Second Lt. Lejeune reads the Marine Corps Birthday message by his great-great uncle Major General John A. Lejeune
Second Lt. Learlin Lejeune, an Acadia Parish, Louisiana-native, is the great-great nephew of the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Lejeune. The renowned name of Lejeune on your name tape doesn't cut you any slack says Second Lt. Learlin Lejeune III,
“When I was going through OCS they found out what my last name was, and of course, there was some extra ‘special treatment’,” Learlin Lejeune said jokingly. “During my class there was myself, another Marine whose last name was Marine and a Marine with the last name Sailors. So everyday after class we would get together and see who had the most interesting afternoon.”
Now, a platoon commander with the “Walking Dead”, Learlin Lejeune prepares to lead his Marines on an upcoming deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, like his great-great uncle did during the Spanish-American War as a lieutenant."
There are a lot of famous last names in the Marine Corps and some not so famous. I haven't forgotten, for example, the @#@!%!! lifers in my unit who tripped over each other in their eagerness to promote a new replacement private whose last name was Major to Sergeant. Sgt. Major was placed on permanent phone answering detail to play a long running joke on all who dared call the base newspaper office. On a military base the phone is answered by announcing the office followed by your rank and name. No one ever heard the office name but they sure heard name: "Sergeant Major" The inattentive thought they had dialed the Base Sgt. Major's office office and hang up. Those were simpler times before the arrival of the Orcs.
By the way, the name of the young Private First Class who wrote the original story on Lejeune is .....
Casey Jones
