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COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [FLC]

Document Item Number: 120101109032
Pages
56
Media Type
Document
Credit
Courtesy the Marine Corps History Division
Information removed from digital copy?
Yes
Physical Location
Box 01, Folder 109,
Copyright Statement
Declassified by the USMC History Division
Language(s)
English
Collection
US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection

120101109032 pdf
Dates
Existence: March 1969
General Note
FLC (Force Logistic Command)
Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC)

FLC Hot Items Status ;

Supporting Art for Press Release - Official USMC Photo with caption:
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NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE STATION - Photo 1-0505-69 - Operated by FLC's bulk fuel section, this is the service station for Marines involved in Operation Taylor Common at An Hoa. (Photo by LCPL Gary Gunn) ;
GETTIN' READY - Photo 1-0566-69 - Two members of the Air Delivery Platoon (CPL Reginaldo Edocld and LCPL Carl C. Keenan) at DaNang Air Base prepare another pallet of essential combat supplies for parachute drop to infantry units. (Photo by LCPL Trygg Hansen) ;
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MUSEUM BOUND - Photo 2-0657-69 - A captured 122mm Russian-made field gun is prepared for transport to the Marine Corps Musuem, Quantico, Virginia, by PFC Ronald Dupl[?] of FLC's Preservation, Packaging and Packing Platoon. The weapon was captures by C. co, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division in the A Shau Valley in February 1969. (Photo by CPL Bruce Chertkow) ;
PUTTING THEM AWAY - Photo 4-0693-69 - A Marine storage clerk at the new III MAF Transient Center finds an empty cubbyhole for a Marien's personal gear while he's on R&R leave. (Photo by CAPT Douglas Menely) ;
EASILY INSTALLED - Photo 1-0657-69 - Inserting the M-16 rifle's new safety plug, designed by GYSGT J. P. Bell to help eliminate accidental discharges with the automatic weapon. (Photo by CPL Bruce chertkow) ;
NETS OF SPLENDOR - [photo info illegible] ;
[Marine with hand gun crawling out of hillside tunnel] [no photo info] ;
BUNKERS EYE-VIEW - Photo [illegible] - Marines from Delta Co, 1st Military Police Bn, keep a close watch around Cam Lo Bridge near DaNang, an area which has seen heavy fighting in a major Viet Cong post-Tet offensive. (Photo by LCPL Gary Gunn) ;
[Marines on patrol] [photo info illegible] ;
A GRAND NEW FLAG - Sergeant Major Milton Gardner display's his own creation, a Sergeant Major's flag. (Photo by LCPL John Volpe) ;
CHECKING IN - [photo info illegible] ;
[Marines and gear along road in front of line of buildings] [photo info illegible] ;
[2-story wooden barracks and men working on it] [photo info illegible] ;
SNACK BAR - Photo 6-0693-69 - III MAF Transient Facility snack bar serves approximately 15,000 service personnel going on R&R each month, and 500-700Marines arriving and 600 departing each day. (Photo by CAPT Douglas Menely) ;
[view of inside the III MAF snack bar?] [photo info illegible] ;
[BALANCING ACT] - Photo 1-0695-69 - A 1401 IBM computer is eased into FLSG-B's Data Processing Platoon Computer Center at Quang Tri Combat Base. (Photo by LCPL Trygg Hansen) ;
INVENTORY - Photo [?]-0697-69 - CPL Edward G. McDaniel takes inventory of 500-pound bombs at Ammunition Supply Point. (Photo by LCPL John Volp) ;
[Vietnamese civilians standing on dock ramp] [photo info illegible] ;
[Marine manning .50 cal. machine gun on ring mount - convoy?] [photo info illegible] ;
[RIVER TRANSPORT?] photo info illegible] ;
[truck convoy] [photo info illegible] ;
[FLC field laundry, Marine removing clothing from industrial washing machine] [photo info illegible] - (Photo by CAPT Douglas Menely) ;
[Marine doing maintenance on track vehicle?] [photo info illegible] ;
[Two Marines doing maintenance on tracked vehicle?] [Photo by CAPT Douglas Menely) ;
IN EVERY CLIME AND PLACE - Photo 1-0748-69 - PFC Paul Hadley looks at billboard with 24-sheet recruiting poster erected by SGT Milton B. Gardner. (Photo by PFC Dan Hall) ;
ANOTHER STEP CLOSER - Photo 2-0815-[69] - Combat supplies are unloaded from FLSG-Alpha trucks at Camp Muir (formerly Hill 55) for Marines taking part in Operation Oklahoma Hills. (Photo by LCPL Nick Myers) ;
QUICK EYE SPOTS PROBLEM - Photo 1-0836-69 - CPL Nathaniel Price spots a mminor problem as he check a 50mm mortar tube at Vandegrift Combat Base. Price is a member of FLSG-Bravo's small arms repair team sent to repair weapons of the 3rd Bn, 9th Marine Regiment, after Operation Dewey Canyon. (Photo by LCPL Roger K. Nystrom) ;
A NEW HOME - Father Nguyen Than Hoan, director of the Dong Ha Orphanage and Marine Colonel H. L. Parsons, commanding officer of FLSG-B, preside at the opening-day ribbon-cutting ceremony. (Photo by LCPL Trygg Hansen) ;

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Citation
COMMAND CHRONOLOGY [FLC], 120101109032. March 1969, Box 01, Folder 109, US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=120101109032, Accessed 22 Dec 2025.
Pub Credit Line
120101109032, US Marine Corps History Division Vietnam War Documents Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
Added: 12 Jun 2005 [Updated: 23 Dec 2024]

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