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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.
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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.
During the Vietnam conflict, there were no individual personal cellular or landline telephones available for soldiers or sailors to use for calling family members back home. To address this, United States MARS (Military Affiliate Radio Service) stations from all branches of the service, Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, were deployed throughout Vietnam. The MARS system offered soldiers and sailors…
The Hotel 2/5 Academy Awards is a periodic event celebrating reunion awards conferred by the Hotel 2/5 Academy’s Board of Governors. Hum, you might be wondering, who the heck is on this Board of Directors? Well, it’s only me! (Larry Tyler) So let’s get on with it. And now, (big drum roll . . .) the Hotel 2/5 Academy Awards…
News Flash: Hotel 2/5 Vietnam Veterans receive Republic of Vietnam Medal & Certificate at 2022 Dayton Reunion Officers of Hotel 2/5 Reunion, present at the reunion, Capt. Ron Drez, Lt Col Tom Keene, Lt Col Gerald Inman, and Lt Col Bernie Stafford presented a beautiful Recognition of Service Certificate and a Republic of Vietnam Service Medal pin to all those…
Larry Tyler presented the Navy Corpsman Lapel Pin (Gold) and the Navy Corpsman Hat Patch to Doc Joe Sonderman and Dennis Noah at our Branson, MO 2023 reunion. The citation reads as follows: During the Vietnam War 10,000 Navy Hospital Corpsmen served with their Marine brothers. 645 of them were killed in action (KIA), and one-third were wounded in action…