History
Patrick James Brady was a professional boxer whose career started in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he was a prized fighter as late as 1939. With the United States entering World War II, Brady was drafted into the marines. His career during the war is mostly unrecorded but he fought the Imperial Japanese at Guadalcanal in 1942, and in Okinawa in 1945. He saw action in the Korean War in 1950, but most of his activities during this time are also largely unrecorded. Following the end of the Korean War, Brady was posted as a Sargent Drill Instructor for the Marines Recruitment Depot on Parris Island in South Carolina. there he earned the nickname "Boot-Camp" Brady, and spent the remainder of the 1950s training new recruits as well as teaching them of military history in the United States[1].