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1St Marine Brigade Celebrates 20Th Anniversary 1 vol. 2, No. 3 Helping to keep Hawaii Marine green Jan.19, 1973 1st Marine Brigade celebrates 20th anniversary K-BAY -- The I st Marine 27th Marine Regiment was reactivated. Squadron -122 arrived at the Kaneohe Brigade is observing its 20th During the 1968 "Tet Air Station from Vietnam during anniversary with a Color Ceremony at Offensive," the Brigade was again used September 1970. This brought Marine 8 o'clock this morning in front of the to supply the manpower to thwart Aircraft Group-24's strength up to Brigade headquarters. Communist intentions in Vietnam. three fighter /attack squadrons While a number of organizations During February, the 1st Battalion was available to support the operations of in the past have been designated or ordered to Vietnam, and after eight the 1st Marine Brigade. titled "1st Marine Brigade," the months of fighting, returned to Hawaii This was followed in May 1971 present brigade is a descendant of the and the Air Station as the infantry arm by the addition of the MAG's first 1st Provisional Marine Air-Ground of the 1st Marine Brigade. Helicopter Squadron (HMM) -262 Task Force, which was activated here On December 2, 1969, the colors arriving on May 17, and Marine Heavy in 1953. of the battalion were retired, and the Helicopter Squadron (HMH) -463 April 18, 1953, marked the day Kaneohe unit was redesignated as the arriving on May 30. that 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines. the late former President Harry S The 1st Radio Battalion colors Truman was honored guest at a Although there were no actual parade, review and commissioning troop changes, unit names were ceremony for the task force. Its changed. First Brigade units at the Air See page 8 for a brief glance commander was Brigadier General J.P. Station were: 1st Battalion, 3rd at some faniliar Brigade Riseley. The task force was comprised Marines; "A" Battery, 1st Battalion, scenes then and now of Marine Aircraft Group-13 as the air 12th Marines (Artillery); and Marine portion and the 3rd Marines as the Aircraft Group-24 with Marine fts. ground component. Fighter/Attack Squadrons 212 and were officially presented to the In August 1953, the 3rd Marines 235. Brigade on April 18. were ordered to Japan, with the 1st Then during March 1970, the On May 20, the 9th Engineer Provisional Reconnaissance Group Brigade added two more units to its Battalion colors were retired and the becoming the major ground unit until list: Company "A" (Reinforced), 1st unit was redesignated as the 3rd the 4th Marines arrived from Japan in Engineer Battalion, and Company Engineer Battalion. On June 4, the 1st February 1955. "A,'," 1st Amphibian Tractor Battalion, 12th Marines joined the In a historic ceremony in May Battalion, fresh from the Republic of Brigade, followed by the presentation 1956, nearly 2,000 spectators Vietnam. of the 3rd Marine Regiment colors on witnessed the renaming of the 1st Marine Fighter/Attack June 9. Provisional Air-Ground Task Force to 0 1st Marine Brigade, when the task force colors were retired and the Brigade's colors were activated. Register Drawing elements from the 3rd Now! Marine Division and the 1st Marine The 12-week class, which begins Aircraft Wing, the Brigade's immediate K-BAY - Registration is being held at the Joint Education Center in Jan. 30, will be given each Tuesday goal was to become completely air Building 219 for K-Bay servicemen and Thursday in Building 267 from transportable and maintain an and their dependents who are 8-10:30 p.m. amphibious assault capability, The only fee for the class will be employing interested in taking a high school vertical envelopment for books required by the instructor. tactics. American. Black History Class. The late '50s and early '60s saw the Brigade practicing its amphibious specialties in the widely separated areas of California, Taiwan and the Philippines. Bewartiot booby traps The increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 meant the WASHINGTON, D.C. - The be used as compared to that of a deployment of the Brigade's ground U.S. State Department has in its letter. units. They traveled first to Okinawa, possession an instruction manual Booby trapping mail has been then to Vietnam. Once in Vietnam, entitled "Sabotage and Mining," issued adopted by this organization as their the units were detached from the by the Popular Front For The standard method of sabotage and Brigade. Liberation Of Palastine General murder. In July of that year, the 1st Command (PFLP -GC) describing a Should anyone encounter 'nail Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment new method of Booby Trapping mail. resembling the foregoing description, arrived at Kaneohe as the 4th Marine one should avoid handling it, evacuate replacement, and in December, Marine The booby trapped article is a the area immediately and notify the O'Wives present Fighter/Attack Squadron-212 became rolled up journal which when opened nearest bomb disposal team. 'Hello Broadway the first Brigade unit to return to sets off an explosive charge. The No mail booby trapped in this Kaneohe from Vietnam. terrorists like this method, since a manner has been encountered so far. CAMP SMITH - Reservations town" on Feb. 16. Your ticket by mail reservations will be sold at the The 5th Marines were then much larger quantity of explosives can But be on the alert. are now being accepted for Mardi Gras chairman is Mrs. Richard Gleeson, Pearl Harbor Officers' Club on Feb. 15 1973, ordered to Vietnam in February 1966. Hello Broadway, a musical 2254 Aumakua St., Pearl City, and from 1 I :30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. With their departure from Kaneohe production being presented by the reservations should be mailed no later This program will start with Marine Corps Air Station, there were Awa Lau Wahine - Navy, Marine Corps than Feb. 1. no-host cocktails in the Garden Lanai no ground elements with the Brigade Oily problem eliminated by and Coast Guard Officers' Wives' Club. It is encouraged that commands continued on page 3 until June when the 1st Battalion, It will be held at the Pearl Harbor attend in groups; however, individual Officers' Club. reservations will also be accepted. The music is arranged by John Every effort will be made to seat using a little grease Ingram, CINCPACFLT band director. groups as per their requests. elbow Mr. Ingram and' the CINCPACFLT Checks or money orders should by LCpI Greg Gerding combo will perform the musical score. be made payable to "Awa Lau The theme "Hello Broadway" Wahine" and those making K-BAY One hundred Marines of the 1st Marine Brigade here participated in was conceived by Ginny Chewning, - reservations are asked to enclose clean-up operations on the eastern shoreline of Oahu this week. '73 Mardi Gras producer, who was self-addressed, stamped envelopes. On Monday evening, the high tide brought an oil slick. As the high tide left, "searching for entertainment with This will insure that your tickets are crude oil remained on the beaches. universal appeal." received promptly and with no According to Coast Guard Lieutenant R. Werner, Chief of the Marine Marine officers inconvenience. and their guests Tickets will be mailed Environmental Protection Branch, 14th District Staff and in charge of clean-up are urged to attend this "night on the approximately Feb. 5. Tickets not sold opetations, "The oil came from the leakage of a passing ship several hundred miles away." He added, "The oil had been in the ocean for a week or more and we were just unfortunate that the oil just didn't pass on by the island." fah Marines raked up the oil on Tuesday and Wednesday past the high tide mark for civilian maintenance crews to pick up. Lt. Werner said there should be no A new plane for the Corps problem in having all of the beaches cleaned up within a couple of days. WASHINGTON D.0 - It looks He is the AV-8A project officer here, like an instant replay of itself. assisted by Lt. Bob Temme, USN. There it is, a sleek little jet The VSTOL (Vertical and Short zapping into the Point Mugu airfield Take Off and Landing) ability of the landing pattern at 350 miles per hour. jet--and the fact that it can fly Suddenly it stops mid-air and backwards and ascend or descend many capabilities, take-off, during hovers like a helicopter. rapidly through clouds--seem to be The AV-8A demonstrates one of its the vertical Richardson) Even veteran pilots here blink fool-the-eye tricks. a recent training exercise at Bouge Field, N.C. (photo by MSgt herb their eyes and shake their heads in But Royal Air Force squadrons amazement as the Marine Corps' who have been using the Hawker AV-8A "jump jet" turns 360 degrees Siddeley attack aircraft for several in the air in less than five seconds. years know the practical applications Then it sets down in a spot of such capabilities. xme alto: about as wide as your front yard--75 feet. VSTOL aircraft can use a variety Nearby on the runway are of land and sea bases. Those on land go several more of the aircraft, part of the need little preparation, so the jet can The first to call, first to nation's only AV-8A squadron, Marine land on grass, tarmac, dirt, gravel, ice Attack Squadron (VMA) 513 out of or snow. This allows bases (with CAMP SMITH - First Marine is good for one member of the Army, Beaufort, S.C. greater concealment) closer to ground corporal and below or Sailor in the one Navy, one Air Force, one Marine For six weeks (Aug.
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