4th Missile Command in Korea, 1959
Former Marine Sgt. Steve Garniss, now an Army PFC with Hq. Co. of the U.S. Army 4th Missile Command in Korea, peers at an aerial photo map as SP4 John Pearce looks over his shoulder. Garniss is a photo analyzer and Pearce is an order of battle man with the unit. They are studying photo maps to determine what installations are shown. The blue Guadalcanal patch of the 1st Marine Division that Sgt. Steve Garniss, from Whitman, Massachusetts, sports on his right shoulder is a rare sight on an Army uniform, but Garniss is a Leatherneck combat veteran whose earned the right to wear it. Garniss fought from the Pusan perimeter to the Chosin Reservoir during the first hard year of the Korean conflict with the 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division. Last year he traded his sergeant stripes and Marine uniform he had worn for eight years for Army green. Now with the Headquarters Company of the 4th Missile Command, Garniss is a photo analyzer.
