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This Month In USMC History | |
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Jacob Zeilin, Colonel Commandant of the Marine Corps from 30 June 1864, was this date promoted to the rank of Brigadier General Commandant, the first time Congress authorized this rank for the Marine Corps. The statute, however, was repealed in June 1874 so that the rank of Commandant would again revert to colonel upon Zeilin's retirement. 8 March 1965: The 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade landed at DaNang, Republic of Vietnam as the first U.S. ground combat troops to be committed to that conflict. The 3,500 men arrived both across the beach with Battalion Landing Team 3/9, and at DaNang Airfield with Battalion Landing Team 1/3. 11 March 1778: Marines participated the action when the Continental Navy frigate BOSTON, enroute to France, sighted, engaged, and captured the British merchant ship MARTHA. As the drum of the BOSTON beat to arms, John Adams seized a musket and joined the Marines on deck until the frigate's captain, Samuel Tucker, sent him below for safety. 13 March 1943: The first group of71 Women Marine officer candidates arrived at the U.S. Midshipmen School (Women's Reserve) at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. The Navy's willingness to share training facilities enabled the Marine Corps to begin training Marine Corps Women's Reserve officers just one month after the creation of the MCWR was announced. 17 March 1967: The first woman Marine to report to Vietnam for duty, Master Sergeant Barbara J. Dulinsky, began her 18-hour flight to Bien Hoa, 30 miles north of Saigon. MSgt Dulinsky and the other officer and enlisted Women Marines that followed were assigned to the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) based in Saigon. Most worked with the Marine Corps Personnel Section providing administrative support to Marines assigned as far north as the DMZ, but two Lieutenant Colonels, Ruth Reinholz and Ruth O'Holleran, served as historians with the Military History Branch, Secretary Joint Staff, MACV. 25 March 1945: After 35 days of bitter fighting, the amphibious assault on the rocky fortress of Iwo Jima finally appeared over. On the night of 25 March, however, a 300-man Japanese force launched a vicious final counterattack in the vicinity of Airfield Number 2. Army pilots, Seabees and Marines of the 5th Pioneer Battalion and 28th Marines fought the fanatical Japanese force till morning but suffered heavy casualties --more than l00 killed and another 200 American wounded. Nearly all of the Japanese force was killed in the battle. 27 March 1953: The 5th Marines, supported by the 2d Battalion, 7th Marines, in the first full day of fighting after the Chinese assault the previous evening of Outpost Vegas on Korea's western front, counterattacked to regain enemy-held positions. Companies E and F of 2/7 , down to only three platoons between them, managed to regain partial control of Outpost Vegas that day. 31 March 1801: On this date, LtCol Commandant William W. Burrows rode with president Thomas Jefferson to look for "a proper place to fix the Marine Barracks on." President Jefferson was a personal friend of the Commandant, and deeply interested in the welfare of the Corps and accompanied Burrows on horseback on the morning of 31 March. They chose a square in Southeast Washington, bounded by 8th and 9th streets, and a & I streets, because it lay near the Navy Yard and was within easy marching distance of the Capitol. |
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| History Of Marine Corps Force Recon | |
| |  Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance was first conceived in 1954, at Marine Base Camp Pendleton, outside of San Diego, California, when an experimental recon team was formed. Three years later, that team merged with an existing amphibious reconnaissance company to form the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company. In 1958, half the Marines in 1st Force were removed from the Company and hauled over to the Eastern seaboard, forming the 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company. 1st Force supplemented Fleet Marine Force Pacific (FMFPac), while 2nd, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic (FMFLant). Force Reconnaissance received their baptism by fire during the Vietnam War, arriving first in 1965 and staying for five years. Forty-four Marines of 1st Force were killed or missing in action through the course of the war. After US withdrawal from Vietnam, 1st Force and 2nd Force were both deactivated in 1974, and the existing Force Marines were rolled into the non-Force 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion in order to maintain Marine Corps deep recon capabilities. However, the roll-in was never completed to a satisfactory condition, and 1st Force Reconnaissance was reactivated as an individual unit in 1986, and was later deployed in the Gulf War. Many Force Recon Companies are in existence today, and have been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Posted by admin on Thursday 26 March 2009 - 18:52:52 | LAN_THEME_20 | |
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| Marines Awarded The Medal Of Honor During The Vietnam War | |
| | * PFC James Anderson, Jr. - 1967 - 3rd Marines * * Lance Corporal Richard A. Anderson - 1967 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * * PFC Oscar P. Austin - 1969 - 7th Marines * * Lance Corporal Jedh C. Barker - 1967 - 4th Marines * 1st Lieutenant Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. - 1965 - 9th Marines 2d Lieutenant John P. Bobo - 1967 - 9th Marines * PFC Daniel D. Bruce - 1969 - 5th Marines * * PFC Robert C. Burke - 1968 - 27th Marines * * PFC Bruce W. Carter - 1969 - 3rd Marines * PFC Robert M. Clausen, Jr. - 1970 - HMM-263 * PFC Robert L. Coker - 1969 - 3rd Marines * Staff Sergeant Peter S. Conner - 1966 - 3rd Marines * Colonel Donald G. Cook - 1964-67 - Sr. Marine Advisor * Lance Corporal Thomas E. Creek - 1969 - 9th Marines * Sergeant Rodney M. Davis - 1967 - 5th Marines * * Lance Corporal Emilio De La Garza, Jr. - 1970 - 1st Marines * * PFC Ralph E. Dias - 1969 - 7th Marines * * PFC Douglas E. Dickey - 1967 - 4th Marines * * Sergeant Paul H. Foster - 1967 - 4th Marines * 1st Lieutenant Wesley L. Fox - 1969 - 9th Marines * Sergeant Alfredo Gonzalez - 1968 - 1st Marines * * Captain James A. Graham - 1967 - 5th Marines * * 2nd Lieutenant Terrance C. Graves - 1968 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard - 1966 - 1st Recon. Battalion * Lance Corporal James D. Howe - 1970 - 7th Marines * * PFC Robert H. Jenkins, Jr. - 1969 - 3rd Recon. Battalion * * Lance Corporal Jose F. Jimenez - 1969 - 7th Marines * * PFC Ralph H. Johnson - 1968 - 1st Recon. Battalion * * LCpl Miguel Keith - 1970 - Combined Action Platoon 1-3-2 * Staff Sergeant Allan J. Kellogg, Jr. - 1970 - 5th Marines Captain Howard V. Lee - 1966 - 4th Marines Captain James E. Livingston - 1968 - 4th Marines * PFC Gary W. Martini - 1967 - 1st Marines * * Corporal Larry L. Maxam - 1968 - 4th Marines * Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty III - 1966 - 4th Marines Captain Robert J. Modrzejewski - 1966 - 4th Marines * Corporal William D. Morgan - 1969 - 9th Marines * * PFC Melvin E. Newlin - 1967 - 5th Marines * * Lance Corporal Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - 1969 - 9th Marines * Corporal Robert E. O'Malley - 1965 - 3rd Marines * Lance Corporal Joe C. Paul - 1965 - 4th Marines * Corporal William T. Perkins, Jr. - 1967 - 3rd Marine Division * Sergeant Lawrence D. Peters - 1967 - 5th Marines * PFC Jimmy W. Phipps - 1969 - 1st Engineer Battalion Lance Corporal Richard A. Pittman - 1966 - 5th Marines Captain Stephen W. Pless - 1967 - VMO-6 * Lance Corporal William R. Prom - 1969 - 3rd Marines * * 1st Lieutenant Frank S. Reasoner - 1965 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * * Sergeant Walter K. Singleton - 1967 - 9th Marines * * Corporal Larry E. Smedley - 1967 - 9th Marines * * Lance Corporal Karl G. Taylor, Sr. - 1968 - 26th Marines * Captain M. Sando Vargas, Jr. - 1968 - 4th Marines * Lance Corporal Lester W. Weber - 1968 - 7th Marines * * Lance Coporal Roy M. Wheat - 1967 - 7th Marines * * PFC Dewayne F. Williams - 1968 - 1st Marines * PFC Alfred M. Wilson - 1969 - 9th Marines Lance Corporal Kenneth L. Worley - 1968 - 7th Marines | |
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| Marine Corps "Blood Stripe". | |
| | of certain traditional aspects. One frequent question raised is "Why do Marine officers and NCOs have red stripes on the blue uniform trousers?" According to legend this commemorates the courage and tenacious fighting of the men who battled before Chapultapec in the Mexican War and whose exploits added the phrase "From the Halls of Montezuma..." to the Marine Hymn. The red stripe on the trousers of all Marine officers and NCOs is said to symbolize the blood shed by these Marines of another century. | |
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Marine Of The Month | |
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Lance Cpl. James M. Gluff  20, of Tunnel Hill, Ga.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Jan. 19 in Ramadi, Iraq, while conducting combat operations. |
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