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Association Purpose

Reuniting all eras of Marine Corps' 1st Recon Battalion, including members of the 1st Force Recon Company, Deep Reconaissance Platoon and the Amphibious Recon Company. Membership into this association of special warriors is free. The association's "Patrol Report" is published twice yearly with reunion information and other Recon news. Join by clicking on the Aplication link on the left.

Commemorative Bricks

Commemorative Bricks will line the winding pathways in the Semper Fidelis Memorial Park. 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Association members, family and friends are invited to donate a commemorative brick to honor a reconnaissance Marine or Corpsman, living or deceased. 1st Recon Commemorative Bricks will be placed along the pathway in front and around our memorial. The Association is collecting 1st Recon commemorative brick donations and inscriptions and submitting them to the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. Commemorative bricks may be ordered through the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Association with a donation of $210.00 for each brick plus $5.00 for related postage with each order of one or more bricks.

Brick Engraving Guidelines. Each brick may have no more than three lines; each line may be 20 characters in length (a character includes all letters, punctuations and spaces). Each line must end with a complete word or name (words and names will not be hyphenated and continued on the next line). You may purchase as many bricks as you like. Examples of commemorative brick inscriptions are provided below.

         In Memory Of                                    Sgt Tom Jones
Capt John Smith USMC                         C Co, 1st Recon Bn
         1944-1969                                        Vietnam 1969-70

Order your Commemorative Brick(s) and submit your contact information (name, mailing address, phone number(s), and email address) along with a check or money order and your brick inscription to the 1st Recon Battalion Association at the address below. The MC Heritage Foundation will provide a proof copy of each brick inscription before it is engraved. Ensure you send your contact information in case there are questions about your inscription. Thank you for your support of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion Memorial and Commemorative Bricks. Commemorative Brick check or money order donations should be made out to: 1st Recon Battalion Association. Send your contact information with your $215.00 donation and brick inscription to: 1st Recon Battalion Association, c/o C. Kershaw, 2527 Unicornio Street, Carlsbad, CA 92009. Call or email Charlie Kershaw with brick questions at: 760 402-8638 or c2k2@earthlink.net.

To find someone you served with

If you know their name click on the appropriate letters under Member, Alphabetical.
If you can's remember names click on the appropriate Company under Members, By Company. If you find someone whose email address is bad or not listed cross reference their name in the Alphabetical member listings.

2012 Birthday Cruise

2011 Birthday Cruise After Action Report

Larry Gifford's Thin Man patrol Account

Texas Pete Patrol March 2, 1968

Col. Fred Vogel's 2000 Birthday Ball Speech

Hugh Campbell's Recon Reflections Newsletter

Gordon Ryan Bravo 63

Check out Gordon Ryan's latest book in two volumes. The protagonist is a Marine. Click on links.
State of Rebellion, A Pug Connor Novel, Book One
Uncivil Liberties, A Pug Connor Novel, Book Two
Gordon Ryan Author Web Site
Gordon Ryan Author Videos

Mike Schneider 1969-1970

Swift, Silent and Deadly: Recon Marines in Vietnam Click on links.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/swift-silent-and-deadly?store=ebook

http://www.amazon.com/Swift-Silent-Deadly-Marines-ebook/dp/B0051P2RWI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1308589578&sr=8-2

The above links are to an ebook I recently published on Nook and Kindle. The book was written for the juvenile/young adult market. I completed writing the book in 2004 but have never been able to attract a publisher or even convince a literary agent to promote it. I finally decided to publish it as an ebook.

Books I & II, American Heroes:

Grunts, Pilots & "Docs"

by Michael Dan Kellum, 1stLt. and former PFC, USMCR

A 2-book series about Marine Grunts and Recon, Pilots and their crews and the "Docs," the Navy Corpsmen, who worked alongside them all. These books are a 21-year project to gather research material, interview Marines and Navy Corpsmen and finally the writing. Approximately 1,019 Marines and 42 Navy Corpsmen are the focus of Books I and II with personnel from other service making up another 40 or so mentioned. 1st Recon Bn. in 1969-70 in Nam is the main focus of the Recon stories...some of the Reconners mentioned include Lt.Col. Bill Drumright, Lt.Col. Bill Leftwich Jr., Cpl. Larry Feldman, Gunny Terry Moore, SSgt. John Hare, Cpl. Bob Morris, Doc Thurman Mullins, Doc David Snider, 2ndLt. Tony Kupka, 1stLt. Chip Gregson and many more. For more information on who's in the books and some excerpts and photos go to my website at www.michaeldankellum.com and see the Indexes for both books. The website also contains the ordering and pricing form. Any additional questions about the books contact Michael Dan Kellum at kdkellum@aol.com The publisher is Navarro-Hill Publishing Group, P.O. Box 1088, Longview, TX 75606

Sample Stories

David Snider         John Bowcock         Manuel Garcia

Gary Husar            Chuck Fenwick        Michael Harder

Bob Bruno              Michael Holmes      Doug Wolfe

Paul Young            Will Aalbertsberg    Leonel Perez

Robert Farmer      Randy Kendall         Lennie Miller

Bill Davison            Robert Luster          Clint Howard

Bill Hatten                Mark Puig            John C. Minahan

Member Sites

Will Thiery          Glen Holthaus        Brian Riley         Gary Husar

Ray Hildreth       Steve Andrews      Jim Batts     Curtis Gruetzmacher

Harry Hayes        Ray Bael            Robert Tracy           Dalton Sportswear

Arthur Lipper         R.E. Sullivan       Terry Novak       Richard Hall

Chuck Fenwick      Michael Clark       Bill Woodier      Michael Rosendahl

Doug Springer     Larry Keen           Joe Welock         John Holton

Jason Swarr        Jim Tartanto       David Wilson       Tom Hyder

Frank Rego          Frank Eddy          Gordon Ryan       Paul Porter

Dwight Griffin       Eric Sims             Joseph Taussig     Floyd Ruggles

Maurice Nay       Jim Barta               Joe Orsen

Michael LoGiudice     Arron Barringer

Contact The 6 to have your site listed.

Memorial Fund Bracelets

1st Recon Battalion Association Memorial Fund Bracelets with the names of all our fallen comrades are available for sale. Memorial Bracelets may be purchased for $20.00 each and by name requests are $25.00 each. All monies from the sale of these bracelets go to the Memorial Fund.
Orders and by name requests, with a mailing address, may be sent to
Bob Morris
7570 46th Ave N. #144
St Petersburg, Fl. 33709
Cayenne6@peoplepc.com

Send a self addressed stamped envelope and make checks/money orders payable to: 1st Recon Bn Association.

A-2 Snakeaters

Alpha 2nd Plt. & Delta 1st and 2nd Plt. 2006
Submited by Justin Honcoop Alpha 2nd Plt. 05 - 09

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Alpha Ace & The Stanley Cup

July 07 Alpha Ace pictured with the 07 Stanley Cup and three of the players from the Champion California Ducks. Flick courtesy of Seth Vance. Alpha 06/08 and Force Co. 08/09.

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