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Current Service Status
USMC Veteran
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Current/Last Rank
Lance Corporal
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Current/Last Primary MOS
2531-Field Radio Operator
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Current/Last MOSGroup
Communications
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Primary Unit
1983-1984, 2531, 1st Bn, 9th Marines(1/9)
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Service Years
1981 - 1984
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Shellback Certificate
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1981-1982, 3rd Recruit Training Bn (Cadre/Instructors)
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1982-1982, 2531, MCAGCC 29 Palms, CA
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1982-1982, 2531, III MEF
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1982-1983, 2531, HQ Co, 7th Communication Bn
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1982-1983, 2531, 31st MAU
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1983-1984, 2531, 1st Bn, 9th Marines(1/9)
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1998, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), Post 3442, Kenneth Kuper Post (Life Member) (Custer, South Dakota)
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2005, American Legion, Post 8 (Life Member) (Pierre, South Dakota)
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2011, American Veterans (AMVETS)
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2012, Marine Corps Association and Foundation (MCA&F)
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2012, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines Association
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2018, Korean War Veterans Association (KWVA)
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2019, Korea Defense Veterans Association
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2020, 3rd Marine Division Association
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2020, Disabled American Veterans (DAV), Chapter 1 (Sioux Falls, South Dakota)
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2022, Plankowners of the National Museum of the Surface Navy, Plankowners (United States)
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2022, National Veterans Memorial and Museum
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What are you doing now:
https://davidansonbrown.com
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Other Comments:
MPN News January 16, 2019
Around 200,000 US troops are stationed in 177 countries throughout the world. Those forces utilize several hundred military installations. Africa is no exemption. On August 2, Maj. Gen. Roger L. Cloutier took command of US Army Africa, promising to "hit the ground running."
The US is not waging any wars in Africa but it has a significant presence on the continent. Navy SEALs, Green Berets, and other special ops are currently conducting nearly 100 missions across 20 African countries at any given time, waging secret, limited-scale operations. According to the magazine Vice, US troops are now conducting 3,500 exercises and military engagements throughout Africa per year, an average of 10 per day - an astounding 1,900% increase since the command rolled out 10 years ago. Many activities described as "advise and assist" are actually indistinguishable from combat by any basic definition.
There are currently roughly 7,500 US military personnel, including 1,000 contractors, deployed in Africa. For comparison, that figure was only 6,000 just a year ago. The troops are strung throughout the continent spread across 53 countries. There are 54 countries on the "Dark Continent." More than 4,000 service members have converged on East Africa. The US troop count in Somalia doubled last year.
Source: https://www.mintpressnews.com/africom-us-military-africa/248552/
Bloomberg Article -- Manuel Noriega, Panama Dictator Imprisoned by U.S., Dies at 83
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-30/manuel-noriega-panama-dictator-imprisoned-by-u-s-dead-at-83
Manuel Noriega -- As dictator from 1983 to 1989, the former general and Central Intelligence Agency source was accused of rigging elections, having ties to drug traffickers and ordering the killings of opponents. His "Dignity Battalions" broke up protests with baseball bats. After 22 years in U.S. and French jails, Noriega was returned to Panama in December 2011 to face murder and embezzlement charges connected to his six-year rule.
He also asked for forgiveness "from any person who feels offended, affected, harmed or humiliated by my actions or by those of my superiors as they carried out orders, or by those of my subordinates, during the responsibility of my civil and military government."
The day after Noriega's remarks, Varela said "it's time to forgive. The Panamanian people have moved on from that period of dictatorship."
ArmyTimes Article -- Retired Master Sgt. Hank Beck
https://www.armytimes.com/articles/fifty-years-later-green-beret-receives-distinguished-service-cross-for-valor-in-vietnam
In 1980, Beck completed the Special Forces qualification course and headed to 5th Special Forces Group at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
After working on the Special Forces scuba team and training local forces in Mogadishu, Somalia, he said, he retired in 1985, just a few months after graduating from the Sergeants Major Academy.
Fortitudine vol 29 no 4 -- "Exercise Jade Tiger" 31st MAU in Wahiba Sands, Oman pg #11 (PDF)
http://issuu.com/davidansonbrown/docs/fortitudine_vol_29_no_4/1
David A. Brown USMC 1981-1984 on issuu.com (PDF)
http://issuu.com/davidansonbrown/docs/usmc_brown_d_a_updated/1
Note: select view modes [i.e. two diagonal arrows - full screen] for controls at the bottom-right of the documents.
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