Suzanne Sigona

I am looking on the website as I try to locate some guys for some other guys. I am a volunteer at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial - thus the nameSuzanne2Wall I see the photos from April 16, 1969 - One is of Kupka. Do you have any idea where you got that photo? I have tried to contact the family for one of the guys and the person I contacted was not receptive. I have in touch with the family of Karl Culp - KIA 4/16/69. I have direct contact with David Rivard, Duane Bourdo, Mark DiSantos, RogerCleland, Andy Andros.....- -- is Bob Hungate - and have information on others. Any ideas on how I find Doc Newton???

Dan Kellum

Bob Morris, this is Dan Kellum. I met you up at Col. Drumright's that Memorial Weekend so long ago now...before he passed. I'm researching background information on some Marine officers who I graduated from Quantico with and was wondering if you might be able to help me. Lt. Frank Porpotage, 1st Recon S-3A said you might be able to answer my picayune questions although this was a year before you got over The Pond.
Bob, I've been researching my C-69 grads who died in 1st Recon and was wondering if you might know very much about 2ndLt. Garry Schanck who died in a helicopter being shot down on June 21, 1969? I have the official report and even an eyewitness of the only Marine recon guy, Al Herlicka, inside the aircraft that survived...so I'm set on the particulars. Would you happen to recall Cpl. Evans, patrol leader for May Fly, first name or Doc Rucker's first name from Team Grade Level? He was the Doc survivor of Grade Level. The other piece of information I was seeking involved Schanck getting wounded sometime in April...according to Jim Webb with Schanck's sister saying that a Marine behind him stepped on a boobytrap putting some shrapnel in his back...Purple Heart # 1. The only problem is that in the CD records from the Marine Corps Archives I was only able to come up with 4 Patrol Debriefs involving Lt. Schanck...starting May 13, 1969...and the only casualties on those patrols besides the last fatal one was one that involved someone getting hit by debris thrown out by a helicopter settling down into a zone and another guy who sprained his ankle and had to be medevacked. No boobytraps. Can you shed any light on Lt. Schanck's wound? I know the S-3 Journals are not perfect for all the commands. I've scoured April 1969 twice and cannot find Schanck leading or participating in a patrol where a boobytrap was tripped...am I blind or overlooking him? Can you possibly shed some light on this wee bit of a picayune item? If I can't verify his 'wound', I will just plainly not mention it.
These are some more questions I had of Lt. Porpotage that maybe you could enlighten a dumb 2/1 ground-pounding officer of.....First off, which map coordinates' 1,000 meter square 2 alphabet letters best fits the area the June 21, 1969 incident took place AT, BT or ZC since the recon reports use all three to identify the location? I've never come across that before looking over AARs or Patrol Debriefs. Also, the frag order and subsequent previous projections of where the two teams, Grade Level and May Fly, were supposed to be inserted show them to be 2 clicks apart...but it looks, according to the Patrol Debrief June 22, 1969, that they were both put in at the same LZ. I wonder why that changed from two LZs to one...something lost to history? The Planned Inserts show two potential LZs: i.e. 3. GRADE LEVEL (8 MEN) HAVEN (UL ZC0287, LR ZC0485) and 4. MAY FLY (8 MEN) HAVEN (UL ZC0487, LR ZC0685). That's where I'm getting the 2 clicks apart info....okay, what does UL and LR mean? I know one must be the primary LZ while the other is the alternate in case the first LZ is inaccessible for some reason. I just don't know y'all's nomenclature. Also, the HMM-165 aircraft...was that Cattle Call? and the 'cobras' were HML-364 Scarface cobras? I have Mann's Patrol Debrief of Evans and his squad some I'm copasetic on the survivors on the ground report of that day. Appreciate any help you can give me.
Turning to another question on Nov. 18, 1970 when Team Rush Act perished...would you happen to know the first names of Mission Impossible/Wage Earner Docs Wager or West? I know I probably asked this of you before, but perhaps you have a better information base now. Semper Fi, Dan

Richard Brown

Looking for Edward Miller from Milwaukee, WI, Geronimo Mercado from New Jersey, Angel Castro from the Bronx, D.A. Jensen from Iowa, are just a few of the guys i am looking for. They are in my address book from 1968 to 1970 vietnam. If you remember me, contact me.
Richard A. Brown

Brian Huddleston

Anyone know a Recon Marine, Albert Jackson, served circa 1972-1973,
from New Orleans? You meet a lot of BS artists here, but this homeless
guy volunteered the above details without any prompting and without my
saying that I was also a Recon Marine, albeit from another generation.
He said he couldn't remember his unit and mentioned details about both
San Diego and Norfolk (and mentioned Rota, Spain). He's pretty
mentally gone, so who knows where he may have picked up some random
bits of information. But parts of his story sounds legit.
Thanks!