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...looked as though we were in for a bigger war, with the North Vietnamese coming in, not just the guerrillas." With the 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division, he landed in Viet Nam in November 1967 and served six months as a machine-gunner in "Leatherneck Square" adjoining the DMZ. Lance Corporal Coats no longer remembers the date when he was wounded more precisely than "the last couple of days in May 1968." "We'd just cleared a bunker complex and were stationary. Early in the afternoon, a barrage came in. A rocket round hit about...
...year veteran, Cushman at 56 has the physical presence of a Leatherneck on a recruiting poster-barrel-chested, hair closely cropped, posture ramrod-straight. His distinguished fighting record reaches from Pearl Harbor to Viet Nam. In a time of cerebral officers, he views the world through the eyes of a rough Marine combat officer...
Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...
Krulak was taken off Choiseul in 1943 aboard a PT boat skippered by a young Navy lieutenant named John F. Kennedy. Two decades later, President Kennedy chose Krulak as a special adviser on guerrilla war in Viet Nam. The leatherneck's rosy report, based on a 1963 inspection trip, contrasted with a State Department official's gloomy prognosis shortly before President Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination. "Were you two gentlemen," asked Kennedy, "in the same country...
...sentenced to 45 days' restriction to quarters, a $20 fine and reduction to private for disobeying orders. Nor did the prospect of this punishment induce Mary Elizabeth to resume soldierly ways or to put on her Marine uniform again. When her case is finally reviewed, the lady Leatherneck, who enlisted straight from school in Grand Junction, Colo., hopes to be reduced to the rank of civilian...