I served as a squad leader with the second platoon of the Provisional Rifle Company, located at the Force Logistics Command just north of Da Nang near Red Beach. We were the perfect example of “Every Marine a Rifleman”. Everyone in the second platoon as I recall, were from the Communications Company but FLC needed protection…
Vietnam …was to become the longest war ever fought by the American armed forces and certainly one of the U.S. most unpopular. For almost ten years, we sent our young men and women to serve, fight and died along side each other without the full support of a country, whose flag they served. Read More:
Last summer, Ken Ballinger, a K-9 officer with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, was conducting a training session with working dogs on a hot and humid New England day. For safety, Ballinger had arranged for two veterinarians and three paramedics to be on site. When the dogs were not working, they were resting in air-conditioned…