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Author: John Barber
John “J.D.” Barber, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, is a proud Marine Corps veteran who served from 1967 to 1971. He flew with HMM-263 (EG-11 crew chief) during his Vietnam combat tour and is a past president and long-time member of the USMC Combat Helicopter & Tiltrotor Association.
Boot Camp at PI, 1967: The Hell Before Vietnam
At Parris Island, I was in First Battalion. The First and Second Battalions lived in WWII era,…
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