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Cole E. Barnhart II is continuing his family’s attitude of Marine Corps service.
["400px"]He accelerating in 2015 from South Hagerstown High School, breadth he played football, ran calm clue and was a standout lacrosse player.
After enrolling at Frederick (Md.) Community College, breadth he played lacrosse, he absitively to put his apprenticeship on authority to admit in the Marine Corps.
On Aug. 18, Cole appear to Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C. Afterwards 13 weeks of training, he accelerating from recruit training Nov. 9.
["400px"]New Marines are accustomed 10 canicule of leave afore advertisement to Marine Action Training in North Carolina. Once that is complete, Cole will address for occupational-specialty training in Virginia and again address to the Fleet Marine Force.
Cole’s father, Cole E. Barnhart, accelerating from South Hagerstown High School in 1991, and afterwards enlisting, appear to Parris Island in February 1992. Cole Sr. completed the aforementioned training, but was assigned as an aerodynamics abutment accessories technician. He was assigned to assorted units until his advance to accreditation officer.
Upon alternative to accreditation officer, Cole’s ancestor appear to administrator training in nuclear biological actinic warfare aegis at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. He served in abounding units, best conspicuously commutual a action bout in abutment of Operation Iraqi Freedom 9.2.
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Cole Sr. retired from the Marine Corps Reserve in December 2015 as a arch accreditation administrator three.
The man who started the bequest was Clyde E. Barnhart, who accelerating from South Hagerstown High School in 1968. Clyde enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1968, and accelerating March 4, 1969. He completed the School of Infantry in North Carolina and appear to avant-garde infantry training and completed adaptation training in California afore advertisement to Vietnam.
Clyde was assigned to 3rd Marine Division, I Corps, 3rd Marine Amphibious Force, Combined Action Army in the breadth of Chu Lai. He was assigned to a modern-day civilian diplomacy platoon, breadth he lived in the apple of Dung Li.
["400px"]Clyde was advantageously absolved as a corporal.
“Becoming a Marine has to be a claimed decision, not because your ancestor or grandfathering did it,” Cole Sr. said in an emailed statement. “You accept to appetite to be a Marine aloft all abroad because recruit training will edger you out if you are there for the amiss reasons. Cole’s grandfathering and I are actual appreciative of his accommodation to become a Marine, but are artlessly appreciative that he absitively to serve. There is a continued history of aggressive account in our family, but to become a third-generation Marine creates a appropriate band amid us.”
On Nov. 11, Pvt. 1st Class Barnhart abounding the Marine Corps 242nd Birthday Ball actuality acclaimed by the Marine Corps League, Martinsburg (W.Va.) Detachment, and was accustomed as the youngest Marine in attendance. All three ancestors of Barnhart Marines attended.
["400px"]“As I absolved bench in my dress blues, my youngest brother said, ‘I appetite to be a Marine aloof like you,” Cole II wrote in an email. “I was actual appreciative and I apperceive I will not be the alone third-generation Marine in our family. I accept addition brother, Cody, who is at the Virginia Aggressive Institute who aspires to be a Marine. I am appreciative of my brothers and apperceive they will abide the legacy.
“I became a Marine because of my father. He is the best baton I accept anytime met. He leads my ancestors not aloof as a Marine, a ancestor and husband, but additionally as a airy leader. To me, he is the apotheosis of what it is to be a Marine, so one day, I aspire to be as acceptable of a baton and Marine as he is. Semper Fidelis!”
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