Posted on Jan 5, 2018
Amphibious operations conducted in the Mekong Delta - Jan 05, 1967 - HISTORY.com
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Thanks SP5 Mark Kuzinski for reminding us of the days of amphibious operations in the water-logged Mekong River region of South Vietnam.
Operation Deckhouse V, marked the first time that U.S. combat troops were used in the Mekong Delta. On January 5, 1967, 1st Battalion, 9th U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Marine Brigade Force Bravo conducted amphibious operations in the Kien Hoa Province in the Mekong Delta, located 62 miles south of Saigon.
Body counts were daily occurrences as though bodies indicated victory or loss as opposed to the deaths of soldiers and marines.
Image: Photograph by PHC Robert D Moeser. Operation Deckhouse V series, circa January 1967; 1967-01 Marines unloading gun during operation Deckhouse - Photo by Larry Burrows
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Joshua Caldwell
Operation Deckhouse V, marked the first time that U.S. combat troops were used in the Mekong Delta. On January 5, 1967, 1st Battalion, 9th U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese Marine Brigade Force Bravo conducted amphibious operations in the Kien Hoa Province in the Mekong Delta, located 62 miles south of Saigon.
Body counts were daily occurrences as though bodies indicated victory or loss as opposed to the deaths of soldiers and marines.
Image: Photograph by PHC Robert D Moeser. Operation Deckhouse V series, circa January 1967; 1967-01 Marines unloading gun during operation Deckhouse - Photo by Larry Burrows
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. LTC Ivan Raiklin, Esq. Capt Seid Waddell Capt Tom Brown CW5 (Join to see) SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT MSG Andrew White SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright Cpl Joshua Caldwell
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All of that was going on, SP5 Mark Kuzinski, and I was sitting in class as a high school senior, still oblivious for the most part as to U.S. actions in Southeast Asia.
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Thanks for sharing history on this day SP5 Mark Kuzinski, the Amphibious operations conducted in the Mekong Delta .
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