Who designed the 5th Marine Division insignia?

General Bourke?

Sorry Fox, that's incorrect.

Major General Keller Rockey.

I guess you're right. Since The Cooler King is on MIA list. You can shoot a question when you're ready, Marine.

"The new fighting force soon received the honor of its own special moniker: Spearhead. Nearly 600 Marines submitted entries to design a shoulder insignia expressing this name. The winning design, created by a lieutenant named Fergus Young, was a scarlet shield and gold V, pierced by a spearhead of blue."

James Bradley. Flags of Our Fathers. Pg. 157.

Crap, I read that book. I should have to remember it. So, it's Lt. Fergus Young.

BTW, welcome back, man.

Originally Posted by rotc boy

the Marine Corps barracks on 8th and I street

Wasn't it the Commandant's home? Not sure the Marine Barracks was there at the time. These days,I know it's considered one and the same but it is a separate building at the location, about a block away from each other.

Since the barracks was in the vicinity of the Navy Yard then and the Commandants house is now part of the barracks I think Barracks works.

It is considered the same these days. Marine Barracks, Commandants house as well as MCI. When I was there, former Joint Chiefs, Gen. Peter Pace, was Col. Pace, my C.O.