Semper Fi Gentleman, and thank you both for your Service.
I have a special appreciation with Iwo Jima as I imagine most Marines do. I always try to collect anything I can associate to the Island
Run with the Fox, when were you at PWS? I love talking to 2112's. I screwed up when I joined, I wanted to do Infantry and I just didn't know any better at 18. If I could have done anything in the Marines now, I would have been a 2112. I think that has to be one of the most interesting jobs in the Corps.
I talk all the time to a friend who was a 2112 in the mid 2000's and always pick any new 2112's brain when I run across one.
The Marine Corps doesn't change much and usually the same way you Gentlemen build rifles hasn't changed much over the years. So I've been able to piece together traits on the older snipers by interviewing 2112's.
Yes Neidner moved to Dowagiac in 1920. I've been trying to figure out this Winchester A-5 Mystery for a while now. I keep on pulling documents from Archive locations and find new info everytime. It seems to be almost 5 different time periods of the A-5 Telescopic sight in the Marines and that is what makes it even more confusing in the documents.
I've tried Quantico many times as I write articles on Marine rifles, but have always struck out there. It seems most of the documents have been moved to a archive location.