1st platoon charlie comp. 1st divi.my dad was in the vietnam war. he passed away last year and i miss him so much! i am trying to get as much info as possible, what he did there exactly. he was in the “jungle” killed some vietcong, how many i dont know. i didnt get to ask him all the things i wanted to. growing up i didnt talk about it because he was living with p/t/s/d. and daddy doesnt want his little girl to hear those things but now i am starving for this knowledge. i know that he has had best friends die along side of him and i know that the 1st platoon did more “front line killing” basically those titles have special meanings as to what he did there and i want to know desperatly, he was very proud to be a marine even though they were treated horrible when they came home from that war, he lived the saying “USMC TO THE END” if anyone that was there knows those titles or even my dad Dennis G. Klein please give me some info on this thank you from a proud daughter of a marine !!
you would be better served to inquire of any of the men he served with.you may or may not get accurate answers on here.
failing that ,if you can find anyone who was a grunt and spent time in the bush,you will get a general idea of what it was like.
war is war and only the location and times change.
ask any combat vet you can find and the experiences will be similiar.