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After graduating from TBS, I reported for flight training at Pensacola, and was designated a Naval Aviator on my birthday, June 5, 1969; and joined HMM-261 at MCAS (H),

– I came to the Marine Corps in a peculiar way, primarily through the agency of my father who had been a Marine infantry platoon commander in the Pacific in World War II and apparently wanted me to do everything that he had done.