Almost forgot one very special highlight.

We had dinner at the Officer's Club at the MCAS (Marine Corp. Air Station) Beaufort, SC. The bar was re-named the Santini Bar after it appeared in the movie "The Great Santini" with Robert Duvall.

The back room holds the treasure. The back wall has images of three famous anti-Americans on it. One looked like Saddam or may have been an Ayatollah, one looked like a Chinese or korean leader, and the one in the center was OBL.

You hurl your empty beer bottle as hard as you can at your chosen target. If the bottle does not break you lose serious cred. When it does a cheer goes up.

Needless to say, the wall is reinforced with extra bricks for OBL from the force of so many hits.

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. The Marines don't have that problem."

President Reagan