji that field serve as 30, was a member of the same re- Like dominos bert, the director EXCLUSIVE NEWS FROM: military journal- cruit company and battalion his Rhodes was the first of her Sales Support Kazumi Hasegawa Hiromi Isa of communication ists, broadcasters, father graduated from 32 years siblings to sign on the dotted line, Ichiro Katayanagi Yoko Noro strategy at MCAS photographers and ago. He is now headed to Camp in 2012, and said she joined be- Yoichi Okazaki Yusuke Sato Chae Yon Son Saori Tamanaha Iwakuni, alluding public relations Lejeune, N.C., where he will at- cause of the examples set by her to the toughness, specialists. tend combat engineer school. parents. Her mother and biologi- For feedback and inquiries, image and ethos embodied by the Rhodes’ younger sister, Ma- The Gilberts trace their Ma- cal father were both in the Army, contact [email protected] Corps. rine Sgt. Jordan Gilbert, 25, is rine Corps heritage to Lyle’s fa- and she grew up around To place an ad, call DSN 227-7370 His eldest daughter, Marine also in communication strategy ther, Dominic, who served in the the Marine Corps and stripesjapan.com/contact Capt. Sarah Rhodes, 29, is a and stationed on Okinawa. 1950s. He also worked behind a participated in the Junior JANUARY 11 − JANUARY 17, 2019 A STARS AND STRIPES COMMUNITY PUBLICATION STRIPES JAPAN 3 Reserve Officer Training [Two of] my sisters had already Amanda Segobiano, 27, lives Corps while attending high joined, and I really wanted to in California, holds a degree in school on Okinawa. make my parents proud. I think sociology and plans to work as a “I loved everything about the the military is the best way to do “As a mom, I counselor for formerly incarcer- uniform,” Rhodes said. “That that.” ated adults. feeling of pride started me on couldn’t be more the path to joining the Marine Family within a family proud, and our What the future holds Corps.” Lyle Gilbert met his wife Jo- While many of the Gilberts’ Jordan Gilbert was next in hanna, then a specialist and fi- family photos children may be on active duty April 2013. She was recently se- nance technician in the Army, are amazing!” for the next several years, none is lected for promotion to staff ser- while training to become a Ma- committed to making the service geant and will sew on her new rine broadcaster at the Defense – Johanna Gilbert a career like their father. rocker next year. Information School at Fort Ben- Rhodes will hit her six-year “I got super motivated when jamin Harrison, Ind. Together, mark in December. She said she my older sister graduated” from the couple has raised a tight-knit wants to see what her next sta- Officer Candidate School, Jor- family with an emphasis on ser- Now-Sgt. Jordan Gilbert, right, is congratulated by her older sister, now-Marine tion holds before she commits to dan said. “The whole plane ride vice. Currently, Johanna is a ci- Capt. Sarah Rhodes, after completing Marine Corps recruit training in 2013. the long-term. back, I asked my dad a bunch of vilian nurse and lives in North Courtesy of The Gilbert Family Lyle Gilbert is also at a cross- different questions, and the next Carolina. roads. January will mark his month I signed up.” “I think we built it together, “We grew up together,” their own service, Lyle Gilbert 33rd year in the Marine Corps. The Gilberts’ sons graduated although the greater balance was Rhodes said. “And we go through said he didn’t push his children Though retirement has long been from MCAS Iwakuni’s Matthew with my wife,” Lyle Gilbert said. it in the Marine Corps together as to join the military. an option, he was notified of his C. Perry High School together “She has always been very nur- well. We have an extra bond that Instead, he said, the focus selection to lieutenant colonel earlier this year, and were best turing, very loving, very open. not everyone has.” was on serving others and doing the day before Tyler completed friends growing up. So much so, She always wanted to have a things the right way. recruit training. With his tour at that the Gilberts adopted then- place where the friends come, Tradition of service “If you are going to do some- MCAS Iwakuni coming to an end 12-year-old Murrain in 2012 be- not a place our kids wanted to Lyle said he understands that thing, do it 100 percent,” said next year, he said all options are fore moving to Okinawa. stay away from.” most of his children will likely be Tyler Gilbert, explaining one of on the table. Murrain said he wasn’t set on Their children remember deployed – potentially to combat his father’s philosophies. “Even “The first thing we advise joining the Air Force until his ju- growing up around young Ma- zones. if it’s a mostly meaningless task, our children, with anything in nior year of high school. Today, he rines from their father’s work “The only thing needed for do it and do it right. Do it the way life, is to pray about it,” his wife is attending technical school for who would join the family for evil to prevail is for good and ca- it is supposed to be done, not just said. “Then do your homework. aircraft structural maintenance holiday parties and other gather- pable men and women to stand to get it over with.” Know what you’re getting into at Pensacola Naval Air Station, ings. idly by and do nothing. And I tell Two Gilbert children chose and make sure it’s something you Fla. He hopes to be stationed at “On Christmas, these corpo- [my children] that,” he said. “If paths outside the military. Emily want and can to do. The military Okinawa’s Kadena Air Base after rals and lance corporals would not you, then who? Serving your Gilbert, 20, is teaching English brings discipline, sacrifice and graduation. be watching movies in the liv- country, protecting your fellow at a preschool in Iwakuni while commitment. They understood Before leaving home for re- ing room,” Jordan Gilbert said. man and your family, putting it seeking a degree in elementary this, and it’s not a decision they cruit training, his brother, Tyler, “Even when dad was deployed, all on the line for that, it’s why we education. have taken lightly.” said being a Marine has always my mom would always have his are all here.” “I had made it very apparent “As a mom, I couldn’t be more been his dream. Marines over.” He said he was very proud that I wasn’t going to join the mil- proud,” she added. “And our fam- “Growing up around the Ma- That bond carries over even when he heard that Rhodes had itary,” she said. “It’s their thing.