North Korea during the Olympic “lovefest” and Boeing in China: Grant Newsham
Grant Newsham
Defense Researcher
Col, USMCR (ret)
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1st Platoon, Charlie Company 1/5 knew nothing of urban fighting when they went to Hue in 1968, 1stLt Nick Warr USMC led them (PART 2)
Nick Warr
Nick Warr is an exception Marine. He fought in the Vietnam in 1968 including the Battle for Hue City. He has been an active member of the 1/5 alumni network, his has written extensively about his experience in Vietnam and has been part of the group that has raised money to fund the “5th Marines Vietnam Memorial” that will be dedicated at Camp San Mateo (home of the 5th Marines at Camp Pendleton), in the Memorial Garden there.
In Part 2 we discuss My Lai, the Burns/Novick PBS documentary “The Vietnam War” and the work Nick has done with a group of 5th Marine Vietnam veterans to build a memorial to the Marines and Sailors who fell in Vietnam as part of the 5th Marine Regiment, which will be dedicated this Memorial Day weekend.
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1st Platoon, Charlie Company 1/5 knew nothing of urban fighting when they went to Hue in 1968, 1stLt Nick Warr USMC led them (PART 1)
1stLt Nick Warr, USMC
Republic of Vietnam
1968
Nick Warr
Nick Warr is an exception Marine. He fought in the Vietnam in 1968 including the Battle for Hue City. He has been an active member of the 1/5 alumni network, his has written extensively about his experience in Vietnam and has been part of the group that has raised money to fund the “5th Marines Vietnam Memorial” that will be dedicated at Camp San Mateo (home of the 5th Marines at Camp Pendleton), in the Memorial Garden there.
In Part 1 we discuss his career and the fight in Hue.
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OCS and M&M stories: LtCol Charlie Neimeyer, USMC (ret)
LtCol Charlie Neimeyer, USMC (ret)
LtCol Charlie Neimeyer, USMC (ret) recently retired as the Director of the Marine Corps Historical Division. He joined us to discuss that work, but the segment got hijacked by OCS stories that were spawned by Peanut M&M’s.
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A MORNING IN THE MIDST OF HEROES: 77 Years of Valor on display at the 1st Marine Division Battle Colors Rededication
1st Marine Division Band
Battle Streamers being attached to the Division Battle Colors by the CG
Remarks by the CG of the 1st Marine Division, MajGen Eric Smith
1st Marine Division Association — Team Picture
Former Division CG MajGen Richard C. McMonagle, USMC (ret)
It’s not often that one feels small when you make your living in the media because you have “a voice,” but on Friday, February 2, 2018 at the Headquarters of the 1st Marine Division one could not help but feel insignificant. The Division rededicated its Battle Colors with the veterans who have written many of those chapters on hand. It was humbling to simply be in their midst.
As always, the Division Band entertained and one by one the honors accorded to the historic 1st Marine Division by virtue of its valor in combat were placed on the Division’s Battle Colors. Each streamer was brought to the Battle Colors by veterans of the Division, each escorted by a Marine currently serving in the Division. MajGen Eric Smith, the CG of the Division, spoke of the weight of the Division’s history and how mindful today’s 1st Division Marines are of the long shadow that is cast over them and how they strive to live up to the standards that the Division has written over the course of its 77 year history.
The “training highlight” of the day for this writer was to see the first Division Commander that I served under, MajGen Richard C. McMonagle, USMC (ret) and to stand at the position of attention in the midst of heroes, the Marines and Sailors who have written the incredible chapters in the history of the 1st Marine Division, to see them in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s proudly stand at attention or close to it as the Marines Hymn boomed in the Southern California air.
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