Tag: March 1968

Intuition–The Payback Patrol

Intuition–The Payback Patrol

When the order to move out rolled down the line, the clink and grunts and swish and stomp of Marines in motion rose up and hit the low lying fog and then came down over us like a parachute.

Michael E. O’Hara Muses On Navy Corpsmen and Marines

Michael E. O’Hara Muses On Navy Corpsmen and Marines

Never, in our glorious past has any one group of individuals EVER earned the respect and the admiration of Marines across the globe than our FMF Navy Corpsmen, more commonly referred to as “Doc.”

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

Fearless in facing the enemy, you were “cutting the mustard.”

Out of This Place

Out of This Place

At Dong Ha I checked into the transient barracks and spent over an hour in the hot shower trying to get the red mud of Khe Sanh out of the pores of my skin, as if cleansing myself of the dirt of that place would purge me of all that I had seen.

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