Who knew is all I can say.
My father was a WW2 Marine as was my three older brothers in the fifties and early sixties. I was born in 47 and no one told me about Marine Corp boot camp. None the less I followed family tradition and volunteered entering MCRD San Diego October 1966. Platoon 3343. Of course we were competing with other platoons and at one point I failed the PT score and was summarily PTd to death only to find out that my score was messed up. So I was back in good form. We did make Honor Platoon and upon graduation I made PFC. I had also made expert with the M1.
During IT I made the mistake of going to the clinic due to bad blisters when our instructor cought me and chewed me out. No sympathy. During IT I qualified expert in the M14, M16 and the 45 pistol. Subsequently I went to Sniper School and qualified expert in the Remington 700 BDL. This was the 2nd class near Camp Pendleton. I arrived in Vietnam June 1967. I was assigned to C Company 1/7 as a 0311 grunt and was never used as a sniper. Go figure.
C Company as I soon found out was famous from WW2 and Korea known as Suicide Charlie. The NVA and the Vietcong feared us for good reason. Operating mostly in Quang Nam Province until 1974. Of course I managed to survive and returned to the states in September 1968. Where I was transferred to the Marine Barracks NWS at Goose Creek, SC as Sgt. Of the Guard E-5. Polaris Missile Facility. My enlistment time was up in 1970. So I enlisted in the Air Force and retired in 1988. Returning to Charleston SC I ended back at the same base at Goose Creek and became a policeman. Who knew?
I was in C 1/7 and was wounded on 15 June 1967. Came back to the company. I was a Machine Gunner. I left for the states in Nov 67 (13 Month Tour). Wondered if we met. Got out in 68 had a 9 year bbreak in service and joined the NY National Guard and Later switched to the USAR. Became a mustang and later retured from the Army Reserves as a Major. All the way up the ranks in the Army reserve people asked me how hard the Marine Corps was. I kept telling them that I couldn’t get past E3 in the corps.
What platoon were you assigned to in C/1/7? I was Platoon Leader of 2nd platoon from early June ’67 till August when I became XO of Suicide Charlie till I rotated home in December ’67. My first combat patrol was with Sgt Low’s squad when Bill Hall was one of the wounded. I had been a tanker (1802), was on my 2nd tour in RVN when I left a bunker job for the grunts! Lot of memories – served with some mighty fine Marines. Semper Fi
No M-16’s in USMC IN 66
Did not qualify with an M-1 in 66 it was the M-14
Nobody qualified with anything in
ITR
Sniper school too?
US left Nam in 73
BULLS_IT!!
Thank you Mike, smells like BS to me also. H Young, USMC 64/69, RVN 65/66/69
Why is this fake story being posted again? This was posted a few weeks ago and the guy was called out as a fake then and still is a BS story!
Sgt. USMC. 73’- 77’
Sounds like Mike Angle, is working an Angle, and full of -hit.
For the same reasons Mike Jackson stated above.
Semper Fi to all ‘real’ Marines!
Frank S. Sgt. USMC. 1965-69
RVN, Aug . 67- Sept. 68, VMFA 323 & VMFA 542