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Merry Christmas, Your Officer of the Day is Gen. Mattis

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 Posted in The SandGram v1.0 | 2 Comments »

  UPDATE:  Jeff Schogol from Stars and Stripes confirmed this happened here... http://www.stripes.com/blogs/the-rumor-doctor/the-rumor-doctor-1.104348/did-gen-mattis-pull-duty-on-christmas-so-a-marine-could-be-with-his-family-1.134995 The following was provided by John Wear:  The story below was told by Dr. Albert C. Pierce, the Director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at The ...