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Enemy Deot! Top 900 In• Ops Lrt! Dj, PFC Enemy Deot! Top 900 In• Ops lrt! Dj, PFC. JOHN F. CLARK (Boston, Mass.) aims in on an enemy target as Pfc. Tom G. Coxey (Lilttle­ ton, Colo.) adjusts the 81mm mortar tube for a fire mission. The two H&S Co. 1/4 Marines operate from FSB Neville, northwest of Vandegrift Combat Base. (Photo'by Sgt. Ken Corbett) By Sgt. Bruce Smith and ssgt G. E. Brown DONG HA - Operation Utah Mesat a joint Ameri­ can and Army of the Re­ public of Vietnam search and clear operation, ended July 9. The allied thrust into the territory south of Vol. V, No. 29 III Marine Amphibious Force, Vietnam July 18, 1969 the old Khe Sanh combat base accounted for 309 NY A killed since it began June 11. The 9th Marines, participating in their last operation in RVN before leaving for Okinawa, Pllllnloms Cloul joined elements of the U.S. Army 1st Brigade, 5th 'Infantry Div. (Mech.), and two elements of the U.S. Army 1st Regt. to form Joint Task Force Guadal­ canal. NVA, j1-A' Guns At the outset of the operation, Charlie Co., 1/9 and Kilo Co., 3/9 By Sgt. John Tolarchyk coming in from the north rather both had significant contact. Af­ than the south to keep the ene­ ter a squad-sized patrol had. DAN A N G - Attacking my guessing." countered an enemy ambush, through a hail of enemy fire, two Marine F-4B Phantom jets Bryan, his Phantom armed the remainder of Charlie Co. with a 20mm gun pod, released joined in, and with fixed-wing recently killed six North Viet­ namese soldiers, destroyed their all his bombs on the 3rd pass. air and artillery support, ac­ He then streaked high into the counted for 35 NVA dead. antiaircraft weapons and left the sky and began an almost ver­ Kilo Co. got into the action enemy position in shambles. tical dive on the enemy, firing when a night ambush team Keeping the enemy off guard the 20mm cannon as he closed foiled the enemy's plan to by changing the direction of at­ on the target. With the enemy launch a surprise ground attack. tack several times, the Phan­ fire suppressed by Bryan, the After initiating contact at the toms returned to the Da Nang (Continued on Back Page) ambush site, the "C" Co. Ma­ air base unscathed after braving rines moved back within their the heavy enemy fire four times. battalion perimeter. The NVA "We were scrambled off Ma­ followed and the ensuing battle rine Fighter Attack Squadron lasted three hours. The enemy 542's standby 'h 0 t pad' at 1 40 More' fled at dawn, leaving behind 29 p.m.," said Capt. Kenneth R. dead. Burns (Salt Lake City, Utah), a As the operation moved into radar intercept officer. "About its final stages the action de­ five minutes after we got the creased. On July 4, Golf Co. 2/9 word, we were airborne and Zapped; discovered a large bunker com­ headed for the target, 35 miles plex which had been destroyed south of Chu Lai." by artillery the previous night. The flight leader, Capt. Fred­ A fresh grave with three NVA THE RIGORS of combat show as Leathernecks of "C" Co., 1/26, erick T. Bryan (Watertown, VuGiaR. bodies and blood trails through­ return to their command post after -a patrol. The Marines are Mass.) contacted the aerial ob­ out the area indicated that the rnoting out enemy units on Barrier Island, 20 miles south of Da server about 20 miles from the By Pfc. Romeo Garza (Continued on Back Page) Nang. (Photo by Sgt. Mike Detherage) target. "He reported that an element DA NANG-"We've kill­ ../ of the U.S. Army's Americal ed over 40 enemy in the Div. was in contact with an NYA two weeks that we spent OIl-­ Veteran of Two Wars force," explained Bryan. "The the north side of the Vu fire fight was just north of a small airfield, so we had to be Gia River bordering the on the lookout for helicopters 'Arizona Territory,''' said and small fixed-wing aircraft." Capt. Brian Fagan (352 As the Phantoms arrived "on Salina Ct., Vista, Calif.), "and station," two Marine A-4 Sky­ we haven't lost one man." Thrash New 1st Wing CO hawks were making ' their last Delta Co., 1st Bn., 7th Marines strafing run on the target. When conducting search and clear op­ By Col. Joe Vaiksnis fellow Marines . despite the contributions to our efforts to­ they completedl their last strike, erations along the Vu Gia River aggravations of weather and the ward the advancement of free­ their controller banked into a 16 miles southwest of here, en­ DA NANG - Maj. Gen. Wil­ constraints of logistics." Gener­ dom in Southeast Asia. He cited dive marking the target with a countered some stiff enemy re­ liam G. Thrash assumed com­ al Quilter arrived in Vietnam in 1st Wing's "professional atti­ smoke rocket. sistance during a two-week peri­ mand of the 1st Marine Aircraft June 1968. tude, valor and combat effec­ Following close behind the od. Wing, the Marine Corps' largest Said Lt. Gen. Henry W. Buse, tiveness of which your country small observation aircraft, the "We were running squad and air wing, during change of com­ and Cor p s are justifiably Phantom pilots pushed their air­ platoon-size patrols mostly along mand ceremonies July 11, re­ CG, FMFPac, " ... you have my a p pre cia t ion and c 0 n­ proud." craft into a dive. the river," said Capt. Fagan. lieving Maj. Gen. Charles J. gratulations for your admirable After graduating from the "On the first run I could see a "We were also searching the Quilter. performance of a vital and' high­ Georgia School of Technology in lot of muzzle flashes coming area for bunker and tunnel com­ Gen. Quilter has been reas­ ly responsible task." The gener­ 1939 with a bachelor of science from the enemy position, so I plexes. signed to Headquarters Marine al said Quilter's excellent judg­ degree, Gen. Thrash was com­ asked the controller for a head­ "We stayed away from the Corps, Washington, D.C. ement, leadership and unswerv­ missioned a second lieutenant. ing change to keep the NV A open areas such as the rice pad­ Gen. Leonard F. Chapman ing devotion were "tangibly re­ He served his first tour with guessing where we were coming dies and open fields beyond the Jr., CMC, commended Gen. flected in Wing's combat per­ the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in from next," said Bryan. river. We concentrated more on Quilter for his "effective lead­ formance and contributions to 1942. Operating in the Pacific, The second strike direction the treelines, where we could ership," saying that the men of the cause of freedom." he earned the Distinguished Fly­ was at a different angle from move without being spotted. 1st MAW "have been resource­ LtGen. Herman Nickerson, ing Cross and five Air Medals. the first. "The controller said "The company ran a lot of ful, courageous and quick to re­ commanding general, III MAF, During World War II he saw ser- we were still taking heavy fire, night patrols that were quite ef­ spond in operations with their praised Quilter's "outstanding (Continued on Back Page) so we did a pattern reversal - (Continued on Back Page) July 18, 1969 Page 2 SEA TIGER FROM CG, ~' MAF If You Should But Don't Helping Them They Could But Won't Ue'rp TLem,re II~elr Nobody Does. Just the other guy. But suppose In ma~y contest.ed cases t.he courts h~ve held n ~ 1J I n ~ I 1r , ~ you were to die while in the military service. that a ,:",ill referrmg to children, relatIves or Do you know who your heirs are? other heIrs served well enough to show that the testator had his children in mind. If the testator In the 20 June issue of the Sea Tiger, I said that we have three Who will receive any money due you from gives these persons a nominal amount, even one main tasks facing us in I Corps, which are all facets of the One salary or annual leave? Who will receive your dollar, or intentionally disinherits them, as a rule life insurance? War we are fighting here. These are: first, to conduct c·ambat they will have no claim to the estate. A will One method for deciding these vital questions need not necessarily leave property to a child, operations; second, to assist in the improvement and moderniza­ is the designation of a beneficiary on your emer­ though to do so may prevent lawsuits. tion of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF); and gency data form in your personnel file. However, Some persons draft their own wills. 'rhese third, to pacify the countryside. I want to talk to you now about even though it is a requirement, most personnel "holographic" wills are often contested because tbis third task, pacificati-on. fail to keep this emergency data form up to date. a homemade will often is deficient in complying But the best way to assure that your heirs re­ with laws regarding the mention of children. In Pacification is an important word, as well as an unavoidable ceive their inheritance, according to your desire, one case the testator failed to mention a child, subject in any popular discussion of Vietnam. Yet, I believe is through a properly executed will. but said that "anyone who may contest this will" that many Americans, here as well as at home, do not understand Some factors to keep in mind when making a would receive one dollar.
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