SFC Robert Strickland

SFC Robert Strickland

Dates of Service: Apr 1971 - Jul 2006
RETIRED
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Joined USMC right out of high school. After completing training was assigned to Marine Detachment USS Ticonderoga CVS-14. Made a West-Pac voyage during the 1972 Easter Offensive in Vietnam to support combat operations against the communists with the Seventh Fleet. After leaving Marines I took a six year break, joined the Army Guard for eight and a half years and went back active duty Army AGR. Was preparing to retire and Big Army ordered me to make one more deployment. Served a year in Operation Iraqi Freedom, DEROS'd home, and retired.

Military Experiences

Oct 1998 - Jul 2006
111th Engineer Battalion
Apr 1972 - Aug 1973
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)
Fleet Marine/Marine Detachment

Deployments

(1 year, 6 months)
Dec 2004 - Dec 2005
Iraq ribbon
Apr 1972 - Aug 1972
Vietnam ribbon
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