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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, but Okinawa, China, Korea, Japan AND Vietnam?

That enhances the chances a bit.

He was helping protect a coal mine from Mao’s troops in post WWII northern China, never got a clear idea of where in Korea he was, big chunks of the 50’s and early 60s at Atsugi, Da Nang in ‘67-68.

Except for shipboard defense on the Maryland off Okinawa, mostly ground support for Marine aviation.


31 posted on 09/07/2013 10:59:12 PM PDT by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void

He was in communications, eventually becoming a commo chief as a gunnery sergeant. Went back to Okinawa again and again. I know he was in the 9th Defense Battalion in Korea and was with a survey team going to Vietnam in the late 50’s or early 60’s when it was decided we’d be taking the Frog’s place there. He went Fleet Reserve in 1965.


33 posted on 09/07/2013 11:06:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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