Henry Gleason

Marine Corps | Mortarman

Rixford, Pa.

Dates of Service: no date specified

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Jul 1968 - Jun 1972

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DC Silent Drill, 'A' Co 1/ 5,60MM | Marine Barracks, DC, Viet Nam

MOS 60mm Mortars ( while one year in VN), trained on infantry crew served weapons (3.5 Rockets, Flame Thrower, M60 Machine Gun, 40mm Grenade Launcher, 81mm Mortars, 4.2 Inch Mortars, etc.) While in D.C. I was on MCI Company's First Silent Drill Team. Helicopter Assault Team while on the Med Cruise with the 6th Fleet for 6 Months in the Mediterranean Sea.

Deployments

(3 years, 6 months)

Nov 1971 - Jun 1972

6th Fleet, Mediterranean Sea

Squad Leader ( not a happy Marine at this point in my life, don't remember much, drunk all the time I guess ). I know i was shipped over to the Med on a cold as hell C-130. We stopped oved in England somewhere and we got drunk. Flew down to Naples, Italy where I joined the fleet , assigned to the USS INCHON ( a smaller flat top)

Feb 1970 - Oct 1971

Marine Barracks, 8th and I Sts Se, D.C.

Instructor MCI Co. (Marine Corps Institute) ( grade lessons sent in from courses Marines are taking thru out the corps); member of the MCI Silent Drill Team (the Second Drill Team at the Barracks), performed at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Cemetery on Tuesday evenings and again at the Official Lowering of the American Flag - with Double Bugle Taps .

Jan 1969 - Jan 1970

Vietnam War

60mm Mortars (ammo humper, A-gunner, Gunner, Gun Team Leader, Mortar Platoon Leader); Attend Officer's Call for the Day's missions, assign missions to each gun team, order supplies, distribute supplies and hold mail call, set up Command Post Radio Watch for the night's watch

Personal Information

Current Location

Rixford, Pa.

Home Town

Wellsboro, PA

Interests

coal strip mines in pa.as an oiler on a dragline and run d-9 dozer and run triple engine double pan scrappers and d-9 dozers in wyoming near hanna wy. Fishing

Fishinghike/walki used to hunt Transportation logo

Transportationtravel/sight seevisit rocky mountains again. i am now handicapped w/emphysema and on oxygen 24/7.work w/wood