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December 22nd, 2010, 03:41 PM
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#1 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 123
| Guide Book
I would like to find a Guide Book from the early 60s. Does anyone know where I could find one?
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December 22nd, 2010, 04:11 PM
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#2 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UPSTATE N.Y.
Posts: 56
|  Guide book
PETE,
GO TO EBAY,type in USMC guide book 1960s , in the search,I 've seen them
once in awhile.YOUR DI TOLD YOU TO HOLD ON TO THEM!!!!!!!!!
SEMPR FI
TOM
USMC 64-68
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December 22nd, 2010, 04:19 PM
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#3 | | Grunt
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 123
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Thanks for the reply. I have tried E-Bay with no luck so far. Yes I remeber him telling me that. Unfortunatly I lost it and other books in a move. I have my son's from the 90s.
I remeber reading The Guide Book for Marines in grade school. It was in the library 
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December 22nd, 2010, 08:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Northern Wisconsin
Posts: 202
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Pete:
The Amherst Depot has them from 1947-2006. There not cheap.
Siefly 
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December 24th, 2010, 09:14 AM
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#5 | | SGT of Marines
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Trappe, Maryland
Posts: 332
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Thanks siefly, I just ordered two, one for me from 1964 and one for my 88 year old golf buddy who served from December 1942 to the end of the war.
Yep, he still plays golf every week, weather permitting.
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December 26th, 2010, 12:56 PM
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#6 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
|  A little known fact !
I threw mine away , as it seemed outdated the day I got it ! 
I like to look at it today !
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January 1st, 2011, 01:55 PM
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#7 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NC
Posts: 46
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still have mine issued in boot 1981, 
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March 29th, 2011, 12:40 PM
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#8 | | Snappin In
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Maryland
Posts: 35
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Still have mine plus a like new 1941 Guidebook for Marines that I found in a dumpster in Beaufort SC. I never digged far but I did find some neat old stuff.
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March 31st, 2011, 03:45 PM
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#9 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Land of the big PX
Posts: 843
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I still have mine but the important book to have kept is the fmfm-6-5. I have my dad's too from 1965. Infantry tactics. explained real simple, marine like.
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March 31st, 2011, 07:31 PM
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#10 | | Rifleman
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA
Posts: 53
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Been looking for a replacement Guidebook from my era ('65 to '69).
My original was in my extra seabag, which got lost (no shit) while in storage, when I went to Nam the second time. When it was found and returned after I was discharged, the bottom was torn, and my Guidebook was gone, along with other things.
I'll give the suggestions here a try.
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September 18th, 2011, 03:38 AM
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#11 | | Grunt
Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Auburn, WA
Posts: 80
| Saving it for my boy
I still have mine from 1992. It, my BST, and other gear are locked up in a footlocker in the attic. I’m just waiting for my son to be old enough to ask me about it on his own. It is a time capsule waiting for him to discover 
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September 18th, 2011, 04:29 AM
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#12 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: cent-IL, USA
Posts: 431
| Alibris;
Alibris out of print books may have one. Do a search of "Guidebook for Marines".
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September 20th, 2011, 06:38 AM
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#13 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Ozarks
Posts: 888
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I had such a bad short-timer's attitude that mine went to the dumpster. I couldn't imagine that I would ever bother, but I replaced it for a reasonable price a couple of years back. Of course I also couldn't imagine at the time that I'd fork over $1,500 to go to a reunion thirty years later. Now I have additional guidebooks from 1940 and 1949.
"Mexico wouldn't have drug cartels if the US had secure borders."
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September 20th, 2011, 09:59 AM
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#14 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Central Florida
Posts: 1,039
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I still have my original issue Guidebook from July, 1960. It's in a footlocker-type wooden chest with a lot of old Corps recruiting brochures, decals, stickers, etc. It is definitely a time capsule.
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September 20th, 2011, 02:22 PM
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#15 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Ozarks
Posts: 888
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The section on leadership is timeless. Wish it was required reading in the league.
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