11-3-15 Entries by BC Texting with Marine Capt. Chas Stevens ’67 BGSU OXMustered out of El Toro 3-15-70. Spent 3 mos there w no car after returning from Vietnam on LSD’s (3) full of equipment and a few enlisted Marines, 1 Major and 1st Lt (me) for 30 days with 3rd Marine Div. 3rd MT Btln and much more stuff. Embark Officer (me) too!Dropped Div/Btln flags in Okinawa and pulled into Camp Pendleton at 0 dark thirty Dec. 15, 1969. No one there except a Marine Captain! Total top secret? Flew home for Christmas and back to get OUT! What a 3 yr oddessy! Got personal Navy Commendation decoration w combat V and some other stuff. Too funny!Got dropped after 3rd down with 3/4 completion from RIO flt school (F4 backseat) at NAS Glynco in spring of ’68. Back to Quanitco for summer TBS as a 1st Lt! Hot Hot! And on to New Bern NC for MT school! Shit bird MOS. Off to Vietnam as Company Commander 3rd Mar Div, 3rd MT BN B Company. Northern I Corps south of DMZ way west, Vandegrift Combat Base (old LZ Stud). Fun&Games supporting 3rd & 9th Marine grunts! 125 guys in B Company. We got everybody as last in country in 1968-69. Pulled out Nov ’69 for Navy LSD boats (3) in Dong Ha Harbor for Okinawa & Camp Pendleton. I was on flag ship USS Comstock with Major. We stood watches with the black-shoes officers on the bridge. Very mundane duty. 30 f’en days.