I am fully retired. I volunteer with visiting sick and confined hospital comrades. Assist widows and orphans of our departed comrades.
I was a 0311 during ITR. Afterwards I served as a 0331 Machine Gunner. In 1963 I was assigned to H&S Co 2/8, CLNC and become a 0341 81 Mortarman. I was assigned as a MP 5811/5813 from Jan71 to my 30 years were completed on 01 July 1986.
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I served my 1st 15 yrs as Infantry and my last 15 as Military Police Provost Sgt/Accident Investigator.
Best Friends Jim Bellflower, GySgt (Ret); Sgt Nelton R. Bryant, Kia RVN 1966; MSgt John Brinkley (Ret); SgtMaj Larry Healy (deceased); MGySgt Stanley Stewart, (Ret); and many other Marines.
Best Moment When I did not die from injuries received on Hill 881 at Khe Sanh.
Worst Moment Sitting under consatnt round the clock rockets, mortars and artillery incoming at the Khe Sanh Combat Base with 81mm Mortars, H&S 3/26.
Other Memories Boot Camp and serving with MGen James L. Day, (deceased0 Medal of Honor received after 53 years for herioc actions on Sugar Loaf Hill during Battle of Okinawa 1945. He received his medal in Jan 1998 and passed away in October 1998.