Search
For Old Buddies--Information--Questions To Forums, etc.
(Formerly
listed as Find Old Buddies on MainPage)
MISSION:
MARINES REUNITED!
MailCall
USMC/Forums, etc. is intended as an extensive listing of numerous
Message
Boards and related search/information sites that may assist you in
searching
for the Marine you are looking for.
(12/16/99)
This MailCall USMC website has been online for nearly two years now.
I
continue to receive daily e-mails from those requesting search information
who have clearly not bothered to first read this page! Again, I do NOT
conduct searches for others! The information listed here is soley for those
who are willing to do the work for themselves; I have no "secrets" as to
finding people--all I know is already on this page! If you don't want to
do the work yourself, there are always those 1-800 numbers who advertise
on the popular media as well as the WWW. I know nothing of them except
they want bucks. Presumably, they also need a minimun of information to
start with, e.g. social security #, date of birth, name, etc.--something
most seem to be in the dark about, judging from the e-mail I receive.
General
Suggestions:
1.
For information regarding locating/contacting active duty, retired, discharged
Marines, service records requests, etc, please go to the HQMC
Association's
5.
Be thorough and don't give up; you will be successful.
6.
I neither conduct searches for others nor do I maintain personnel listings,
don't ask!; I merely
provide
the means for you to search for yourself. The presence of these hyperlinks
here
does
not constitute my personal endorsement of any site.
7.
If you know of a site that you think should be listed here, or if you wish
to list your
own
Message Board here, please notify me.
8.
I have made no attempt to categorize this listing of links
(I
find that categorization itself tends to exclude) therefore, the link that
proves
most
useful to you may appear anywhere on this listing.
9.
Many hours of work and thought have gone into the pages linked
here; if these pages have been useful to you please acknowledge by signing
the various GuestBooks
on
each site and/or e-mail the particular webmaster.
A
forum exclusively for old time Marines, as indicated by the title. All
old timers are
invited
to participate . Entries are maintained for 60 days before deletion; please
re-post
if desired.
Inside
The Web (Click
Here).Free Message Boards!The
following is a partial-listing of Marine-related Message Boards and allied
information available on the Internet.
Note:
The appearance here of the following hyperlinks does not constituteendorsement
by Gunny G's WebSite.
Remember!
There
is no ONE centralized Message Board/Locator system on the Internet, official
or otherwise, notwithstanding what some may
think
or say; therefore, you may wish to consider posting on several boards below
so as to maximize your chances of the intended party finding your message.
Amid
speculation that old time Marines are NOT computer friendly, thus the reason
so few old timers are involved on the Net, the following information is
offered. Did you know that you can buy an inexpensive WebTV (for instance)
and get on the Internet? And, you can get a free webpage at, e.g., The
Express Page, and put up your own Marine WebSite in just minutes--no
experience needed! Anybody can do it--I did!
This
is an extension/satellite site of Gunny G's Marines WebSites
By
Dick Gaines GySgt USMC Ret.
Postal
0161 (1952-72)
Your
best bet?
Post
on several of the boards above. Better still, get your own board on your
website
(see
above) and then link it here. In any case, link this Site to yours please.
Who
Uses Marine Message Boards?
From
my own observation, the following are among those making use of these boards:
Just
as we might expect, regular Marines looking for that old beer-drinking
buddy, ranging from just a short while ago to pre-WWII days. Also, those
seeking former boy/girl friends; ex-spouses; long lost relatives; Marines
searching for that known/unknown buddy or Corpsman who saved his bacon
in WWII, Korea or 'Nam; friends and relatives on behalf of someone near
death wishing to find old friends; those relatives and friends surviving
the death of a Marine and seeking his old comrades; sons/daughters who
never knew their Marine parent and wishing to find someone who did, etc.
That's
who uses these boards, and I suspect, many, many more.That's why just
one "hit" makes it worthwhile!
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