[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Here’s a Wikipedia page they wasted no time in putting up...Can anyone confirm this info?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_(activist)

‘Phillips joined the Marine Corps, serving in the Vietnam War as a Recon Ranger and Infantryman.He served in the U.S. military from 1972 to 1976’

Weren’t the Marines pulled out of Vietnam in ‘71??

[Mears]

From Wiki—

“Marines were withdrawn in 1971, and returned briefly in 1975 to evacuate Saigon and attempt a rescue of the crew of the Mayagüez.[67]”

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[coon2000]

The Marine Rangers were disbanded shortly after the end of WWII. MARSOC was created sometime around 2006 and the Ranger name came back a couple of years ago. There were no Marine Rangers in Vietnam as they were decommissioned at that time.

[jjotto]

I think this is the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_(activist)

...born February 22nd, 1954...

...Phillips joined the Marine Corps, serving in the Vietnam War as a Recon Ranger and Infantryman. He served in the U.S. military from 1972 to 1976...

[chulaivn66]

There were no Recon Rangers in the Corps. Recon? Yes. It’s Wiki. Take it with a block of salt.

[robowombat]

There were no Recon Ranger s in the USMC. At that time there were ‘Force Reconnaissance” units that functioned roughly like a combination long range recon and raid behind d enemy lines ranger type operators. That tells you the writer of this knows little.

[robowombat]

Weren’t the Marines pulled out of Vietnam in ‘71??

Yes other than advisers to the Viet Marines. However in72 during the Easter Offensive a Marine air unit (F-7’s I think, was sent to the RVN and they had supporting units and a infantry security unit. When the NVA was about to enter Saigon in April ‘75 Marine infantry were sent to cover evacuation of US nationals . I think that was Operation Eagle Pull. Then Marines were used in the ferocious little war with the Khmer on Koh Tang Island. Basically it would be unlikely this guy was there. He isn't forthcoming with his bona fides which anyone who has real combat time will tell you directly when and where they were.

[downtownconservative]

My info is he was born in 1955. That would make him 16 in ‘71, 17 in ‘72. He could possibly have joined the Marines in 73 at 18 years old,. but could not have been combat-trained until ‘74. The Marines were in the process of pulling out in ‘74 and South Vietnam fell to Ho Chi Min in mid ‘75. There’s not much there there for Mr. Phillips.