Flight Time (3rd Reconnaissance Battalion)

Flight Time
Team Picture
Active2 June 1969 – 4 June 1969
CountryVietnam Vietnam
AllegianceUnited States United States
BranchUnited States Marine Corps
TypeReconnaissance
RolePatrol/Renconnaissance
Size6
MottoCeler Mortalis Silens
Colors
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Stanley Kozlowski

Recon team "Flight Time", D Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, was the last full team from the United States Marine Corps 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion to be killed in action during the Vietnam War, on 4 June 1969.

Last mission

On 2 June 1969 Recon Team "Flight Time" from D Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, was inserted on Hill 471 about a kilometer south of Khe Sanh in the Quảng Trị province, Vietnam, On the night of 3/4 June 1969 the team was attacked by an enemy force and requested both emergency extraction and immediate reinforcement. Communications with the team were lost at 0320. When the reactionary force arrived a little after 0400 they found the six members of "Flight Time" dead. Five members of the team were in a small trench; the sixth, Cpl. Buck, was approximately 10 meters further down the hillside.

Flight Time members

USMC 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion and Team "Flight Time" Monument Ocala, Florida

See also

References

  1. ↑ "3d Reconnaissance Battalion. 3d Marine Division" (PDF). Vietnam Archive. 1969. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Recollections Of Vietnam". 3rd Reconnaissance Association. 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  3. ↑ "Michael Maurice O'Connor". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  4. ↑ "William Andrew Buck, JrO'Connor". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "William Martin Wellman, Jr". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  6. ↑ "Douglas Wanner Barnitz". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  7. ↑ "Robert Leslie Pearcy". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.
  8. ↑ "Harold Alonzo Skaggs". The Vietnam Veterans Memorial "Virtual Wall". 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2010.

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