Rita Tyler, Co-host at our Seattle 2024 Reunion, wrote and presented a presentation called “Home of the Free, Because of the Brave”. It was a very moving speech. Click on above picture to see video.
This video was written and recorded by US Army Major J. Billington.
In combat situations you return to the basics of survival: food, staying dry, and so forth. Food is a large aspect of life, especially when you spend days on end eating out of these little green cans with dates on them going back to the Korean War. Also, on extended operations in the field, we were particularly dependent upon helicopter resupply missions that were…
Captain Drez grabs the mic and begins to speak some profound words about some of the history of H 2/5 in the Vietnam War in 1968 during our reunion in Branson 2023. You will want to listen to his short talk about H 2/5 “In the History Books” of the Marine Corps.

