Where did the Marines first go ashore in Viet Nam?
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if i remember correctly it was Da Nang.
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I can help with part of it - the last section I will leave to my Marine brethren to chime in. It refers to his unit of assignment. A "Weapons Company" was a unit that specialized in a particular heavy weapon (during Korea it would likely be mortars or a recoiless rifle). So...he was assigned to the 1st Weapons Company, under the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division. This is where things get tricky - that is an Army designation. Marines are assigned to MEU's (Marine Expeditionary Unit) and MEF's (Marine Expeditionary Force), but it is certainly possible that he was a detached element. Now for the Tr Bn TCI - I am going to guess that this is a location. Something like Tran Binh. If noone here can specify this - check your Dad's service record - his duty assignments and basic locations will be listed. You can then search on line for veterans groups who served there and I bet you will find a host of his former comrades. Good Luck!
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i have.  26Th MEU.  we patrolled the Mediterranean.  helped out a bit in Bosnia back in 1995. we were part of the IFOR.  I loved it. I loved being a Marine.  wish i would have stayed.
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It was fought on the land, air, and lesser so, at sea.\nThe North Vietnamese had small airforce and navy. The N. Vietnamese fought a guerilla warfare the majority of the time. The French, and then the Americans had to adjust to jungle fighting that was sumwhat unique in their country.\nIt also became a phyalogical battle of stalemate and grueling conditions for the americans and their foes.
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The Marine Corps\n\nFirst to Fight, last to leave, the Marine Corps has the honor of being the premiere fighting force.  Marines pride themselves on Espirit de Corps - the Spirit of the Corps, and honor their traditions and history beyond any other branch of the military. The Marines were born November 10, 1775 in Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.  (Figures we'd be born in a bar)  \n\nMarines are hard fighters, hard drinkers, earning the name 'Teufel Hunden' or Devil Dogs from the Germans during the Battle of Baleau Woods during WWII.   Marines are also called 'Leathernecks' from the strip of leather worn across the throat during colonial times, to protect their throats from sabers.  The red stripes on the sides of trousers worn by NCO's (non-commission officers) are called 'Blood stripes' in honor of the blood shed by other Marines.\n\nAnd how do I know the Marines are the best?  Any Marine could recite to you everything I just wrote!\n\nSemper Fi!
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Marines.  Hands down.
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The Marines were part of a peace organization. They were caught in the middle of it all when they bombed the barracks killing our great men. I will never forget the date of Oct 22,1983 for I left for basic training Oct 23,1983. I was signed in on a Delayed Enlistment Program(DEP) that I signed while still in high school in April of 1983.
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The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War (also known colloquially as Vietnam or Nam as well as the American War in Vietnam) 1 was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China, and the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably Australia, Korea, and the United States. US combat troops were involved from 1965 until the official withdrawal in 1973. The war ended on April 30, 1975 with the military conquest of the South by the North.\n\nSummary\nThe Vietnam War began after a very large-scale division of Vietnam into two countries with a de-militarized zone (DMZ) between them. As Maurice Larkin notes, crumbling under the economic strain of the war and fearful of the tide of opinion (which had now turned decisively against further fighting for control in Indochina), the French, under Pierre Mendès-France, simply 'passed the parcel bomb' on to the Americans, slipping out of the back door, so to speak. The Vietnam War ostensibly began as a civil war between feuding governments. Being Western-oriented and perceived as less popular than Hồ Chí Minh's northern government, the South Vietnamese government fought largely to maintain its governing status within the partitioned entity, rather than to "unify the country" as was agreed to at the Geneva Conference. Fighting began in 1957 with the U.S. and Soviet-Chinese involvement, and would steadily escalate from there. The conflict spilled over into the neighboring countries of Cambodia and Laos. North Vietnam did not respect the independence or borders of either country.\n\nThe Geneva partition was not a natural division of Vietnam and was not intended to create two separate countries. But the South government, with the support of the United States, blocked the Geneva scheduled elections for unification. In the context of the Cold War, and with the recent Korean War as a precedent, the U.S. had feared that a unified Vietnam would result in a Communist government under Hồ Chí Minh, either freely or fraudulently.\n\nThe South Vietnamese government and its Western allies portrayed the conflict as based in a principled opposition to communism —to deter the expansion of Soviet-based control throughout Southeast Asia, and to set the tone for any likely future superpower conflicts. The North Vietnamese government and its Southern affiliated organization (NLF) viewed the war as a struggle to reunite the country and to repel a foreign aggressor —a virtual continuation of the earlier war for independence against the French. While North Vietnam used nationalist propaganda, its party doctrine denounced the very concept of nationalism and any form of unity other than rule by the party.\n\n\n\n\n\nFrance had gained control of Indochina in a series of colonial wars beginning in the 1840s and lasting until the 1880s. At the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919, Hồ Chí Minh requested participation in order to arrange more freedom for the Indochinese colonies. His request was rejected, and Indochina's status as a colony of France remained unchanged. During World War II, Vichy France had collaborated with the occupying Imperial Japanese forces. Vietnam was under effective Imperial Japanese control, as well as de facto Japanese administrative control, although the Vichy French continued to serve as the official administrators until 1944. In that year, the Japanese overthrew the French and humiliated the colonial officials of the state in front of the Vietnamese population. The Japanese then began to encourage nationalist activity among the Vietnamese. Late in the war, Japan granted Vietnam nominal independence. After the Japanese surrender, Vietnamese nationalists expect to take control of the country and organize a socialist dictatorship. The Japanese army in Indochina attempted to assist the Viet Minh in their goal by keeping French soldier
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Yahoo Search Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. That might help. You'll find out more doing it that way instead of this Yahoo Answers because all you'll get is a bunch of BS.
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Marine Corp has no bases in Louisiana. \n\nNavy has one in New Orleans, and Army has one in Fort Polk. \n\nAir Force has one in Barksdale.
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Why don't you post your question on some Thai boards. I was stationed in  Asia in the 70's and my wife is from Khorat. My understanding is that the Records center had a major fire and lost alot of records in the late 60's. BTW my memory is of Khorat having USMC and AF. \n\nAlot of former military now live in Udon Thani, Nong Khai and Khorat. try your post on pattayasecrets.com or other Thai board were Americans and ex military post.
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As a recent former Marine, I can tell you that 'boucoup' (sp?) is used sometimes in the Corps, but mostly by the older Marines.    Its a French word used by Vietnamese and picked up by the leathernecks who went to Vietnam and came back alive.  Vietnam was formerly French IndoChina in the colonial era, which is why the Vietnamese were fighting them in the 1st place.  Through typical Washington brilliance, 'they' (the French) became 'us' (the Americans) after 'they' got their collective ass handed to them by those Hard-As-Nails NVA Soldiers at Dien-ben-fo (sp?).
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The American government decided that the Communism that was spreading into Viet Nam from China was unacceptable. They went in to try to stop it. The south of the country sided with the Americans in wanting to have democratic government. The north wanted to be Communist like their Chinese cousins. The war was fought. America lost and needed to evacuate quickly before being overrun by communist forces in 1975, abandoning their former allies (only SOME of whom were evacuated with them). South Viet Nam was converted to communism and absorbed into one country.\n\nAny of this sound familiar?
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I was in the Navy on an amphibious assault ship (an LHA). When we went on our 6 month deployment to the western Pacific (WestPac), we would embark about 2000 Marines. About 2/3 of the Marines didn't have a job to do on the sip, so they just worked out and used all our fresh water. \n\nAnyway, someone one day put a sign up on a fan room door stating there would free ice cream at 1300. At 1:00, you should have seen the line of Marines waiting for their ice cream.
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The first response is correct, Marines from the Ist, 2nd and 3rd (Okinawa) Marine divisions made up most of the infantry units in Nam.  A few brigades were formed as well.  Remember, during the Vietnam era, the US drew from its existing, active units.  There was a draft during that time, and people were drafted on an as needed basis.\n\nToday, we draw from citizen soldier units which are not nearly as effective.  There training is limited, their espree d corps is also limited as is their desire to even be there.  This whole thing about a volunteer army is sheer nonsense.  Ninety percent of these folks would have gotten out before 9/11, had they known then what they know today.
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The place in Vietnam where US soldiers who had been taken as prisoner of war were held.
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Vietnam was a French colony until WWII when it was captured by the Japanese. The main resistance group which eventually saw off the Japanese without Allied help was the Viet-minh, led by Ho Chi Minh. France tried to regain control after the war but was finally defeated at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The Viet-minh communists were prevented from taking over the whole country by US and French-backed forces. The country was partitioned into North (Communist) Vietnam and South (anti-Communist) Vietnam.\n\nThe people of the south had little sympathy for their foreign-controlled government and, according to Richard Nixon himself, 80% of them supported the Viet-cong who wanted to unite with the Communist North. After a protracted war of intervention the US withdrew, defeated, in the late 1970s.