Richard Carey formed leadership skills in Grove City and Columbus that would frame a distinguished 38-year military career ...

He later transferred to the Marine Corps, rising from sergeant ... and completing 204 combat sorties in Vietnam. An apex of his service was commanding the 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade during ...

Returning to the U.S., Leonard was serving as a drill sergeant at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, nearing retirement from the ...

In 1967, he attended Field Medical Service School at Camp LeJeune, NC, before deploying to South Vietnam as a Hospital Corpsman with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines (1/9), I Corps ...

Smigliani, 77, was deployed to Vietnam in ... a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1968 to 1970. He joined Operation Dewey Canyon with the Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment, which ...

To learn more about the Marines who served during the final days of the war in Vietnam, visit the Fall of Saigon Marines Association page and read “Last Men Out” by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

More than 30 Vietnam air cavalry veterans visited a contemporary air cavalry unit at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga.