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The Japanese officially surrendered to the Allies on board the battleship MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. With General Holland Smith transferred home in July 1945, the senior Marine Corps representative at the historic ceremony was LtGen Roy S. Geiger, who had succeeded Smith as Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. 5 September 1956: Eleven Marines from the 9th Marines, 3d Marine Division, stationed near Naha, Okinawa, drowned while swimming, from an undercurrent caused by Typhoon Emma. The violent storm, with 140 mph winds, struck the Philippine Islands, Okinawa, Korea, and Japan, causing some 55 deaths and millions of dollars in property damage. 6 September 1983: Two Marines were killed and two were wounded when rockets hit their compound in Beirut, Lebanon. Heavy fighting continued for the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit peacekeeping force in the area near their positions around the Beirut International Airport. 8 September 1942: On Guadalcanal, the 1st Raider Battalion and the 1st Parachute Battalion, supported by planes of MAG-23 and two destroyer transports, landed east of Tasimboko, advanced west into the rear of Japanese positions, and carried out a successful raid on a Japanese supply base. 11 September 1992: Hurricane Iniki devastated the island of Kauai in Hawaii in one of the worst storms the islands had seen in over a century. Marines of the 1st Marine Brigade based at Kaneohe Bay, spearheaded Operation Garden Sweep, the massive cleanup effort. 15 September 1950: The 3d Battalion, 5th Marines landed on Wolmi-do Island in Inchon Harbor and secured it prior to the main landing. The 1st Marine Division under the command of Major General Oliver P. Smith landed at Inchon and began the Inchon-Seoul campaign. 16 September 1814: A detachment of Marines under Major Daniel Carmick from the Naval Station at New Orleans, together with an Army detachment, destroyed a pirate stronghold at Barataria, on the Island of Grande Terre, near New Orleans. 18 September 1990: A new 40-acre training facility for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) was dedicated at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, by General Alfred M. Gray, Commandant of the Marine Corps. 20 September 1950: Marines of the 1st Marine Division crossed the Han River along a six-mile beachhead, eight miles northwest of Seoul, Korea. Five days later, the 1st and 5th Marines would attack Seoul and the city would be captured by 27 September. 24 September 1873: One hundred and ninety Marines and seamen from the USS PENSACOLA and BENICIA landed at the Bay of Panama, Columbia, to protect the railroad and American lives and property during the revolution. 27 September 1944: The American flag was raised over Peleliu, Palau Islands, at the 1st Marine Division Command Post. Although the flag raising symbolized that the island was secured, pockets of determined Japanese defenders continued to fight on. As late as 21 April 1947, 27 Japanese holdouts finally surrendered to the American naval commander on the scene. 30 September 1945: Marines of III Amphibious Corps, commanded by Major General Keller E. Rockey, began landing in North China to assist the Chinese Nationalist government in accepting the surrender of Japanese forces and repatriating Japanese soldiers and civilians. |
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| History Of Marine Corps Force Recon | |
| |  Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance was first conceived in 1954, at Marine Base Camp Pendleton, outside of San Diego, California, when an experimental recon team was formed. Three years later, that team merged with an existing amphibious reconnaissance company to form the 1st Force Reconnaissance Company. In 1958, half the Marines in 1st Force were removed from the Company and hauled over to the Eastern seaboard, forming the 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company. 1st Force supplemented Fleet Marine Force Pacific (FMFPac), while 2nd, Fleet Marine Force Atlantic (FMFLant). Force Reconnaissance received their baptism by fire during the Vietnam War, arriving first in 1965 and staying for five years. Forty-four Marines of 1st Force were killed or missing in action through the course of the war. After US withdrawal from Vietnam, 1st Force and 2nd Force were both deactivated in 1974, and the existing Force Marines were rolled into the non-Force 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion in order to maintain Marine Corps deep recon capabilities. However, the roll-in was never completed to a satisfactory condition, and 1st Force Reconnaissance was reactivated as an individual unit in 1986, and was later deployed in the Gulf War. Many Force Recon Companies are in existence today, and have been deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Posted by admin on Thursday 26 March 2009 - 18:52:52 | LAN_THEME_20 | |
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| Marines Awarded The Medal Of Honor During The Vietnam War | |
| | * PFC James Anderson, Jr. - 1967 - 3rd Marines * * Lance Corporal Richard A. Anderson - 1967 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * * PFC Oscar P. Austin - 1969 - 7th Marines * * Lance Corporal Jedh C. Barker - 1967 - 4th Marines * 1st Lieutenant Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. - 1965 - 9th Marines 2d Lieutenant John P. Bobo - 1967 - 9th Marines * PFC Daniel D. Bruce - 1969 - 5th Marines * * PFC Robert C. Burke - 1968 - 27th Marines * * PFC Bruce W. Carter - 1969 - 3rd Marines * PFC Robert M. Clausen, Jr. - 1970 - HMM-263 * PFC Robert L. Coker - 1969 - 3rd Marines * Staff Sergeant Peter S. Conner - 1966 - 3rd Marines * Colonel Donald G. Cook - 1964-67 - Sr. Marine Advisor * Lance Corporal Thomas E. Creek - 1969 - 9th Marines * Sergeant Rodney M. Davis - 1967 - 5th Marines * * Lance Corporal Emilio De La Garza, Jr. - 1970 - 1st Marines * * PFC Ralph E. Dias - 1969 - 7th Marines * * PFC Douglas E. Dickey - 1967 - 4th Marines * * Sergeant Paul H. Foster - 1967 - 4th Marines * 1st Lieutenant Wesley L. Fox - 1969 - 9th Marines * Sergeant Alfredo Gonzalez - 1968 - 1st Marines * * Captain James A. Graham - 1967 - 5th Marines * * 2nd Lieutenant Terrance C. Graves - 1968 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * Staff Sergeant Jimmie E. Howard - 1966 - 1st Recon. Battalion * Lance Corporal James D. Howe - 1970 - 7th Marines * * PFC Robert H. Jenkins, Jr. - 1969 - 3rd Recon. Battalion * * Lance Corporal Jose F. Jimenez - 1969 - 7th Marines * * PFC Ralph H. Johnson - 1968 - 1st Recon. Battalion * * LCpl Miguel Keith - 1970 - Combined Action Platoon 1-3-2 * Staff Sergeant Allan J. Kellogg, Jr. - 1970 - 5th Marines Captain Howard V. Lee - 1966 - 4th Marines Captain James E. Livingston - 1968 - 4th Marines * PFC Gary W. Martini - 1967 - 1st Marines * * Corporal Larry L. Maxam - 1968 - 4th Marines * Staff Sergeant John J. McGinty III - 1966 - 4th Marines Captain Robert J. Modrzejewski - 1966 - 4th Marines * Corporal William D. Morgan - 1969 - 9th Marines * * PFC Melvin E. Newlin - 1967 - 5th Marines * * Lance Corporal Thomas P. Noonan, Jr. - 1969 - 9th Marines * Corporal Robert E. O'Malley - 1965 - 3rd Marines * Lance Corporal Joe C. Paul - 1965 - 4th Marines * Corporal William T. Perkins, Jr. - 1967 - 3rd Marine Division * Sergeant Lawrence D. Peters - 1967 - 5th Marines * PFC Jimmy W. Phipps - 1969 - 1st Engineer Battalion Lance Corporal Richard A. Pittman - 1966 - 5th Marines Captain Stephen W. Pless - 1967 - VMO-6 * Lance Corporal William R. Prom - 1969 - 3rd Marines * * 1st Lieutenant Frank S. Reasoner - 1965 - 3rd Recon. Bn. * * Sergeant Walter K. Singleton - 1967 - 9th Marines * * Corporal Larry E. Smedley - 1967 - 9th Marines * * Lance Corporal Karl G. Taylor, Sr. - 1968 - 26th Marines * Captain M. Sando Vargas, Jr. - 1968 - 4th Marines * Lance Corporal Lester W. Weber - 1968 - 7th Marines * * Lance Coporal Roy M. Wheat - 1967 - 7th Marines * * PFC Dewayne F. Williams - 1968 - 1st Marines * PFC Alfred M. Wilson - 1969 - 9th Marines Lance Corporal Kenneth L. Worley - 1968 - 7th Marines | |
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| Marine Corps "Blood Stripe". | |
| | of certain traditional aspects. One frequent question raised is "Why do Marine officers and NCOs have red stripes on the blue uniform trousers?" According to legend this commemorates the courage and tenacious fighting of the men who battled before Chapultapec in the Mexican War and whose exploits added the phrase "From the Halls of Montezuma..." to the Marine Hymn. The red stripe on the trousers of all Marine officers and NCOs is said to symbolize the blood shed by these Marines of another century. | |
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Marine Of The Month | |
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Lance Cpl. James M. Gluff  20, of Tunnel Hill, Ga.; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Jan. 19 in Ramadi, Iraq, while conducting combat operations. |
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