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Robert Caleb Potter: Photo's

Marine Corps

Off to join the Marines, Feb, 1966
Paris Island Photo
We were usually standing at attention with our heels on those lines while in the squad bay.
My DI's at Parris Island, (l to r) Sgt's Kurtz, Parnell, Coffman and Christian
I was there in Feb/Mar 1966
Graduation Day at Paris Island. I'm on the left in this old faded photo
1/3 motto; "Fortune Favors the Barave"
Viet Cong prisoners, DaNang, 1966
DaNang, 1966. Taken before I converted my tee shirts to green.
1967
My Unit( Alpha Co 1/3) lost 14 men that night
Company Commander Capt Jordan in the field, 1967
The USS Okinawa LPH 3. My unit ran operations off of this ship from Jan to Sept 1967
CH 36's on the deck of USS Okinawa, 1967, photo courtesy Cpl Don Bumgarner
Marine sleeping quarters aboard the USS Okinawa
Working through thick jungle terrain, 1967. Photo courtesy of Sgt Del Lagarza, 1st Bn, 3rd Mar.
My unit was designated SLF Alpha and flew off the USS Okinawa
The boys of Company A, 1/3. This photo was taken at the 7th Engineers complex in DaNang just before I left RVN.
Old friend Steve Gilgoff in the squad bay at Henderson Hall. Gotta love the Dress Blues with shorts.
Main Gate, Henderson Hall, Headquarters Marine Corps, Arlington VA. This is where they send me after Nam (dirty trick) Spit Shine Central. Actually had some great moments there.
Henderson Hall, Headquarters Marine Corps. The Pentagon is just down the hill (center top) and Arlington Cemetary extends left of where the trees are (top left)
This is the replacement ID Card issued to me on the day my active enlistment ended. Still feeling the effects from a great party the night before.
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