Randy Pelt Randy Pelt, Mike and India 3/5 I was a mustang. I went through Parris Island in 1967 (Platoon 1085), and went to Vietnam as a PFC in '68.  I ended up in K 3/26. After being medevaced to the States from a gunshot, I went through the 52nd Special OCS class in July '68. This class was made up of 90% former enlisted.   Next, I went through the Basic School at Quantico (D Company, Class 4-69).  Assigned an infantry MOS, I spent 4 months with the 28th Marines at Pendleton. There, I was a platoon commander with E Company (the unit that raised the flag on IWO).     I had a slot to go through the AO school at mainside Pendleton flying back seat in OV-10's, but I lost it when I got orders back to WesPac. I returned to Vietnam in August '69, and was a platoon commander with India Company until I was medevaced (shrapnel) in November.   I spent 6 weeks in Yokosuka, Japan, and when I returned in December, G-2 tried to talk me into going to a CAAP unit in Quang Tri Province.  I politely declined, and asked to go back to 3/5.  By this time I was a 1/Lt and was assigned to Mike Co. as XO.   I talked Lt. Clair into letting me have 3rd Platoon when the platoon commander slot opened up.  (Still got stuck with the XO duties.)  When Lt. Lewis left in July '70, I took over as CO.  The first day I took over, Mike 2 got several NVA kills on Charlie Ridge. (Way to go Mike 2!)  I don't think Ted Lewis ever forgave me for that.  :-)  Since I was due to rotate home in early September, I was replaced by Capt. Hill on Aug. 25, and I stayed with the company in the field breaking in the new skipper.  When he was medevaced on Aug. 27, I again assumed command of Mike until September 7.  I then rotated home late, but it was worth it.   I spent the next year as the CO of a training company at ITR, Camp Lejeune.  I made captain about a month before I got off active duty.  I stayed in the reserves about 3 years in a Motor T maintenance unit, but those guys weren't grunts.  Today, I work at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA as the director of fiscal operations for information systems.~Randy Pelt   Randy (left) and 3 LTs, Yosuku, Japan '69     Left: Mike Company area at An Hoa Center: Artillery strike in the Phu Nhuans Far left: Mike 3 in the Arizona, April/May 1970 Left: Hill 65, June 1970 Right: Hootch above Liberty Bridge  Left: April 1970, Liberty Bridge Center: An Hoa from the air Right: An Hoa February 1970   Left: A Dud RPG round (April 1970) exactly the way it fell Right: Hill 52 in April 1970 Mike 3/5 Website (Background and title by Redeye)