Posted on Aug 9, 2017
Marines launch Operation Cochise - Aug 09, 1967 - HISTORY.com
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Exactly two years later, SP5 Mark Kuzinski, I enlisted on 9 August 1969 in Jacksonville, FL. Although 1LT Frank Bray administered the oath of enlistment, CW4(ret), then SGM Pete Morris was my recruiter and did all the work to "enlist" me into the service. We are friends to this day.
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LTC Stephen C.
SSG William Jones, if any man sits at the right hand of God, it’s Pete Morris. He was a profoundly religious man. He never cursed (almost impossible in the Army). If you heard him say, “Now daggone it” people cleared a path, because that was as demonstrative as he would get. I never heard him raise his voice to me or any of the other lowly privates waiting to ship out to BCT and all that followed.
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SSG William Jones
LTC Stephen C.
What a great witness this man was for our Lord Jesus Christ!!! I am so glad that your paths crossed. What a blessing.
What a great witness this man was for our Lord Jesus Christ!!! I am so glad that your paths crossed. What a blessing.
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SP5 Mark Kuzinski
LTC Stephen C. - Thanks for posting this and may he Rest in Peace and May He Be Welcomed Home. Thanks again Stephen.
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Thanks SP5 Mark Kuzinski for reminding us that in early august 1967 the "First Marine Division launches Operation Cochise in the Que Son valley. Meanwhile, the First Cavalry Division continued with Operation Pershing, a major clearing operation in the Binh Dinh province designed to improve the security situation in support of the ongoing pacification effort."
Those two sentences summarize immense death and destruction.
Those two sentences summarize immense death and destruction.
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