His name was Dan Bullock. He was only 15 years old and he wanted to serve his country so badly that he broke into his sister's room, stole her pen, and forged his own birth certificate just to enlist in the Marines. And they believed him. On June 7th, 1969, Private First Class Dan Bullock was killed in a surprise enemy attack at an Hoa combat base
This guy named John has been coming into my work for years. I told him I was going to Vietnam next week with my girlfriend. He told me he was over there during the fall of Saigon and helped orphan babies get on evacuation planes and helicopters as a Marine. I told him I was one of those babies. He looked at me, his eyes started to well up and said
I got to tell you, you know, it was a difficult time for me because I felt a little guilty because I didn't really feel like I deserved it, but all of the men and women that served, that I get to do something like this, it's a wonderful day and I'm honored. Well, you were so stoic in these images, and I was watching this and thinking, I wonder if h
You've never heard of the most lethal combat team in the Vietnam War, and that's exactly the point. Over 10 months, six Marines deep in the Vietnamese jungle racked up 477 confirmed enemy kills and captures. Called in artillery strikes on entire North Vietnamese battalions, ambushed supply routes, and extracted intel that saved hundreds of American
of an entire province. They even invented the spy rig, a rope system that let helicopters snatch them straight up through triple canopy jungle with no landing zone. The enemy would be searching the ground while the Marines were already 200 feet in the air. So what happened to this unstoppable unit? They got disbanded. Not because they failed, not b
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