HAWAII MARINE Voluntary Payment for Delivery to MCAS Housing/SI Per Four-Week Period
HAWAII MARINE Voluntary payment for delivery to MCAS housing/SI per four-week period. _X - S I''N ' / ' IAr Vt 1 t'.1 t 1N s...Yk, Cr VIV' QV.", UM" c.01410,1411W.,1,,,, AS"S tLnM. p.Mt. ititet;D IS ACT A rose decorates the plaque placed in the lobby of the newly dedicated Smedley Hall. BEQ dedicated in hero's name Story and photos a one-man assault on an enemy Marine Barracks Hawaii; and According to Russel, Smedley by Sgt. Chuck Jenks machine gun position. Although Russel E. Smedley, brother of the was the kind of guy who wouldn't MARINE BARRACKS Hawaii, he managed to destroy the Medal of Honor recipient. have necessarily thought he Pearl Harbor - He was 17 years machine gun nest, he was hit in "We were very close," said warranted the honor of having a Russell E. Smedley pauses after the unveiling of his brother's old in 1967 when he led his six- the chest and was mortally Russel, a native of Albany, Ga. barracks named after him. "I portrait that hangs in the lobby of the newly dedicated Smedley man squad against an enemy wounded. For his heroic actions, "He was 17 and I was 14. We used guess that was just Larry," Hall. force of Viet Cong and North Smedley was posthumously to get into all kinds of trouble. Russel said. "I know our family is Vietnamese army regulars awarded the Medal of Honor. You know, the kind of trouble kids more proud of him every day." carrying 122mm rocket launchers get into," he said.
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