Balancing Act

The Lull Before the Storm

Team 1A2

Jim Hunter supplied this Picture of Team 1A2, waiting at the pad for insertion. We would like to place names to the faces and any other information, ie: call sign, pictures and stories of their patrols.
I have a large picture of this team but its size (4megs) is too big to place in this format.

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Team 2A2

Sgt. George Lande

This is a picture of Sgt. Lande holding his Navy Commendation Medal. George used to get a lot of "grief" due to his earning four (4!) Purple Hearts.
Sgt. Lande was quite an outrageous and humorous Marine, and was also a competent and well-respected team leader. George was due to rotate soon; but, on the 8th of June '69, he volentarily joined a 10-man SID patrol inside the DMZ because of his experience in the area. The team ran into "some" NVA and George was hit. Corpsman Ken Sawyer advised that he was able to get George medivaced on a Scarface gunship to the hospital ship but he died three days later.
George is probably still pulling jokes and trying to recon Heaven. He is the pure example of the Marine Corps Motto. "Semper Fi, George"!

Short Timer

This is Corporal "?", the Dustlite 2A2 Team Leader.

This is what a Recon Marine does when he's too short to go to the field. Would like to know more about him.
 

Corrigan

Recon Team Member "Corrigan". Anyone have any other information about him, let me know.

Williams

"Will" Williams and an unknown Team Member.

Let's get some more information about these two Marines. Who, what, where they were from, where they are now, etc.

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Unknown and Kit Carson Scout

2A2 Hooch

This picture was provided by Jim Hunter. He believes it is a picture of the Kit Carson Scout (on the right) and he's not sure of the Marine (any help?).

The only Scout that Hunter can really remember was the one assigned to Team 1A2. That Scout stands out in his memory "since he had to be at least 60 years old."
What's that old saying? "Old Soldier's never die, they just smell that way?" Oh well.

Team 3A2

Nothing here yet. Looking forward to any information coming in.

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Other Pictures and Stories from 2nd Platoon

Nothing more yet. Will add as it comes in!

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Biographical Information

The Pictures supplied as of April 20^th, 1999 are from Jim Hunter (1A2).

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Other Links

We'll be placing links to other sites here. They will include sites of possible interest as to other Marine sites, Vietnam and other unit locations that Recon may have worked with while in country. Semper Fi.

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Other Links

Last Revised: April 21, 1999