Florida dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps — and counting

Hillsborough dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps — and counting
By HOWARD ALTMAN
The Tampa Tribune
Published: June 18, 2011
At Camp Leatherneck, a rugged 1,550-acre Marine Corps base in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, Cpl. Aisling Feaser helps crunch intelligence information for her fellow Marines patrolling outside the wire.

Elsewhere in the camp, her sister, Cpl. Aine Feaser, helps orchestrate the complex task of making sure Marines headed back to the States get where they are going, along with their trucks, guns and other equipment.

And 7,400 miles away, on the bug-infested marshlands of Parris Island, S.C., a third Feaser sister, Niahm Cinn-Oir, is in boot camp, training to become a Marine.

Sitting on the couch of his Town 'N Country home, Tom Feaser laughs at the thought of having three daughters in the Marine Corps.

"It's funny," says Feaser, a former K-9 officer who is now a hospice nurse. "When Aine left, they picked her up at the door, and I did the typical parent thing: boo-hooed like an idiot for a little bit of time.

"When Aisling left, I boo-hooed and when Niahm left I said, 'Oh, thank God, she's gone.' "

Tom Feaser is the raw material for a sitcom. A 57-year-old Army veteran who did two years at the end of the Vietnam War, he is the single parent of five daughters.
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Hillsborough dad has 3 daughters in Marine Corps