9th At Beach
9thAtBeach – S-3 Section enlisted at Chu Lai on a rare Sunday off – I’m the skinny one on left
Category: Marine Corps Stories
Tinian Island
Tinian Island
Here is me with a 60 on the island of Tinian. Saipan is in the background.
Cpl Steve Ahkeah
Weapons Co. 1/5 HMG FMF
986
Thanks!
“Color Photos”
“Color Photos”
Sgt Grit,
These pictures were taken while Alpha company was operating off of hill 22 in Late 1967 and early 68. We moved to hill 10 in June of 1968.
1. Toughest squad of 1st Platoon
l-r standing Haymaker, ?, Wilson, Jones, ?, me, ” Baby” Franks
l-r bent over, Tilly, Benny Lee
l-r kneeling Munday, Lafountain, Towns
2. Mid patrol swim in the Song Tuy Loan river
l-r me, Mike Tarbox
Domingo Rios Jr
My name is Domingo Rios jr. I was with M 3/7 1st Mar Div from March 69 to Feb 70. Here are a couple of pictures you can add to your site. Hope someone remembers me.
One is with the whole squad I was in, which was 1st sqd 1st Platoon. This picture was taken right after Operation Oklahoma Hills.
Suicide Charlie Company
Sgt. Grit,
Please place this in the 1st Marine Division BS Page.
I am PFC Mark W. Chase (center of picture), Suicide Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Division. This picture was taken July of 1967 on Hill 41 Quang Nam Province. Does anyone recognize the other 2 men on either side of me?
My name is Glenn Zak
Sgt Grit,
In the Marines from 68 to 70. Served with Bravo Co. 11th Motor Transport Battalion 1st Marine Division RVN 69/70. 3531 Now living on Floridas Gulf Coast.
For the 225th birthday attended the ceromonies in DC. Last year spent the birthday on Parris Island (It was great!!!) This year going to Pensecola Air station to party with the fly boys and see the Blue Angels final show of the year for their home base. (VIP passes) Trying to do something different every year.
HQ 3/11 radio operators, 1st MarDiv
These are four radio operators that I served with in 66 and 67. From left to right, Smitty, Mouse Westric, ? and Southern. I went to radio/telegraph operators school at MCRD San Diego with Mouse and Southern. They were in RT5A and I was in RT5.
I'm sending this picture and short story because I've had real good luck with finding Marine buddies or having them locate me through the BS page. For example, Doyle Sanders, Jack Stokes, and most recently George Crumbley. Semper Fi, Milt (Jinx) Jenkins Lthrneck6569@aol.com
Richard Williams
China Beach
The Guys, Semper Fi
11th Marines Main Gate
Golf Company “Lift Off”
Sgt Grit,
Photos taken of Golf Co. 2nd Bn 1st Marines sometime around May 1968 during Operation Lancaster.
Lift off from a hill somewhere near the Laotian border. HMM252 getting us out of another "hot one".
Landing back at Khe Sanh combat base, home sweet home. Cpl. Tom Manson Golf 2/1 on the airstrip at Khe Sanh.
The Alphabet Men of C Co. First Tank Battalion
The Alphabet Men of C Co. First Tank Battalion
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.Homer in The Iliad, 800 BC
At Camp Elliott in San Diego after Boot Camp in early 1943, we were "volunteered" alphabetically, A, B, C & D, for Marine Corps tank training at Jaques Farm. The Alphabet Men, of whom I was one, were Alvarez, Atkinson, Backovich, Bahde, Barwick, Brenkert, Christensen-and many others too numerous to list. Even today, almost 60 years later, I continue to ponder the mysterious fate of being thrown together with some of America's finest, only because of the alphabet.