August 18 to 23 1965 7Th Regimental Landing Team Operation Starlite RVN. Infantry Units 3Rd BN 7Th Marines, 2Bn 4Th Marines, 3Rd Bn 3Rd Marines and supporting Marine Units. The senior leadership experience WW2 Okinawa and Korean War. An operation that was planed and executed in a compressed time period.

Only one book written that I know of (The Frist Battle Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam by Otto J Lehrack)

Now in my seventh decade I still think about it this time of the year.

We’re you in one of those outfits or
are you making an historical footnote? Anyhow Semper Fi

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Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
We’re you in one of those outfits or
are you making an historical footnote? Anyhow Semper Fi

I was part of a FO/AO team assigned to support the infantry units I was with 12Th marines field artillery. More or less I was making an historical foot note. Semper Fi

Thank you for your service Lowflash.

I was trapped inside a gun tub on my piece in the CG and never got to see the rounds fall. How cool that must have been for you as a forward observer!

"Artillery adds dignity, to what would otherwise be an ugly brawl" Fredrick the Great

Operation Starlite ended On yesterdays date August 23Rd. The aftermath of Viet-Nam from my viewpoint of that war was the high school I attended the classes 0f 1961,63,64,65 and 67 would have individuals KIA in Viet-Nam with the names listed on the Wall in Washington DC. As for Starlite the operation the youngest of us whom were there would now be in their seventh decade of life. In a decade or so those that participated will be gone from this place. Such is history!

F/O's didn't have a long life expectancy, glad you made it home. Semper Fi

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Originally posted by SSgt USMC/Vet:
F/O's didn't have a long life expectancy, glad you made it home. Semper Fi

The job of an FO was just that of a grunt with a radio antenna marking his position. And of course when everything turned to shit and the grunts got their head down, the FO's had to get theirs up. What could possibly go wrong?

Semper Fi, back atcha