MAKE A MEME View Large Image Operation Eagle Pull & Operation Frequent Wind (evacuation of Saigon), file 01.jpg en WYSWYG Blue Ridge at White Beach Okinawa He stated that when the battalion was alerted on 25 March 1975 I was instructed that my company would be ...
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Keywords: BR, Vietnam, 1975, Operation Eagle Pull & Operation Frequent Wind (evacuation of Saigon), file 01.jpg en WYSWYG Blue Ridge at White Beach Okinawa He stated that when the battalion was alerted on 25 March 1975 I was instructed that my company would be helilifted to White Beach at around 1400 for embarkation aboard the USS Blue Ridge for immediate departure to Da Nang where we would reinforce U S facilities We did embark on 25 March Blue Ridge did not get underway for Vietnam until 27 March 76 Marines and sailors hastily trained to prepare for the anticipated mass of humanity Crowd control evacuation procedures and a Vietnamese orientation course occupied the Marines' time on board ship Counterintelligence personnel briefed Marines in the problems of identifying and neutralizing saboteurs The interrogator-translator team gave a quick Vietnamese language orientation course Key Navy and Marine Corps officers and senior enlisted men made walkthroughs of the evacuation chain The versatile printing section on board the Blue Ridge reproduced thousands of signs in Vietnamese composed by the 17th ITF Captain Bushey's counterintelligence team prepared a simplified instruction card for the small unit leader that included basic Vietnamese phrases and human relations oriented do's and don'ts ' 77 https //en wikipedia org/w/index php title USS_Blue_Ridge_ LCC-19 oldid 611915045 2013-11-16 22 28 34 http //www marines mil/Portals/59/Publications/U S 20Marines 20in 20Vietnam_The 20Bitter 20End 201973-1975 20 20PCN 201900310900_1 pdf U S MARINES IN VIETNAM THE BITTER END 1973-1975 PD-USGov Uploaded with UploadWizard USS Blue Ridge LCC-19
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