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To: Bobalu

I thought maybe the 3 referred to the Fighting Third, but the location doesn’t seem right, so probably not.

The 3rd Marine Division is an infantry division of the United States Marine Corps based at Camp Courtney, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler and Okinawa, Japan.

It is one of three active duty divisions in the Marine Corps and together with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (1stMAW) and the 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3rd MLG) forms the III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF).

The division was first formed during World War II and saw four years of continuous combat in the Vietnam War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Marine_Division_(United_States)


16 posted on 03/18/2018 11:00:20 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: greeneyes

Maybe it’s three Marines?


22 posted on 03/18/2018 11:29:18 PM PDT by defconw (Because Americans are dreamers, too!)
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