Peggy Green Recovery Fund USMC
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In 1990, Peggy Green’s son, LCpl. Troy Gregory was serving in the United States Marine Corps Reserve with Hotel Battery, 3rd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, while also attending Virginia Union University. On Thanksgiving morning, Troy, along with the other Marines of Hotel Battery, received the call that the unit was being activated for combat missions in the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation, what would later be known as Operation Desert Storm.
On February 25, 1991, LCpl. Gregory was on a patrol when he stepped on an Iraqi land mine and was mortally wounded. He died the next day aboard a Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort. LCpl. Gregory was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal and Combat Action Ribbon. Peggy Green became a Gold Star Mother, an honor used to recognize the mothers of those who have lost their lives in combat while serving our nation.
LCpl. Gregory is the only Marine in recent wars who has served, fought and died, without ever having attended a formal Military Occupational Specialty School (MOS School). LCpl. Gregory entered the Marine Corps under a Reserve contract to attend Basic Training during one summer and his MOS School the following summer, drilling with his Reserve unit in the interim. However, LCpl. Gregory was selected for Officer Candidate School, and rather than attending Artillery Fire Direction Control Man School in Ft. Sill, Okla., he was at Quantico, Va. for the first half of Marine OCS. He would have completed OCS upon his graduation from Virginia Union University. He never trained for his designated MOS.
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When Hotel Battery was activated, L/Cpl. Gregory was offered a chance to opt out, since he was technically not qualified and he was obligated to finish OCS, not be deployed. LCpl. Gregory chose to fight as the Basically Trained Marine that he was, not as a FDC Marine. This decision cost him his life.
L/Cpl. Troy Gregory upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the Naval Service by his willingness to deploy and fight when he had two reasons to stay home. His death is an example for all Marines and indeed, all Americans.
Since returning from the war, the Marines of Hotel Battery have remembered their fallen comrade, but none felt the loss as much as Ms. Green. She has been the victim of a cruel house fire and suffers from a debilitating back injury and is legally blind from glaucoma. Please help us raise money so she can repair her home and get some much needed medical care.
On February 25, 1991, LCpl. Gregory was on a patrol when he stepped on an Iraqi land mine and was mortally wounded. He died the next day aboard a Navy hospital ship, the USNS Comfort. LCpl. Gregory was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal and Combat Action Ribbon. Peggy Green became a Gold Star Mother, an honor used to recognize the mothers of those who have lost their lives in combat while serving our nation.
LCpl. Gregory is the only Marine in recent wars who has served, fought and died, without ever having attended a formal Military Occupational Specialty School (MOS School). LCpl. Gregory entered the Marine Corps under a Reserve contract to attend Basic Training during one summer and his MOS School the following summer, drilling with his Reserve unit in the interim. However, LCpl. Gregory was selected for Officer Candidate School, and rather than attending Artillery Fire Direction Control Man School in Ft. Sill, Okla., he was at Quantico, Va. for the first half of Marine OCS. He would have completed OCS upon his graduation from Virginia Union University. He never trained for his designated MOS.
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When Hotel Battery was activated, L/Cpl. Gregory was offered a chance to opt out, since he was technically not qualified and he was obligated to finish OCS, not be deployed. LCpl. Gregory chose to fight as the Basically Trained Marine that he was, not as a FDC Marine. This decision cost him his life.
L/Cpl. Troy Gregory upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the Naval Service by his willingness to deploy and fight when he had two reasons to stay home. His death is an example for all Marines and indeed, all Americans.
Since returning from the war, the Marines of Hotel Battery have remembered their fallen comrade, but none felt the loss as much as Ms. Green. She has been the victim of a cruel house fire and suffers from a debilitating back injury and is legally blind from glaucoma. Please help us raise money so she can repair her home and get some much needed medical care.
Organizer
Richard Bordelon
Organizer
Bon Air, VA
