Retraction of tentative identity of 2nd. lieutenant #4 on Armed Forces Day posting for May, 21, 2006:

Now changed to UNKNOWN, as it was not Officer B

Officer B was not assigned to Fox Co., 2nd Bn. Ist Marines, rather he was assigned in 1968 to Hotel Company, 2nd. Bn. 27th Regimental Landing team. While we were at Ha Dong Bridge Officer B got bored and drunk one night and tried to call in artillery on our perimeter, with the result that one Staff Sergeant (E-6) Vasquez put into motion the necessary steps to have him relieved.

Officer B was duly re-assigned to the 3rd Bn. 27th RLT and was subsequently awarded the Silver Star for leading a counterattack against an oncoming wave of NVA/PAVN Bo-doi "infantry" on Og Noi Island.

His dad, a brigadier general in some other branch of the military, made the award in person, back stateside, while the Leatherneck Magazine photographer present made sure, while showing Officer B on crutches, that we couldn't see why: he'd lost his lower legs in a machine gun, or automatic rifle burst. One helluva story. Life, or at least his military career, over by age 22 or 23.

Sorry for the mix up!