'She wanted to help people' USMC Captain remembers fallen Marine Sgt. Rosario Pichardo

MY NAME IS CAPTAIN GMAIL WAS TASK FORCE 515 I WAS STARTING MOST PEOPLE IN THIS WORLDGE. STRUGGLE KNOW IF THEY TRULY MADE DIFFERENCE. THEY WONDER WHAT'S MY PURPOSE? WHY AM I HERE? WHAT SHOULD I DO?? SOME RESERVE AND YOU ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. SHE KNEW THAT ULTIMATELY SHE WANTED TO HELP PEOPLE. SPECIFICAN SUMMERSRE A JOIN THE MARINE CORPS IN MARCH OF 2015. AFCARI GRADUATING FROM TRAINING DAN MARINE COMBAT TRAINING BATTALION FOR STUDENT ASSIGNMENT WAS WITH THE MARINE AIR CONTROL SQUADRON FOR A MARINE CORPS AIR STATION FOR TEMA IN OKINAWA, JAPAN. SHE SERVED AT THIS REQUIEQUISITN MANAGENTME CLERK AND PROPERTY NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR PURCHASING. ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND REPAIR PARTS ENSURING EVERYTHING WAS PROPERTYTY ACCOUNT FOR AS YOU CN IMAGINE WITH EVERYTHING IN THE MARINE. CORPS HAS IT'S NOT AN EASY TASK. SHE GOT IT DONE. AS WHILE SHE WAS MAX FOR AS PROMOTES THE RATE OF RKAN OF CORPORAL AND BECAME A NONON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER AN N. THOSE YOU DON'T KNOW AND SEALERS WITH BACKBONE IN THE MARINE CORPS. AFTER SUCCESSLFU TOUR IN OKINAWA NOW CORPORAL ROSARIO REPORTED TO FIRST RECRUIT TRAIN BATTALION AT MARINE CORPS OF RECRUITING DUTY SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA YOU SERVED AS WKOR AND WOULD JUST SECTION BEFORE REPORTING TO RECRUITER SCHOOL WHERE SHE SERVED AS A SUPPLY CHIEF IN THE LOGISTICS CHIEF. DURING THIS ASSIGNMENT. SHE ATTENDED CORPUS COURSE AND STARTING FORCE. IT WAS PROMOTED TO SERGEANT. I WE OTHER DAY. IT'S ALLHE TSE LETTERS ARE APPRECIATION STRATEGISTS ACCOMMODATION ALL FOR GETTING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. VOLUNTEERING SOUP KITCHENS HUMA SNEOCIETIES AND HELPING PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA EVEN AS BUSY SHE WAS SHE FOUND A WAY TO FULFILL HER PASSION. AND FINALLY ABOUT A YEAR AGO IN AUGUST OF 2020. SUMMERS ARE REPORTED TO NAVAL AND FABSIU FORCE TASK FORCE 51 5TH MARINE EXPEDITION BRIGADE. WELL, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SARS ARE SAT NEAR THE FRONT OFFICE. SHE HAD THE SIGN SAID FLUENT IN SARCM.AS HE SAID INITIALLY SHE THOUGHT IT SAID FOOD IN SPANISH, BUT IT SEEMED A BIT SO SHE STUCK WITH IT. SHE ADOPTED. SHE CAN PRESCRIBED THAT SIGN AND BY HER NICKNAME ROSIE. SHE SWORE LIKE AN OFF FIGURE TO EVERYONE IN THE SHOP. WITHIN A DAY OF HER ARRIVAL I WAS STILL REALLY BY MY PREDECESSOR AND THE FIRST SERGEANT THAT YOU NEED TO PUT SOME ROSARIO IN CHARGE. I RELIED ON STARTING WITH OUR FOR EVERYTHING. NO MATTER HOW BUSY SHE WAS. SHE ALWAYS STOPPED IT WHAT SHE'S DOING TO HELP WHOEVER CAME THE OFFICE BEFORE CONTINUING ON WITH HER WORK EVEN WHEN THEY'RE MILLION THINGS GOING ON. SHE FOUND WAY TO GET DONE. I'D ASK HER. I'M ROSARIO. WHAT'S THIS HOUSE ON THIS? DONE, SIR. STORM ROSARIO. WHAT'S T THE STATUS ON THIS? ALREADY Y WORKING AND SERVE. NOT HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY DESK AND FIND SOMETHING TO DO. ESH WA. 'Y OPPORTUNITIES TO GO THE FRONT LINE, BUT AS MAR. THAT'S WHAT WE ALL WANT. NO, IT SOUNDS WEIRD TO MOST PEOPLE. BUT WE WANT TO TRULY TRULY KNOW WE DID OUR PART. A LOT OF WHAT SS DONE THE BACKGROUND SO WHENEVER I GET A MARINE THAT WANTS TO DEPLOY I TELL THEM YOU WORK HARD YOU PERFORM. I'LL SEND YOU FORWARD THE FIRST CHANCE I GET. I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVD YOUR BEST FRIEND FORWARD IF YOU MUST SEND SEND SOMEONE IT MUST BE TOUGH. WHEN WE GOT THE WORD. AROUND ME THAT WE NEED TO SANTA MARINES TO SUPPORT THE JOINT. FIRST FOR CRISIS RESPONSE. I KNEW I WAS GOING TO STAND ROSARIO. I KNEW SHE'D BE ABLE TO ADAPT TO SITUATIONS FIGURED OUT. AND AS MUCH AS HER CAPABILITIES IN THE REAR, I KNEW WE'D FIGURED AFTER ONLY AEW F DAYS OF BEING DEPLOYED. I GOT A MESSAGE FROM ANOTHER CAPTAINS ON THE GROUND WITH THEIR CAPTAIN FALSIE. SAYING THAT START ROSARI WAS ALREADY WAY ABOVE FOR CSSLA A WINSTON'S PRIZE THAT SHE WAS DEAN MORGAN SHE NEEDED JUST TO MAKE THE SITUATION A LITTLE BETTER FOR EVERYONE ELSE AS YOU TBU THEN A WEEK LATER, I GOT A CALL FROM CAMP SASSY AROUND 1700. I ALREADY SAW THE NEWS. I KNEW WHATE' 'S GONNA SAY BEFORE HE SAID IT BUT DO MAKE HER HURT ANY WORSE. ANY LESS? CONFIRDME KIA MY HEART SANK. THAT'S A ROUGH WEEKEND. I KNEW THERE'D ALWAYS BE A GAP IN SUPPLY WITH ON A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LEVER LEVEL. I M MET ROSARI WANTED TO HELP WOMEN AND CHILDREN. AND THAT'S WHATHE S DID. SHE WAS PART OF THE LARGEST AIRLIFT OPERATION IN ERAMICAN HISTORY. EVERYTNGHI SHE DID IN AFGHANISTAN CONTRIBUTED T SAVING OVER 124,000 LIVES. THE TERM HERO IS USED TOO OFTEN. . WE'RE NOT YOU'RE NOT A HERO JUST BECAUSE YOU SERVE. I'M HNOERO. SUMMERSARO IS A HERO. THAT DAY HR COMPLETING HER ASSIGN. THE SUMMIT ROSARIO ASK CAPTAIN FALSIE IF SHE COULD HELP AT THE GATES SHE WANTED TO GET AFTER IT AND LITERALLY PULL PEOPLE TO SAFETY. LAY IN THE AFTERNOON. THERE'S A GROUP OF MARINES AND SOLDIERS ATTEMPTING TO PUSHED BACK A MOB FROM OVERRUNNING THE GATES THAT RIDE SHIELDS TO KEEP BACK THEM UP. PEOPLE TRYING TO FLEE FOR T THE LIS IN BETWEEN THAT MOB THERE WERE TWO WOMEN. TWO AFGHAN WOMEN BEING CRUSHED THEY'REEL HPLESS. SOME R ROSARION FASTER BEFORE SHE TOOK OFF. HER FINAL WORDS THEY NAMED ME SIR.

Channel: WCVB Channel 5 Boston

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Keywords: Boston, Funeral, Johanny Rosario Pichardo, Marines, eulogy, pascal demeo, wcvb

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 14 2021