my name is jason carrierei had the pleasure and priveledge to meet chris we met at meps when we inlisted on april 27 2005 we waited on the van to show up and rode to the island togather and we talked and told eachother what we wanted to do in the corps and what our jobs were gunna be and we shared my ipod for the whole ride i still remember the song we listened to when we finally got to the entrance of the island its a 2 mile straight road right in the heart of parris island the drill instructor scared me so badly with his rage at the van door that i looked at chris and we had the same look in our eyes and i leand over real quick and locked the door! the instructor was so huge he ripped the door open and screamed at us and told us to get off of his van and welcomed us in to his marine corps and told us to get on his yellow foot prints and that started our jurney through the machine... when we made it to the barber and chris just went with getting his head shaved and i had sholder length hair and i pulled the polly shore quote just take a little bit off the sides so they gave me a reverse mohawk and then proceeded to shave my head and then we went to forming and got divvy up in to two different plts. and trained for 13 weeks togather and we graduated on july 22 2005 we met up after graduation and talked and then we went out seperate ways to recruters assistance till augest 16 when we reported in to camp giger and reported to camp guard and i found him in the back of the barracks with a guy named john hermann who we all three with a few others josh wheeler and craig bullinger the four of us were placed in to the school of infantry and were assigned to alpha co on augest 30 2005 we started training and were prepaired to be placed in to our unit at camp pendleton ca in 1/1 and by mos break down my self and josh wheeler were pulled out of training and chris and john hermann contenued on to graduation and headed to there unit in california and me and josh were left behined and discharged in october... i followed chris and john through john calling me all the time letting me know what was going on him and chris were in the same unit and plt they went out on patrol alot and when chris was taken form us all i had a good friend andrew flynn called me and told me what happened and that day i went to the tattoo parlor and had his name tape tattooed on my stomach so his name will live on i just wanted to come on the forum and share my story christopher n white the way i knew him i miss u a lot bro and well meet up some day marine take care of your self .... my condolences to the white family and id love to meet yall someday and i wish to visit his resting place someday real soon i now live in charlotte nc
SFC Gutierrez, I went to Omaha Yesterday to escort the earthly Remains of SPC Eddie Wood to his final resting place. 18 year old Scout KIA Afghanistan. Please watch over him for his family. I Know he's in a good NCO's hands now.
I barely knew you but i know you are a great person! you were so very pationate of serving your country and you were nice to everyone you met in life! you are an amazing person and you will be missed for ever! it will never be bye but see you later
you were and always will nb an amazing person. You will be in my heart forever and never forgotten. Not a day goes by when your not thought of. May you rest in peace our gaurdian angel