Forty seven years ago, this Friday the 31st of August, we ('B' Btry 3rd LAAM Bn – MCAS Cherry Point, NC) landed at Da Nang, South Viet Nam in a C-130 (GV-1). Not a weapon among us and just a mite nervous, we instantly became 'A' Btry 1st LAAM Bn.
The accommodations were luxurious (GP tents), the scenery spectacular (sand with Monkey Mountain in the background) and the chow nourishing (only a short dusty hike away, down at H&S Btry).
God bless my Marine Corps.
Forged on the anvil of discipline.
The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
Oderint dum metuant
Let them hate, so long as they fear.
–Caligula