41 years in the Marines

I didn’t know it was possible, but Col. Wayne Steele has served in the Marine Corps for 41 years. Now 61 years old, he is deployed to Afghanistan. He’s been a gunnery sergeant and a CWO5 and, for the last 30 years, an officer. One of his sons will retire from the Army before he retires from the Marines.

It reminds me of the time I saw an old soldier wearing an Americal combat patch in Baghdad. But he had broken time.