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USMC 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion memorial, center marble stone is for Medal of Honor recipients, red bricks above and below: team "Flight Time" Ocala, Florida. On 4 June 1969, the 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion lost an entire 6 man recon team, call sign "Flight Time". [6] No other full team was lost during the remaining six years of the Vietnam ...
3rd Marine Division, 2nd Raider's sign on Bougainville A young Marine waits on the beach at Da Nang in Vietnam during the Marine landing, March 8, 1965. U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Eric Kassow, a rifleman with 3d Marine Division, provides security during the 3d Marine Division Rifle Squad Competition at Camp Gonsalves, Okinawa, Japan U.S. Marines with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine ...
PFC Jenkins was transferred to the Republic of Vietnam in July 1968, and assigned to Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. Later that month, he was reassigned as a scout and driver with Company C, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion. [1]
On 20 April operational control of the Khe Sanh area passed to the 3rd Marine Regiment. [1]: 35 On 22 April 1967 SLF Bravo comprising 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines supported by HMM-164 had commenced Operation Beacon Star on the southern part of the Street Without Joy straddling Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Provinces against the Vietcong (VC) 6th Regiment and 810th and 812th Battalions.
In November 1968, Anderson was reassigned duty with the 3rd Marine Division in the Republic of Vietnam, and served initially as a rifleman with Company D, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines. In January 1969, he assumed duty as a scout, and later, Assistant Fire Team Leader with Company E, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division. Anderson was ...
C Company, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion: South Vietnam, Quang Nam Province: Fell from a hoist while being lowered to search for 2LT David Skibbe [25] Killed in action, body not recovered [3] March 2: Skibbe, David W: 2nd Lieutenant: USMC: 1st Reconnaissance Battalion: South Vietnam, Quang Nam Province
He completed The Basic School, Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia, in November 1967. In December 1967, he arrived in the Republic of Vietnam, where he was assigned duty as a platoon commander of "Team Box Score", 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division.
3rd Battalion 1st Marines: South Vietnam, Quảng Nam Province: Member of a 4-man fire team that disappeared while moving to a night ambush position. The remains of 1 Marine, PFC Robert C Borton were returned in 1993 [186] Presumptive finding of death [3] August 28: Bodenschatz, John E: Private First Class: USMC: 3rd Battalion 1st Marines ...