1LT.
AMOS MARK CRAIGE
Born
on Mar. 15, 1948
From SELINGROVE, PENNSYLVANIA
Casualty was on Oct. 12, 1970
in QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
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Amos
Craige
(Picture
courtesy of close friend, Stephen N. Henderson)
1Lt. Amos Craige served with the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, Kilo Company in Vietnam. He was Killed In Action 12 October 1970 in an explosion that also killed SSgt. Theodore Texas Rowley, HN3 Michael Borg, and wounded a few others. Semper fi, Brother Marine, we will never forget.
Basic School classmate
To the best of my knowledge, Amos Craige was the only member of Basic Officers Class 3-70 killed in action in Vietnam. Most of us had our Vietnam orders cancelled immediately prior to graduation, and very few of us made it in-country. I regret to say that I don't recall much about him at TBS, but his name remains with me forever. His untimely death was a loss to his family, to our country and to our Corps. May God bless him and keep him forever.
Joe
Waldron, LtCol USMC(ret)
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We served together
I remember in TBS at Quantico, when Mark fell into Beaver Dam Run in January of 1970 while practicing river crossings. It was funny at the time. It was so sad to hear that he was killed.
L.
L. Cebula, LtCol USMCR (retired)
SSGT.
THEODORE TEXAS ROWLEY
Born
on Mar. 4, 1943
From CHILLICOTHE, OHIO
Casualty was on Oct. 12, 1970
in QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
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HN3
MICHAEL ROYCE BORG
Born
on Jan. 31, 1951
From TUCSON, ARIZONA
Casualty was on Oct. 12, 1970
in QUANG NAM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
OTHER EXPLOSIVE DEVICE
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We served together
Michael and I served together with Ron Searcy and other hospital corpsmen, and with Miss Murphy and Miss Corbusier, in the Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Ward at the US Navy Hospital in Oakland, CA for several months before he went to Camp Pendleton and then on to Vietnam. I came to admire his skills and the rapport he could develop with his patients, but he had hoped to put those qualities to better use in the war zone saving lives. I considered him my friend, and have thought of him often over the last 31 years.
Ray McGuire
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(Kilo
3/5 emblem by Vic Vilionis, 7th Marines)
(FMF Corpsman emblem by Redeye)