Chuck Palmer is on a mission.He wants to make sure that Marine Lance Cpl. Ronnie Porta knows just how much his service to his country in the Global War on Terror means to Mantecans.Porta has spent the last 54 months undergoing 130 surgeries after the Humvee he was driving was blown up by an improvised explosive device In Iraq. Two of his fellow Marines – Master Sergeant Kenneth Mack and Palmer’s son and Manteca High graduate Lance Corporal Charles Palmer – perished in the inferno. Porta startled other Marines on the scene - who couldn’t get closer than 20 feet to the Humvee due to the intensity of the fire - when he walked out of the wall of flames.