| Last Modified: 2003-12-06 | Entry ID: 463  |
Ed Doyne  | Duty Status:Retired Rank: LtCol    |
| Location: Seattle, WA 98106 | Country: USA |
| MOS: 0302 Served:0 | Vietnam Dates: 12/68 to 07/70 SN: 0 |
| Boot Camp:MCRD Parris Island | Grad:Oct 66 Platoon: 2074 |
| Stationed: 3rd Bn, 1st Mar, 1st Marine Division, Kilo Co, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd plt. |
| Interests: Veteran Issues, Games, Internet, Sports. |
| Comments:Update:2003-12-06-My father whom I made mention of in the next to the last paragraph in the message below, passed away in 2003.--Hundreds of memories. Plt Cdr, Co Cdr & XO during 69. Originally went in-country to D/1/1 in December 68. Missed Bob Hope show and lasted for 21 days. I was wounded during a Co. size Opn into Dodge City where Meade River had been run & evaced to Guam. Returned to Danang after a month & worked in 1st Div COC as a watch officer. Joined 3/1 from the Div. CP after No Name Island. SSgt Rodreguiz was our Plt Sgt. Capt Tom ("Be flexible & keep your sense of humor.") Hobbs was the CO. Had all 3 plts at one time or another, then CO after Tom left. Dropped back to XO when a Capt Bihler (I have a picture of him somewhere sitting on the LZ with a K-bar in his teeth) arrived. My cousin, Bill Merrill, was in Chuck Courser's plt. in India co. and was killed right before Thanksgiving. I left early and went home on extention leave for his funeral and then returned to the 1st MAW HQ as Tango Security Officer for 6 more months. Left country in July of 1970.
A young man from Iowa, Cpl Hoesing was my Radio Operator. Pappy was our mail man. Rick Mahony was the FAC, Lt Gregory was our FO. JC Martin was one of the Plt Radio Operators. Those names and memories are buried really deep and need some prodding to get them all out. I keep saying I am going to write a book....someday....anyone interested in a group effort?
I started out enlisted at PISC in 66. Became a bomb humper in the 2ndMAW. Made sgt. and got selected for OCS. Went straight from TBS to VN, after leave, with a whole plane load (707) of 2nd Lts, 1-1stLT, and 1 Capt.
I stayed in the Corps and retired in Seattle WA in 1987. Working almost as hard now as VN, but not getting shot at now. I still keep a helmet and flac jacket at my desk as a reminder of how tough things were then, and how it really isn't that tough now. Looking forward to having the time to slow down and do more of this before we all get as old as my Dad (a WWII vet who is dying with cancer and alsheimers) and can't remember anything or any one.
Would love to hear from those who walked the same trails and listened for the same mail calls.
Semper Fi, Ed. Served with Kilo Co 3/1 from 12/68 to 07/70 to 1st, 2nd, & 3rd plt, CO & XO. |
