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Marines of the Day: Aaron and Diana Mankin
Stix Blog ver 4.0 —
... H&S Company Marines are wearing two and three hats already.”
Headquarters companies companies traditionally concentrate on administrative and logistical support. But war has caused the Marines to invoke one of their oldest mottoes: “Every Marine a rifleman.” Little did Cpl. Kavanek know how severely the qualities that got her through Marine boot camp were about to be tested.
The scene shifts. Miles away, Corporal Kavanek’s boyfriend is clearing insurgents from an Iraqi village:
We were clearing ...
A USMC love story
Stop The ACLU —
... Posted on November 3, 2009 Get your tissue boxes ready for this story . It’s one of the most touching love stories I’ve ever heard, and it features two Marines. Corporal Aaron Mankin was dating then Lance Corporal Diana Kavanek. Both had been deployed to Iraq. While Corporal Mankin was deployed, he was injured: We were clearing houses and villages and pinching off the insurgency coming into Iraq from Syria when we rolled over an IED and our vehicle exploded literally 10 feet into the air. More fire came at us, and we thought we were under ambush, but it was our own munitions ...
