Their last activities in-country were in March of that year and Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment now exists in the history of the Corps and the hearts and memories of the Marines and Corpsmen who served.The Hai Van Pass places high on the list of the most scenic spots in Vietnam and should be on every traveler’s bucket list. On May 1, 1970, I was out of the Marine Corps attending a local junior college in Central Arizona and working as a sheetrock humper on the construction of some high schools in the Phoenix area.īravo Company and the 26th Marines no longer existed in terms of a combat unit in Vietnam on May 1, 1970.
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On May 1, 1969, I was deployed at Marine Barracks, 36th Street Naval Station in San Diego, California, where I worked in the Navy Brig Base Parolee dorms, harassing prisoners, holding snap inspections and throwing improperly arranged footlockers out the windows three stories down into the yard.īravo Company was part of a battalion landing team and took part in a heliborne and seaborne assault rehearsal north of the NamO Bridge near Danang in anticipation of more rambunctious action in the days to come. The company also took incoming machine gun fire. During the day, 9 rounds of incoming mortar fire were received and one Marine was wounded. First Platoon ran an ambush the night of April 30 and returned into the perimeter early on the morning of May 1. On May 1, 1968, I had been home from Khe Sanh, the siege and Vietnam for over two weeks, and had been drinking, partying and pondering a trip with friends to Nogales, Mexico, for margaritas, street tacos and bullfights to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.īravo Company, gone from Khe Sanh, was defending Wonder Beach on May 1, 1968. They also found a Punji stake which was taken back to the company CP for examination. On May 1, 1967, on patrol south of Hill 55, elements of Bravo Company found a 60MM mortar employed as an antipersonnel mine which they destroyed with a pound of TNT. Alpha Company of the battalion had already left the Hill 55 area for Phu Bai on the battalion’s journey that eventually led us to Khe Sanh where elements of the Third and Ninth Marine Regiments had been and were then locked in vicious fights for Hills 861, 881 South and 881 North. Third Platoon was dug in on a river crossing further south. First and Second Platoons were dug in at an old ville south of Hill 55, which was southwest of Danang in I Corps in the northern part of Vietnam. I was in my second semester of college at Arizona State University studying Business Administration and as far as I can recollect, had no intention of joining the United States Marine Corps, or the service, or of ever venturing to Vietnam.Īfter a chain of events that saw me enlist and ship out for Vietnam, by I was already in the field with Bravo Company. They were on their way and soon would function as a battalion landing team up and down the coast of Vietnam. On May 1, 1966, neither the battalion nor Bravo had yet been in the Vietnam area of operations. What was Bravo Company doing on various May Firsts while the battalion, my battalion…First Battalion, 26th Marines…was in Vietnam? Thinking about those eight years, I often ponder what my old unit was doing in Vietnam while I as home in the United States. Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor is a documentary film about the Siege of Khe Sanh, a seventy-seven day period in a war that went on in excess of eight years.
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